Layers of Time by Julio Gotor Valcarcel at MAO Slovenia
The opening of the architectural intervention Layers of Time by Julio Gotor Valcarcel at MAO Slovenia, June 20th 2019.
The Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) opened the renovated courtyard of the renaissance Fužine Castle, thus entering a vibrant summer season. The author of this intervention is Julio Gotor Valcarcel, his proposal is understood as the addition of new layers of time.
His idea is a simple, delicate proposal, according to the present reality of the castle and its use. In a nutshell, the intervention dialogues with these temporary layers which have shaped the reality of the castle, and their duration. The courtyard and corridors are closed during the hottest months of the year: a series of retractable awnings allowing different positions depending on the programme. The proposal includes the use of curtains in the corridors next to the courtyard. A collection of flexible elements is displayed, vegetation and furniture.
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Video: Vojdan Babunski
Lecture by Barry Bergdoll about three great architects of European architecture in the 19th Century
Barry Bergdoll: Henri Labrouste, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Heinrich Hübsch and Architectural Romanticism in the 19th Century
Lecture, 26. 2. 2014, 7 pm
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
within the accompanying programme of the exhibition: 19th Century Architecture in Slovenia
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Barry Bergdoll, Professor of 19th- and 20th-century Architectural History at Columbia University and curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in his lecture accompanying the exhibition 19th-century Architecture juxtaposed three greats of European architecture of the period: German architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Heinrich Hübsch, and the French Henri Labrouste.
The rich theoretical and practical work of these architects reveals key questions raised by architecture in the 19th century. Romanticism, which in art represents an escape from the modern reality of the 19th century, the industrial revolution, population growth and urbanization, emerges in architecture as the revival of Gothic architecture and brings appreciation for the picturesque beauty of Medieval ruins. The subject notably led to debate between proponents of classicist and historicist architectures. Though Hübsch, in his book In welchem Style sollen wir bauen? primarily wished to critique classicist architecture, the work is remembered for introducing the issue of style as an architectural problem of the 19th century. In Schinkel, style issues reflect already in his opus, as he traversed from his early classicist style across a Neo-Gothic one, ultimately transcending them both by embracing the clean strokes of modernism developing in the 20th century. Here, Labrouste went even further, as he is counted among the rare architects of the 19th century whose heroic stature persisted throughout the periods, which can largely be attributed to the fact he shed light on the still-relevant exploration of new relationships between architectural form and technology.
Barry Bergdoll is a Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and the curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. His broad interests center on modern architectural history with an emphasis on the development of architecture in France and Germany between 1750 and 1900. Mr. Bergdoll's research is closely intertwined with cultural history and the history and sociology of professions, in particular the role of knowledge in the development of professionalism. He has studied questions of the politics of cultural representation in architecture, the broader ideological aspects of 19th- century architectural theory, and the changing role of architecture both as a profession as well as a cultural product of 19th-century European society. His interests also include the relationship between architecture and new technologies (and eventually cultures) of representation in the modern period, especially photography and film.
Professor Bergdoll has worked on several film productions about architecture, in addition to curating a number of exhibitions concerned with the history and problematics of exhibiting architecture, and the history of museological practices in relation to architecture. He is the author of numerous books, catalogues and other publications.
Ana Kutleša | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Ana Kutleša, [BLOK], Zagreb, Hrvaška
„Public space is a battleground
„Public space is a battleground, argues Chantal Mouffe in her essay Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces, suggesting that conflict, rather than peaceful coexistence, is what makes a space public. The problem is that the dominant ideology tends to blur different conflicted positions, pacify them and make them invisible. Precisely here Mouffe sees a potential for art to foment dissensus, [to] make visible what the dominant consensus tends to obscure and obliterate. How is this potential realized in a specific curatorial and artistic practice? What does it mean to leave the gallery space in order to act in what is generally known as public space, i.e. the public urban environment? Various projects produced by [BLOK] show that without the neutrality-illusion of the white cube and its fine filtering of the audience, it is more likely that art will start to, maybe even unpurposely make visible what was previously hidden. In the process, questions concerning spatial politic inevitably arise, opening up new ways in which we can think the connection between art, urban space and public space in a wider sense.
