Speakers
John Ryan
Local Projects, USA Director of Interaction Design Tools workshop / You/Me/Us: Collaboration, Storytelling, & Technology / ALTOS 5Open activity. Chaos On Stage John directs the Interaction Design department, while also serving as a creative director and interaction designer. Before Local Projects, John applied design and technology to development challenges at UNICEF, created software tools for fellow designers, and ran a small inter-disciplinary design studio in Ireland. John holds an MFA in Media Design from Art Center College of Design and a BSc in Multimedia from Dublin City University. |
Helen Marriage
Artichoke, United Kingdom Artistic Director Dialogue panel “Public space: The critical agora for the XXI century”Tool workshop/ Cultural Disruption – a life on the streets / ALTOS 8 Helen Marriage is Artistic Director of Artichoke, one of the UK’s leading independent arts companies, uniquely transforming landscapes and public expectations through recognising the ambitions of artists and inserting their work into the routines of everyday life. Helen was granted a prestigious Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard, in 2012 and an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List in 2016. |
Gustavo Diéguez, Lucas Gilardi
a77 Studio, Argentina Architects Tool workshop/ Enable the street / ALTOS 7 Gustavo Diéguez and Lucas Gilardi are both architects who enjoy building projects with their own hands. Their work consists in producing a variety of objects of daily use that reach the size of pieces of architecture. In their projects they combine art, architecture, sociology and urbanism, and they show special interest in reusing industrial remnants and in recycling, applying both to experimental housing, the creation of ephemeral institutions, the enlivening of social dynamics in the public realm and the self-governance of cultural institutions. Gustavo is an associate professor of Architecture at Universidad de Buenos Aires’ School of Architecture and the head professor of the Laboratory of Experimental Building for Social Housing at Universidad de Palermo’s School of Architecture, where he is also one of the coordinators of Red de Urbanismo Abierto (“Open Urbanism Network”). Lucas is an associate professor of Architecture at Universidad de Buenos Aires’ School of Architecture. He is also one of the members of the Graduates Council and the head of the School of Architecture at FADU, Universidad de Buenos Aires. |
Nicolás Testoni
Ferrowhite (museo-taller), Instituto Cultural de Bahía Blanca, Argentina Director Dialogue panel “Public space: The critical agora for the XXI century”Tool workshop / Rummage. Mobile museography and informal layering workshop Nicolás Testoni was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1974. He studied communication at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). While he studied, he produced videos for the Museo del Puerto de Ingeniero White (1997- 2003). Since 2003, Testoni has been working at Ferrowhite (museo-taller), where he is currently director and where he writes, photographs and films. His work as an audiovisual producer has received support from the Jan Vrijman and Prince Claus foundations of the Netherlands, and national and international recognition through the MAMBA-Telefonica Foundation Prize for “Art and New Technologies,” the Videobrasil festival, the Leonor Hirsch competition for music and video, the Concours Internationaux Bourges – Musiques Electroacoustiques Arts et Electroniques, the Prix Ton Bruneil and the Latin American Video Art Festival FLAVIA. Together with Ferrowhite and the Museum of Toys, he was awarded the “Coronation” prize at the museum contest organized by Fundación TyPA (Argentina) and the American Alliance of Museums (EE.UU.), at the “Reimagining the Museum” convening (Buenos Aires, 2015). |
Walter Hood
Hood Design, USA Founder Presentation “Placemaking” Walter Hood is an architect based in Oakland, CA, whose work focuses on community development and sustainability. He is the founder of Hood Design; Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley; and the author of Urban Diaries and Blues & Jazz Landscape Improvisations. Hood has designed a landscape garden for the de Young Museum in San Francisco, a master plan for the Pittsburgh Park Conservancy, and a solar strip for the University at Buffalo, NY. |
Andrés Roldán
Parque Explora, Colombia Director Presentation “Placemaking”, Presentation “How can public space be used for the sciences” Andrés Roldán is director of Parque Explora, an interactive museum, planetarium and aquarium in Medellín whose mission is to inspire, inform and transform through scientific, technological and social knowledge. Parque Explora advocates for science as a tool for social transformation. Andrés was part of the team that created the park and was head of museology, innovation and development for over 10 years. With his team he has led the conceptualization, design, production and creation of different science museums and national and international exhibitions, and developed innovative teaching strategies in formal and informal education through museological, educational, artistic and multimedia environments. He is responsible for the revitalization of the Planetariums of Bogota and Medellin, and the creation of the Museo Casa de la Memoria, an innovation center for teachers and host of various exhibitions. He is an industrial designer and professor at the Pontifical Bolivarian University. |
Elaine Heumann Gurian
