Birgitta Persson
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Juha Huuskonen
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Ana Maria Tavares & Birgitta Persson
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Ana Maria Tavares & Birgitta Persson
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Juha Huuskonen & Alberto Oto
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Pekka Timonen & Elukka Eskelinen
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Maija Berndtson
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Panel Discussion
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Välitilojen kulttuurit – risteystilojen ilmiöt

Perjantai 12.5. klo 11.30–17.00

(Seminaari on englanninkielinen)

Määrittelemättömissä, avoimissa ja monimuotoisissa tiloissa ja tilanteissa syntyy lukuisia kulttuurisia oivalluksia, ilmiöitä ja innovaatioita – kaupunkikulttuuria eli kaupungin identiteettiä. Seminaarissa pohditaan, mikä tällainen avoin ja määrittelemätön tila on, miten välitiloissa luonnollisesti syntyviä ilmiöiden olemassaolo ja kehitys voidaan turvata ja miten niitä voi suunnitella. Entä keitä tilat houkuttelevat – tai keitä niiden pitäisi houkutella? Seminaari avaa keskustelun toimintaympäristöjen ja toimijahybridien ympärille, niiden merkitykselle ja tulevaisuudelle.

Seminaarin moderaattoreina toimivat kaupunkikulttuurin monitoimimies, Forum Viriumin johtaja Elukka Eskelinen ja kultuurijohtaja Pekka Timonen.

Puhujina mm. Birgitta Persson, Alberto Oto, Juha Huuskonen, Laura Kolbe ja Ana Maria Tavares

Seminaarin ohjelma:
11:30 Lounas ja näyttelyn esittely
12:30 Seminaarin avaus
12:45 Laura Kolbe
13:20 Alberto Oto
14:00 Tauko
14:30 Ana Maria Tavares
15:10 Birgitta Persson
15:50 Juha Huuskonen
16:30 Paneelikeskustelu
17:00 Yhteenveto

Elukka Eskelinen is the director of Forum Virium. Elukka is an expert in the fields of cultural production, digital media and project manage–ment, with a background in architecture, event promotion and cultural production. Before his current position Elukka was the director of Media Centre Lume and the program coordinator of the Helsinki 2000 European City of Culture project, producing the architecture, design, popular music, cinema, new media and photography programs, and the founder and managing director of PopZoo Pro–motions production company, which was in 1992 one of the first professional cultural pro–duction companies in Finland.

Birgitta Persson is the coordinator of Trans Europe Halles. Trans Europe Halles is a network of independent culture centres. It was founded in 1983 and currently has over 36 members in 22 countries. Trans Europe Halles provides a stimulating platform for exchange, support and co–operation between its members. The network brings together a great diversity of independent and multi–disciplinary cultural centres. All of the organisations in Trans Europe Halles have their own distinguishing features; however they share the same spirit of support for new talent, innovation, young artists and cultural exchange. Many of the network’s centres have been pioneers in providing opportunities for young people to utilise and develop their artistic skills and challenging the common cultural policy. Trans Europe Halles supports the idea of culture in its broadest sense and encourages collaboration between different artistic disciplines. The network aims to support alternative modes of artistic expression and provide a stage for artistic work that cannot be experienced elsewhere. Trans Europe Halles is a member of the European forum of arts and heritage, EFAH.

Alberto Oto (director of Projects, Fundacion Metrópoli) completed his architectural studies in the University of Navarre, where he obtained a grant for urban planning research. Investigator member of the PROYECTOCITIES initiative, a joint effort focusing on some twenty cities located in five continents. The basic aim is to identify the competitive advantages of each participating city, the “Cluster of Excellence" of the city, and to present the principal urban innovations that they are developing. He is expert in the use of new information technologies in urbanism. He has worked on planning project of different scales especially in Eco Cities and Urban MasterPlan projects, in different cities like Casablanca, Fenghchen (Shanghai), Pasajes (Spain), Granada (Spain), Madrid, Pamplona (Spain), Marrakech and others.