Ana Kutleša is a member of the curatorial collective [BLOK], which operates in the interspace between art, urbanism and activism, organising lectures, exhibitions, long-term research projects and publications in and about public space. Ana Kutleša co-curated 4 editions of UrbanFestival, a festival of artistic interventions in public space. Currently she is working on the 13th edition of the festival, entitled Back to the Square!
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Ethel Baraona Pohl | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Ethel Baraona Pohl, dpr-barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
It's the economy, stupid!
Money [or the lack of] and public space.
We're facing new ways of thinking, trading, and acting. On this new context, the first step when moving forward should be to realize that in the end, the crisis is just a way of governing and it's up to us to legitimate it or not. This metamorphosis of recent years in the architectural practice has resulted in new ways of production, open source platforms, DIY (Do it yourself) and DIWO (Do it with others) and new technologies to implement small-scale designs that can be catalyst for larger-scale impact, accompanied by innovative economic models that has emerged in the past years, such as local production, crowdfunding, micropayments and social money. Possibilities are endless if we realize that there are now more tools than ever before, bringing more people together from all four corners of the world.
However, these forms of influence in the public space also open the door to large uncertainties. Interestingly, the question that emerges is about how to transform this dizzying abundance of bottom-up projects to provoke real structural changes in the system we live in.
Ethel Baraona Pohl is a critic, blogger and curator [but she prefers Professional Amateur]. She is a co-founder of dpr-barcelona and editor of Quaderns. She was Associate Curator for the Adhocracy exhibition, first commissioned for the Istanbul Design Biennial in 2012, also exhibited at The New Museum, NYC, and at Lime Wharf LONDON in 2013. Currently she and César Reyes Nájera are curating the third Think Space programme with the theme 'Money'.
dpr-barcelona.com
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Marko Sančanin, Ricardo Gomes, Matevž Čelik | What's going on? | talk
Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Marko Sančanin | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Marko Sančanin, Platforma 9.81, Zagreb, Croatia
Whatever Works : Public Space and Possibility of Social Experience
Nowadays when we recall successful examples of XX century public spaces and their respective everyday urban practices, we tend to forget a simple historical fact: What we call a good public space from the mid sixties onward, was a result of cultural, political and economic contingencies that were already in its decadent stage compared to vitality and potential of modern public life at the end of XIX century.
What human civilization experienced in the past 150 years of industrial urbanity might be primarily a process that is today characterized by disappearance of public man and drowning of political culture in narcissism of particular interests; with political state programmatically neutral and indifferent to industry of identities and abstaining from passing a judgment on the cultural choices; institutions failing to promote a new model of togetherness; representative democracy actually weakening civil participation while disenfranchized population finds common interest only in consumption of urban standards.
However, practitioners that investigate, promote, organize or design new types of public spaces are aware of the context but often operate in somewhat openly opportunistic way. They both make contemporary context transparent while trying to turn negative circumstances into advantages and platforms for common action. I will show couple of research and collective design projects that while experimenting with new types of public spaces contributed to defining contemporary social experience.
Marko Sančanin studied political science and architecture. His research, theoretical work and design deal with new concepts of spatial justice, socially sustainable development and cultural heritage. Sančanin is a columnist and radio host on architecture, urban planning and culture. From 2000 to 2013 he was the director of Platforma 9,81 -- an Institute for Research in Architecture. The Institute explores the spatial implications of shifting political, economic and cultural identities in post-socialist SEE.
platforma981.hr
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Rianne Makkink | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Rianne Makkink, Studio Makkink & Bey, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rianne Makkink is an architect who heads Studio Makkink & Bey, together with her partner Jurgen Bey. The ambition of Studio Makkink & Bey is to see the role of the designer expanded to the most strategic function possible. The studio works in various domains of applied art and includes public space projects, product design, architecture, exhibition design and applied arts. Currently Rianne Makkink is a mentor of the Affordable Living Group at BIO 50.