The Museum Group, USA Museum Consultant Idea-sharing and presentation of proposals. Wrap-up session, Creative workshop, Reaching Outside of their Walls: Designing Museums for Inclusion Elaine Heumann Gurian is a consultant and advisor to museums and visitor centers that are beginning, building, or reinventing themselves. She specializes in coaching government museums—large and small, local, national and international—that are undergoing significant change. In 2004 she received the Distinguished Service to Museums Award, America’s most important museum honor, presented by the American Federation of Museums. In 2006 Elaine Heumann Gurian was designated one of the 100 Centennial Honor Roll members by the American Federation of Museums. Over the past 45 years, in addition to consulting, Elaine has served as acting director, Cranbrook Institute of Science; deputy director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; deputy director for public program planning, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution; deputy assistant secretary for museums, Smithsonian Institution; director of the Exhibit Center, Boston Children’s Museum; and director of education, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Elaine’s collected writings, Civilizing the Museum, was published by Routledge in 2006, and her publications are used in many museum studies programs. In 2008 Gurian was granted a Fulbright scholarship to Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lectures and teaches nationally and internationally and has held many elected positions in the national and international museum communities. |
Martín Luit
National University of Quilmes, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Composer, teacher and researcher Tool workshop/ Sounds, vibrations and echoes: strategies to listen and to resonate the city and its(s) stories(s) Martín has composed chamber music, pure and mixed electro acoustic pieces and vocal music for stage. He has also created sound art (including audio installations, pieces for radio, sound interventions and performances). He founded and directed Buenos Aires Sonora, a group of urban artists that carried out large-scale sound interventions in the urban public realm from 2003 to 2011. In 1992 he was granted the title of professor in Harmony, Counterpoint and Musical Structure from Universidad Nacional de La Plata’s School of Fine Arts (Argentina). He is currently an associate tenured Music professor at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, where he teaches Music History and Composition. He directs the “Territorios de la música argentina contemporánea” (“Argentinian Contemporary Music Territories”) research project at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. He is also the assistant professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires’ School of Philosophy and Arts “Argentinian and Latin American Music” course. |
David Anderson
National Museum Wales Director Open Activity. Reaching Outside of their Walls: Designing Museums for Inclusion David Anderson was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, grew up in the English Midlands, and studied Irish History at Edinburgh University in Scotland. After first working as a history teacher in a state comprehensive school, he began his museum career as an educator in Brighton in England, before moving to the National Maritime Museum in London and then the V&A in London. In 2010 he became the Director General of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Under his leadership, the museum is managing a major $42 million redevelopment at the St. Fagans open air museum, which will be transformed to become the National Museum of History for Wales. Wales has the highest levels of poverty in the United Kingdom, and some of the highest in Europe. In partnership with the Welsh Government, the museum is now leading research and evaluation for a national project to overcome the consequences of poverty in Wales’ poorest communities, through cultural participation. David is a member of the Boards of the UK Museums Association, and Creative and Cultural Skills and is also a member of the Advisory Committee of British Council Wales. He has written many articles on museums and cultural policy, a UK government report on museums and learning, and two children’s books. |
Matt Haycocks
Belfast School of Architecture, Westminster University, United Kingdom Designer and lecturer Tool workshop/ So, Where Were We Now? / ALTOS Matt Haycocks is a designer and lecturer at Belfast School of Architecture and Westminster University London. His research interests include domestic photography of place, the historicization of place and the use of historic images to brand and promote places. His current research project investigates exhibition and trade show architecture in early 20 th century Dresden using both institutional archives and postcards. He is part of a team (with Brigitte Lardinois, London College of Communication) researching the Reeves Archive. The Reeves Studio in Lewes East Sussex founded in 1858 is probably the world’s oldest photographic studio still in operation, with an archive of approximately 240,000 glass negatives. He designed and co-curated the exhibition ‘Stories through a Glass Plate’ for the Brighton Photography Biennial 2014 and a further exhibition is planned for the November 2016 of Studio Portraits of Women 1914-18 from the Reeves archive. Both exhibitions use novel strategies for the display of images beyond a conventional gallery model. |
Magui Kämpf
M+E Design - museums & exhibitions, Brazil Creative director Tool workshop/ Cocreating Stories – feel, listen, connect / ALTOS 5 Magui Kämpf is creative director on M+E Design – museums & exhibitions, a consultancy company for museum design, based on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her professional practice and research are focused on developing new solutions to help cultural audience to better transform content into knowledge. In quest for more access and equality in society, she creates bridges on museums to listen and include a more diversified public. She uses architecture and design skills, co-creative tools and collaborative and circular economy’s fundamentals to promote a more participatory, inclusive and horizontal relationship between people, content and museums. She has worked for several museums and exhibitions, on Brazil, France and Germany, like the Parlamentarium in Brussels and the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam with Atelier Brückner, the Civilization Museum in Cameroun, the Immigration Museum in São Paulo, the Maritime Museum and the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. |
