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Invitation to the Symposium within the ANCB Programme 'Museum of the 21st Century'
Australia now Germany 2017
MUSEUM AS ACTIVATOR: Strategies for Public Space and Access
in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and supported by the Australian Government as part of the cultural initiative Australia now Germany 2017
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Date: Thursday, 14 Sept. 2017, 6.30 - 8.45 pm; Friday, 15 Sept. 2017, 3.00 - 5.30 pm
Place: ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
The event will be in English. Admission is free. Please register at: reply@ancb.de, indicating if you would like to attend Thursday's or Friday's session, or both. We look forward to welcoming you.
Background
The last thirty years have seen an unparalleled rise of new museum buildings all over the world with many more being planned right now. There is a notably increasing 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 at ANCB will enable a broader dialogue to include cultural experts, city planners, architects, artists and curators to focus on the different strategies to extract general valid parameters and local adaptation factors.
The first panel on Thursday, 14 Sept. will focus on The Museum of the 21st Century as Activation Strategy for Public Space as these are increasingly understood in both nations as powerful instruments and activators of urban development. On 15 Sept., we will experiment with Accessibility to Culture and Cultural Resources for the public and how we tell stories today. Germany and Australia both need to re-invent and implement their own specific narratives to respond to their history, cultural identity and an increasingly mobile and international public.
Australia now is a long-standing initiative of the Australian Government to showcase the creative excellence, diversity, and innovation of Australian life in one focus country each year. In 2017, Germany is the host country for Australia now.
Programme
THURSDAY, 14 September 2017, 6.30 - 8.45pm: The Museum of the 21st Century as Activation Strategy for Public Space
Welcome
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratoy, Berlin
Margalit Levin, Second Secretary, Australian Embassy, Berlin
Torsten Wöhlert, Permanent Secretary for Culture, Berlin
Introduction
Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB, Berlin
Presentations
Dolla Merrillees, Director, The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
Lisa Havilah, Director, Carriage Works, Sydney
Mark Loughnan, Head of Design, HASSEL, Melbourne
Rob Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne
Podium Discussion
Torsten Wöhlert, Permanent Secretary for Culture, Berlin
Paul Spies, Director, Stadtmuseum Berlin
Dolla Merrillees, Director, The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
Rob Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne
Invited Peers
Katja Aßmann, Director, ZKR (Centre for Art and Public Space) Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
Volker Staab, Director, Staab Architects, Berlin
Moderator: Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB, Berlin
FRIDAY, 15 September 2017, 3.00 - 5.30pm: Accessibility to Culture and Cultural Resources within "Storytelling Circles: A format for sharing knowledge" by FORMATIONS
Introduced by
Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB, Berlin
Alex Martinis Roe and Melanie Sehgal, FORMATIONS, Berlin
Contributors
Caroline Vains, Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, Melbourne
Natalie King, Curator of Tracey Moffatt at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017, Melbourne
Anne Loxley, C3West curator MCA, Sydney
Nonda Katsalidis, Director, Fender Katsalidis Architects, Melbourne
Respondents
Claudia Perren, Director, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau
Bernd Scherer, Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Brook Andrew, Artist, Sydney/Berlin
Rachel Rits-Volloch, Visiting Professor, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Director, Momentum Gallery, Sydney/Berlin
Paulus Fugers, Director and Founder of SomoS Berlin
This symposium is part of the ANCB Collaborative Research Project The Museum of the 21st Century. Content – Form – Image.
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