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
House D, Ljubljana
House D, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Architecture: Bevk Perović Arhitekti (Ljubljana 2007/2008)
SMALL AND SMART: EXPRESSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY SLOVENIAN ARCHITECTURE IN FILM
Architecture is not a static but a dynamic, living thing. Similarly film is highly suited to represent and experience architectures as spaces, as stages for human encounter and interaction. In this series of short films architecture becomes animated, even transformed, with social input. Similarly it serves to animate its viewers/occupants -- architecture as stage and actor both. (Good) built projects in Slovenia generally follow a well-thought and focused approach and execution. They are, relatively speaking, of modest size. They are small not in scale nor ambition -- but small as in contained, disciplined, intelligent and specifically responsive. With room for a smile.
Small and Smart consists of six short films, one of each of six built architectural projects. Each employs a simple story -- a development, an exchange -- to move through and relate the experience of the architecture. As the films move through and document the spaces and exchanges, certain key features of the architectures are revealed and emphasised. All architectures here are recent builds (2006 and later) and are of varied types, programs and scales: private house, row house, industrial facility, sacred, educational/institutional, public/sports. Together they reflect representative currents, developments and practices in the best of Slovenian architecture today.
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Curator: Jeff Bickert (ARK)
Production: Matjaž Ivanišin and Damjan Kozole, Vertigo Emotionfilm
Houses on Jurčkova Street, Ljubljana
Houses on Jurčkova Street, Jože Peterkoč (Ljubljana, 2009)
SMALL AND SMART: EXPRESSIONS OF CONTEMPORARY SLOVENIAN ARCHITECTURE IN FILM
Architecture is not a static but a dynamic, living thing. Similarly film is highly suited to represent and experience architectures as spaces, as stages for human encounter and interaction. In this series of short films architecture becomes animated, even transformed, with social input. Similarly it serves to animate its viewers/occupants -- architecture as stage and actor both. (Good) built projects in Slovenia generally follow a well-thought and focused approach and execution. They are, relatively speaking, of modest size. They are small not in scale nor ambition -- but small as in contained, disciplined, intelligent and specifically responsive. With room for a smile.
Small and Smart consists of six short films, one of each of six built architectural projects. Each employs a simple story -- a development, an exchange -- to move through and relate the experience of the architecture. As the films move through and document the spaces and exchanges, certain key features of the architectures are revealed and emphasised. All architectures here are recent builds (2006 and later) and are of varied types, programs and scales: private house, row house, industrial facility, sacred, educational/institutional, public/sports. Together they reflect representative currents, developments and practices in the best of Slovenian architecture today.
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Curator: Jeff Bickert (ARK)
Production: Matjaž Ivanišin and Damjan Kozole, Vertigo Emotionfilm
Lavinia Scaletti - Ljubljana: a city of centres (intro lecture)
The introduction lecture was part of DESIGN BIOTOP workshop: SPACE AND BEHAVIOUR
Design Biotop is an experiential workshop and discussion event that explores the problem solving and trans-disciplinary nature of design, and promotes a design thinking mindset to a country that is searching for design opportunity perspectives and its impact on economic growth. Its aim is to underline the connections between the design mindset, creative processes, education and decision making.
Design Biotop happened In Ljubljana, Slovenia from 26th to 28th October 2016 at MAO (Museum of Architecture and Design).
BIO, Possible Future
In 2014 the Museum of Architecture and Design celebrates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first international Biennial of Design, known as BIO. There have been 23 international BIO exhibitions in Ljubljana since 1964, and the 24th jubilee event offers us an opportunity not only to reflect on the past but also to look into the future.
Public discussion on about the challenges and opportunities facing the Biennial of Design in the future and how we can respond to the changes which both design and society are struggling with today.
The discussion was conducted by the Belgian critic and curator Jan Boelen, who is the director of Z33 - House for Contemporary Art, the head of the Master department Social Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (NL), the chairman of the Flemish Committee for Architecture and Design, and curator of this year's edition of Biennial of Design.
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture
bio.si
mao.si
Unfinished Slovenia | Nedokončana Slovenija
Talk | Pogovor, 18. 4. 2014, 19.00
Museum of Architecture and Design | Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana, Slovenija
architectuul.com, mao.si
Architecture in Slovenia carries the genes of the Austro-Hungarian craft schools, the Bauhaus tradition, Italian Rationalism as well as post-war socialist modernization in Yugoslavia. In collaboration with the 24th Biennial of Design and MAO the Architectuul kicked-off the Unfinished series in Slovenia to discuss the offspring of these genes, namely the status of contemporary architecture, from the rear mirror of a journey into the past.