Philip G. Freelon Perkins+Will, USA Managing Director and Design Director Presentation “Sense of Place” Known for imaginative design and thoughtful collaboration, Phil Freelon practices architecture that engages the community and enhances opportunities for interaction and learning. His architectural design achievements include cultural, civic, and academic projects for some of America’s most respected cultural institutions. Freelon led the four-firm design team for the $500M Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C. and is the design architect for the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. His portfolio also includes the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Emancipation Park in Houston, and multiple library projects for the D.C. Public Library System. Phil is an Obama appointee to the National Commission of Fine Arts, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA), and a recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. |
Xavier Llarch Font and Carolina Caicedo
The Decorators, United Kingdom Spatial Designer Tool workshop/ (Extra) Ordinary Tools Workshop by The Decorators / ALTOS 2 Xavier Llarch Font and Carolina Caicedo make up two-thirds of London based design practice, The Decorators. The Decorators work at the scale of the neighbourhood to design, produce and deliver placemaking and community building interventions in the public realm. Working mainly in areas undergoing change, their expertise lies in designing (infra) structures that connect people and place by building from the local. Their projects aim to co-create new civic opportunities in the public realm by celebrating what is already there. The Decorators are multidisciplinary in formation, Carolina has a BSc in psychology from the University of Bristol and Xavier trained as a spatial designer Elisava School of Design and Engineering. Both have an MA in Narrative Environments from Central Saint Martins. Relevant projects include Ridley’s Restaurant (2011), Cottrell House Enterprise Space (2012), Chrisp Street On Air (2014) Hackney Circle (2014), with clients that include local authorities across London, the Agency of Environment of Brussels and the V&A Museum. The Decorators are part of the Specialist Assistance Team for the Greater London Authority, acting as consultants on community capacity and cultural curation. |
Tim McNeil
Department of Design, University of California, Davis, USA Professor Creative Workshop Tim McNeil is the Director of the UC Davis Design Museum, and a Professor of Design at the University of California, Davis, where he is the primary instructor for courses on museum and exhibition design. His research and creative work defines exhibition design in relation to the curatorial process, and explores the exhibition medium as a creative space for the effective communication of objects and narratives. McNeil is an experienced design practitioner and a principal with Muniz/McNeil, a multi-disciplinary design and research practice. |
Américo Castilla
Secretary of Cultural Heritage, National Ministry of Culture, Argentina Secretary of Heritage of Argentina Open Activity. Reaching Outside of their Walls: Designing Museums for Inclusion Dialogue panel “Public space: The critical agora for the XXI century” Founder of Fundación TyPA, Américo Castilla was Director of the Cultural Program of Fundación Antorchas (1992/2003). National Director of Heritage and Museums of Argentina (2003/2007) and Director of the National Museum of Fine Arts (2005/ 2007). Teaches the Doctoral Seminar on Culture and Management Policies at the National University of La Plata. Co-chair of the World Conference: Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, Salzburg 2011. As a visual artist he represented Argentina in biennials such as Sao Paulo and Paris, and received, among others, the First National and Municipal Awards on Etching. Since 2013 he is the Academic Director of the TyPA Lab on Museum Management. |
Guillermo Castañeda and Mariela Jungberg
Casona de Humahuaca, Argentina Museum LiveTool workshop/ Participative methodologies in the communitarian approach to public space / ALTOS 8 Guillermo Castañeda is a Social Psychologist (Primera Escuela Fundada por Pichon-Rivière) and a Psychodramatist (Sociedad Argentina de Psicodrama). In the year 2000 he founded the Casona Cultural de Humahuaca, institution where he now coordinates the cultural center. He is the founder and coordinator of several cultural collectives, such as Grupo TEA (Teatro Espontáneo Abierto), Grupo “Los del Marco” and the CUJUCA collective (Cumbre de Juegos Callejeros). He is a member of the Argentinian Psychodramatists Network. Guillermo has put into practice the spontaneous and community theatre device in many cultural, health and human rights congresses around the world. Mariela Jungberg has a degree in Organization Management (UBA). She is a Social Psychologist (Primera Escuela Fundada por Pichon-Rivière) and a Psychodramatist (Escuela de Arte & Psicodrama). Since 2005 she has been developing her career in the community field, developing new intervention devices in different contexts and with different recipients. Mariela has worked in public and private institutions in the fields of education, health and culture, using Play and Spontaneous Theatre as her working tools with teenagers and adults. Marina also integrates the Psychodrama and Play Collective since its foundation, developing different psychodrama and spontaneous theatre interventions in several health and culture congresses. |