Juha Huuskonen (b. 1974). is a media artist, software designer and curator who has been devoting most of his time and energy to developing cultural organisations and events. He is a founding member and chairman of katastro.fi media art collective, which received the Young Art in Finland Award in 1998. Juha is also the initiator and director of PixelACHE festival for electronic art and subcultures, taking place annually at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and frequently traveling to other cities (so far held in New York, Montreal and Stockholm). Juha was also involved in setting up USVA (underground electronic music events), Avanto Festival (experimental cinema and music), Nifca New Media AiR artist residency program and Amfibio video performance collective. Juha received his MSc degree on Interactive Digital Media from Helsinki University of Technology and did his minor subject studies at University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He has worked as a software designer at MTV Networks in London, European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva and at several game and new media companies in Finland. His art projects mirror++, The Moment of Long Now and Roosa have been exhibited widely around Europe and North America.

Laura Kolbe (born in 1957) is working as a European history professor at Helsinki University, specialized in city and culture history. Besides her courier at University Kolbe has worked as an assistant for Mrs. Eeva Ahtisaari and as an intendant of Mannerheim Museum. Professor Laura Kolbe has several scientific and social positions of trust. Considerable number of Finnish journals, newspapers and opinion magazines has published her numerous writings. Laura Kolbe is a city councillor of Helsinki.

Maija Berndtson is the director of Helsinki City Library since 1987. She has held posts as librarian in Helsinki and Deputy Library Director in Espoo. She was the Secretary General of the Finnish Library Association from 1984 to 1987 and Vice President from 1989 to 1991. Internationally she has been active in different projects within European Union, such as PubliCA, Public Libraries Concerted Action in 1997–1999. She was a member of the International Network of Public Libraries run by the Bertelsmann Foundation 1998–2001 and is currently a member of PLIN (Public Libraries International Network). She has written many articles in Finnish library journals and has lectured in many international conferences. Helsinki City Library was the first recipient of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations "Access to Learning Award", 2000. In 2004 the City Library won the Lord Mayor's Quality Award; the award is given in recognition to efforts to constantly improve operation, results and customer–orientation.

Ana Maria Tavares, Belo Horizonte, MG, 1958. Lives and works in São Paulo. Ana Maria Tavares received a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago (USA) in 1986 and in 2000 she finished her PhD at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA) Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. In 2001 she was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Scholarship. Her first solo exhibition was Objetos e Interferências, held at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in 1982. She participated in three São Paulo International Biennials (1983, 1987 and 1991), two Havana Bienniales, Cuba (1982 and 2000), and the Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2001). Some of her most outstanding installations were Porto Pampulha (1997), at the Museum of Modern Art of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Relax'O'Vision (1998), at Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil and Middelburg Airport Lounge with Parede Niemeyer in Middelburg, Holland (2001). In 2003, her work was featured f.ex. at the exhibition Living Inside the Grid (New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY), the exhibition At Your Own Risk (Schirn Kunstahalle Frankfurt). In June 2004, she was a guest artist at Centro Cultural São Paulo and created the installation Enigmas de Uma Noite com Midnight Daydreams (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo). In 2004 she was invited to participate in the inauguration exhibition Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan. In 2005, she had a solo exhibition at Culturgest, in Porto, Portugal and the exhibition Collection Summer 2005 – The Summer of Middelburg, at Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen – MuHKA and the exhibition Farsites: Urban crisis and domestic symptoms in recent contemporary art at the San Diego Museum of Art, as part of the Insite public project in Tijuana, California, USA. She is presentely working on a public commission for the city of Middelburg in Holland and a public art work for the first Singapore Bienalle in september 2006. Since 1986 Ana Maria Tavares has been teaching in the under graduate level and in the year 2000 she started to advise and teach in the graduate programme of Art School of the University of Sao Paulo. Ana Maria Tavare is represented by Galeria Vermelho – Sao Paulo – Brazil

Muut MoA seminaarit:
11.5. Muotoilun radikaalit, 13.5. Luova elämä, 22.5. Luovuuden lähde, 23.5. Tunnelma arkkitehtuurissa