reART:theURBAN is an international conference that will revolve around the question of what art can do for the development of the urban society and the city itself. It will take place from 25th to 27th of october 2012 at the venues of the theatre Gessnerallee Zürich. The conference is organized by trans4mator and the team of the research project Re/Occupation, which is located at the Institute for Critical Theory (ith) of Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and in collaboration with the Master of Arts in Transdisciplinarity. Furthermore, one of the conference panels will be organized by the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich, and another one by INURA –the International Network of Urban Research and Action.