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Slovenska arhitektura je bila pod močnim vplivom tako avstro-ogrskih obrtnih šol, principov Bauhausa kot tudi povojne jugoslovanske socialistične modernizacije. V sodelovanju z 24. bienalom oblikovanja in MAO je portal Architectuul pripravil predavanje Nedokončana Slovenija, v katerem so izpostavili položaj slovenske arhitekture danes, osvetlili nedokončane spomine, hkrati pa iskali podlago za nadaljnje korake in kreativne procese oblikovanja grajenega okolja.
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Lecturers | Predavatelji: Matevž Čelik (MAO), Miha Dešman (DANS arhitekti), Miha Turšič (KSEVT), Jurij Krpan (Galerija Kapelica). Moderated by Boštjan Bugarič (Architectuul).
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Organisation: Architectuul in cooperation with the Museum of Architecture and Design
Ricardo Gomes | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Ricardo Gomes, Planning for Protest, Berlin, Germany
Planning for Protest
Vocalizing a dissenting viewpoint in the face of untenable situations is at the core of protesting: in the past few years, there is a sense that such public disgust of local issues has networked into a global pandemic. We have seen mass protests in the streets of Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas, all ignited by various social ills. Planning for Protest came about as a conversation over what was happening in these flashpoints throughout the world, with a special focus on how the very spaces in which they took place helped to shape or form the success or failure of each cities' public mobilization. In as much as the mass convention of peoples creates the voice of these protests, we wanted to see how the streets, squares and buildings, form the backdrop of these protests' stages.
We asked 12 architectural offices to think clearly of what they saw in their streets as these protests rose and grew. From this, 12 different typologies of where, why, and how we protest formed. Their contributions show each protest as a unique moment that transpires when collective spirit fills the time-worn arteries of urban planning. Utilizing means both old and new, from changing the orientations of streets or using the internet as a vehicle for real-time intervention, their ideas exist as stratagems for future modes of protests. It would be wrong to think these will be the last. Their proposals show protests as an ongoing dialogue that not only endures but must go on.
Ricardo Gomes studied architecture in Lisbon and worked at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa and with the artist Olafur Eliasson in Berlin. He co-organized the Planning for Protest project, which through publication and an exhibition explores both the social and architectural definitions of protest in light of the current global financial crisis. Currently Ricardo Gomes is an assistant professor at the department of Digital and Experimental Design at the UDK in Berlin.
planningforprotest.org
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
BIO 23 exhibition: work in progress.
23rd Biennial of Design, Ljubljana, 27.9.-11.11.2012.
Museum of Architecture and Design.
BIO26 | Common Knowledge Exhibition Trailer
BIO26 | Common Knowledge, 26th Biennial of Design
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
14. 11. 2019—9. 2. 2020
Pavilion of Slovenia at La Biennale di Venezia 2018: Living with Water
MAO presents the project Living with Water in the Pavilion of Slovenia at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Commissioner and curator Matevž Čelik, director of the MAO, appointed a group of internationally acclaimed architects, landscape architects, researchers and educators, who applied for an open invitation to participate in the development of a joint presentation at the Pavilion of Slovenia. The multidisciplinary process of their work is presented in two installations.
A multidisciplinary team of 13 architects, landscape architects, urban planners, researchers and strategists explores and discusses the relationship between architecture and water, both past and present, as well as what a relationship should look like in the future. More at mao.si.
