A conversation between Álvaro Siza, Claudia Perren and Sergei Tchoban, moderated by Matthias Sauerbruch, on the occasion of the exhibition opening SIZA - UNSEEN & UNKNOWN at the Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing. Partners:Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin
Extrovert Interior
The past decade has seen the museum transform from a physical space for artifacts to a dynamic institution hosting events, discourse, and experiences, blurring boundaries with urban spaces and other cultural venues, raising questions about democratising knowledge, challenging urban centrality, redefining publicness, and impacting the role of architecture in museum design. Partners:Centre for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
MUSEUM AS ACTIVATOR
There is a tendency in Germany and Australia for museums to transform the cultural context, and both countries face a need for strategies to address ownership as well as social and cultural integration in the city and the peripheries. The two-day symposium enabled a broad dialogue to include cultural experts, city planners, architects, artists and curators. Partners:Australian Government as part of the cultural initiative Australia now Germany 2017, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
SPACE ON DEMAND
A dialogue between Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, New York and Chris Dercon, Director Volksbühne Berlin, on the occasion of the exhibition opening SPACE ON DEMAND.
CONSTRUCTING CULTURE
The West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong is one of the world’s largest and most ambitious cultural projects. The Exhibition Talk explores the development and the urban strategies of the new district.
Museums and Cultural Spaces
ANCB conceptualised this international symposium accompanying the exhibition V.D.H.N. URBAN PHENOMENON at the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, to critically reflect on the role of museums today. Partners:Ministry of Culture of the Government of Moscow
Zài Xīng Tǔ Mù. Sixteen Chinese Museums, Fifteen Chinese Architects
China is an outstanding example of a new 'museum boom'. The exhibition reflects on the physical and curatorial positioning of museums as drivers of progress within the socio-political and cultural landscape of China today. Partners:Zumtobel, Dornbirn
Museum Revisited
The kick off Lab Talk of the programme Museum of the 21st Century, which examines the relationship and interaction between museums, urban space, culture, economy and society. Partners:Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Designing Educational Facilities
The public opening session kicks off a four-day conference and frames the dialogue around the conference theme of major educational facilities in and around Berlin, exploring their history, planning, and design process. Partners:American Institute of Architects