Credits:
Commissioner / Curator: Matevž Čelik
Exhibitors / Participants
Ana Abram – landscape architect / UK, Slovenia
Tim Daniel Battelino – architect / Slovenia
Bradley Cantrell - Chair and Professor at the UVa Department of Landscape Architecture / USA
Moa Carlsson – PhD Candidate in Architecture at MIT / UK, USA
Matt Choot- architect / USA
Nina Granda – architect, editor and curator / Slovenia
Matevž Granda – architect, editor / Slovenia
Ulrika Karlsson – architect / Sweden
David J Klein – research scientist, developer and advisor in neural computational approaches / USA
Miloš Kosec – architect, editor and publicist / UK, Slovenia
Maj Plemenitaš – inventor, researcher and academic / UK, Slovenia
Bika Rebek – architect / Slovenia, Austria, USA
Marta Vahtar – architect / Slovenia
Project collaborators: Ajda Bračič, Lucia Tahan, Andrej Stražišar, Emma Mendel
Commissioner’s assistant: Nikola Pongrac
Exhibition Design: Bika Rebek, Some Place
Graphic Design: Matevž Granda, Benja Pavlin
Supported by Republic of Slovenia, Ministry of Culture
Produced by MAO - Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana
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Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje (MAO) na 16. mednarodni razstavi arhitekture La Biennale di Venezia v Slovenskem paviljonu predstavlja projekt Živeti z vodo. Komisar, kustos in direktor MAO, Matevž Čelik, je imenoval skupino mednarodno priznanih arhitektov, krajinskih arhitektov, raziskovalcev in pedagogov, ki so se odzvali na vabilo za sodelovanje pri pripravi skupne predstavitve v Slovenskem paviljonu. Multidisciplinarni proces njihovega dela je predstavljen z dvema instalacijama in obsežno istoimensko publikacijo.
Multidisciplinarna skupina 13 arhitektov, krajinskih arhitektov, urbanistov, raziskovalcev in strategov odgovarja na vprašanja, kakšen je odnos med vodo in arhitekturo danes, kako so na to vplivala zgodovinska dejstva ter kako vodo v prihodnosti pripeljati v ospredje sprejemanja odločitev. Več na mao.si.
Sodelujoči:
Komisar/kustos: Matevž Čelik
Razstavljavci/udeleženci:
Ana Abram – krajinska arhitektka / Združeno kraljestvo, Slovenija
Tim Daniel Battelino – arhitekt / Slovenija
Bradley Cantrell – predstavnik in profesor oddelka krajinske arhitekture na univerzi v Virginiji (UVA)/ ZDA
Moa Carlsson – kandidatka v doktorskem programu arhitekture na Tehnološkem inštitutu Massachusettsa/ Združeno kraljestvo, ZDA
Matt Choot – arhitekt / ZDA
Nina Granda – arhitektka, urednica in kustosinja / Slovenija
Matevž Granda – arhitekt, urednik / Slovenija
Ulrika Karlsson – arhitektka / Švedska
David J Klein – znanstveni raziskovalec in svetovalec na področju nevronskokomputacijskih pristopov / ZDA
Miloš Kosec – arhitekt, urednik in publicist / Združeno kraljestvo, Slovenija
Maj Plemenitaš – izumitelj, raziskovalec in akademik / Združeno kraljestvo, Slovenija
Bika Rebek – arhitektka / Slovenija, Avstrija, ZDA
Marta Vahtar – arhitektka / Slovenija
projektni sodelavci: Ajda Bračič, Lucia Tahan, Andrej Stražišar, Emma Mendel
asistent komisarja: Nikola Pongrac
grafično oblikovanje: Matevž Granda, Benja Pavlin
oblikovanje razstave: Bika Rebek, Some Place
projekt podpira: Republika Slovenija, Ministrstvo za kulturo
projekt produciral: MAO ‒ Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanje, Ljubljana
Future Architecture is...
Future Architecture is the first pan-European platform of 18 architecture museums, festivals and producers, bringing ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to the wider public.
The platform is funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Coordinating entity: Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana (Slovenia)
members: MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (Italy), Copenhagen Architecture Festival (Denmark), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Portugal), Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (Poland), Belgrade International Architecture Week (Serbia), House of Architecture, Graz (Austria), Tirana Architecture Week (Albania), CANactions, Kiev (Ukraine), dpr-barcelona (Spain), Design Biotop, Ljubljana (Slovenia), One Architecture Week, Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Bureau N, (Germany), Oris House of Architecture, Zagreb (Croatia); associate members: Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (Switzerland), Prishtina Architecture Week (Kosovo), Forecast, Berlin (Germany), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal)
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Marko Fatur | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Marko Fatur, LUZ, Ljubljana, Slovenia
BIO 50: Public Water, Public Space
Marko Fatur is a civil engineer and an expert on water cycle and water systems. He is working at the Urban Planning Institute of Ljubljana (LUZ) that was established 50 years ago with the purpose of drafting the general plan of the city of Ljubljana. Today LUZ has almost 100 employees and drafts numerous urban planning schemes in Slovenia and internationally. Marko Fatur is currently working at BIO 50 as a mentor of the Public Water Public Space Group.
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Alenka Korenjak | What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Alenka Korenjak, ProstoRož, Ljubljana, Slovenia
What can I do for the city?
Why and how do we deal with urban public space? How do we explore public space? What does the public space mean to local residents and community?
In the projects, carried out in Ljubljana in the ten years of dealing with this topics, ProstoRož witnessed a big change in perception of public spaces in the minds of Ljubljana's residents and even more so in the minds of city officials. With the process of privatization the state lost its role of managing public spaces, and with the financial crisis so did the capital city. Who's turn is it now to take responsibility of managing public spaces?
The roles that ProstoRož played as a non-governmental organization while taking the initiative for actions and advocacy of public spaces were different, from planning the public space to connecting residents with city officials. Every project they undergo raises new questions and findings, each location demands a different approach and that is why ProstoRož adds a more specific question to the one in the title of the conference 'What is happening?', and that is: 'What can I as an individual and an expert do for the city?'
Alenka Korenjak is one of the co-founders of ProstoRož, which was founded spontaneously with a desire to explore and understand the open city space. ProstoRož combines architects, sociologists, jurists, designers and many others who work to examine and open up new possibilities of public space use. They try to raise awareness of the meaning of public spaces and of building strong local communities that are capable of active involvement in managing their own environment.
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Architectural conference : What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space, 8. in 9. 5. 2014
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mao.si
What's going on? The New Dynamics of Public Space
Public space is freedom. It is a place of differences expressed by everyday life, rhythms, rituals, nature and history. It allows us to meet one another, connect and work together in ways organized or entirely spontaneous. As a space of democratic political participation and one in which new economies emerge, public space enables society to transform itself. In this light, it is an essential component of quality of life that goes beyond measurable indexes evaluating cities or localities in a competitive context. The most interesting happenings in public space occur in the background of the newly designed furniture and smooth pavements, where people interact and find new uses for space in ways previously unimagined.
Therefore, beyond its physical appearance, the social situations and goings-on of public space are today highly relevant with regard to its reorganization and transformation. Architects, designers and urban planners increasingly expand their role into strategic fields, dealing simultaneously with the structure of public space and with its dynamics. Their aim is to improve the self-organization of citizens and facilitate social interaction within the communities and their relationship to the environment. Thus, public space is becoming a common platform for thinking and production that overcomes the tensions between policy and planning.
The New Dynamics of Public Space conference will discuss the impact of contemporary public space practices on urban economy, politics and quality of life. It is part of the Europe City project.
Europe City project's partners:
CCCB | The Architecture Foundation | Museum of Finish Architecture | MAO | with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Maite Borjabad: Wet Protocols (Living with Water – Southern Fringe of Ljubljana)
International waters, swamps, flood zones, body fluids, hygienic processes, liquid dreams, pools, sewage systems. All bodies of water. All wet concepts. All subjects of regulation. All written laws. All power systems. All political and social tools. All equally natural and cultural matters. All wet protocols.
This ongoing project seeks to challenge our understanding of the ways in which water has been and continues to be the subject of regulations and political agreements through multiple forms and mechanisms, and how various modes of cohabitation with water can materialize. The project is consolidated as an amphibious glossary that brings together a vast pool of concepts that span multiscaled lenses, from the scale of the physical body to an infrastructural one; from cultures and histories of people living in intimate proximity with bodies of water to legal and health narratives related to processes of urban hygiene and sanitation. This juxtaposition covers a vast territory of terms, protocols, concepts and ideas that suggest new interpretations of and approaches to the way we envision ways of negotiating cohabitation scenarios with water, while maintaining the claim that water is both a natural as well as a cultural asset.
The video is part of the exhibition Living with Water - Southern Fringe of Ljubljana at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) and Future Architecture. The exhibition looks at alternative urban development scenarios that consider the synergetic relationships between humankind and the natural environment. More at