Jim Broughton
Natural History Museum, UK Head of International Engagement Tool workshop/ Understanding the Uninterested / ALTOS 4 Jim Broughton is responsible for the Natural History Museum’s international diplomacy, partnerships and global business activities – including its touring exhibitions programme and its professional services division NHM Consulting, its publishing, picture library, brand licensing and IP teams, and the renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Jim trained as a designer and has a background in exhibition development and museum master-planning, chiefly working within international collaborations. He has worked previously at the British Museum, at Historic Scotland and in consultancy, with much of his career spent on large partnership projects in Asia. Jim is Vice Chair of ICOM UK. |
Daniela Gómez
Ministry of Culture and Innovation of the Santa Fe province Sub Secretary of Cultural Innovation Tool workshop/ Transits, borders and passages / ALTOS 2Open activity. Chaos On Stage Daniela Gomez is an actress born in Rosario, Argentina. She studied Systems Analysis (UTN), but dedicated her career to infancy. She is the Sub Secretary of Cultural Innovation at the Ministry of Culture and Innovation of the Santa Fe province, and has under her responsibility the pedagogical coordination of the “Imagination Triptych”. Daniela is the coordinator of the Children’s City Latin-American Network. She was the director of the Infancy Triptych of Rosario and was a part of the creative team responsible for the “Invention Island”. She was also responsible for the design and general coordination of the “Children’s Congress: let’s talk about happiness”. Besides, she coordinated the experience “Infancy Triptych: School. A model for new ways of learning”. In 2014 and 2015, Daniela was a part of the design and production team of an interactive exhibition for children and adults called “El porvenir de las palabras” of the Federal Language Congress (Congreso Federal de la Palabra), in Tecnópolis. She has also developed content for the public television networks “Encuentro” and “Paka Paka”. |
Clare Brown
Corcoran School of the Arts + Design, The George Washington University, USA Program Head, MA Exhibition Design Creative workshop Tool workshop/ Ubiquitous museology / ALTOS 6 Clare Brown is an Assistant Professor of Design, and Program Head of the MA Exhibition Design program at the Corcoran School of the Arts + Design, The George Washington University. Her research and interests include ‘The intersection of Space & Meaning,’ ‘Non-Linear Experiences in Exhibition Design,’ ‘Creative Process,’ ‘Ubiquitous Museology’ and ‘Human-Centered Design.’ She has designed exhibitions at the Newseum, the New-York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. |
Polly McKenna-Cress
University of the Arts, US. Program Director, Associate Professor With 28 years of leadership experience in the discipline of museum exhibition planning, development and design, Ms. McKenna-Cress has been dedicated to furthering the museum field through her involvement in the 25+ exhibitions she has managed and collaborated on. With extensive work experience in design firms, museums and over the past 14 years Chairing an academic department and directing an MFA program as an Associate Professor, Ms. McKenna-Cress has multiple vantage points. This provides her with both strategic and long views for how the field must to stay viable. She has managed teams, departments, budgets and projects both large and small with deep complexity and multiple stakeholders. She is co-author of the internationally published and recognized book, “Creating Exhibitions:Collaboration in Planning, Development, and Design of Interpretive Experiences (Wiley, 2013)” and was a Noyce Leadership Fellow, 2015. She is deeply dedicated to and teaches civic and socially responsive creative practice. |
James Volkert
Exhibition Associate, USA Director Creative workshop, Open Activity. Reaching Outside of their Walls: Designing Museums for Inclusion Principal of Exhibition Associates, a firm that consults internationally with museums on exhibition and facilities development, new programs, and management. Over 35 years as a museum professional, Jim has facilitated major institutional changes: program and architectural integration; facility staffing and operational planning, and policy development. He has broad experience and understands issues of institutional growth, new construction and architecture, exhibition development, staffing, resources, schedules, and audience demographics. He has developed more than 350 exhibitions on the arts, sciences, and history. Prior to becoming a consultant, Jim was the former Associate Director for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), Smithsonian Institution, in Washington D.C. In that capacity, he was responsible for all aspects of the completion of the new museum on the National Mall which opened September 21, 2004. This includes exhibitions, programs, architectural coordination, and visitor services. Prior to that, he was Director of Exhibitions for the National Museum of American Art. He has served as a consultant to museums nationally in the development of programs and has worked with museum programs in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Jordan, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Peru. He taught exhibition development at the George Washington University for 10 years. He holds a B.A. in Fine art from the University of California and an M.F.A from Art Center, College of Design. Jim is a member of The Museum Group. |
Deborah L. Mack
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, USA Associate Director for Constituent and Community Services Dialogue panel “Public space: The critical agora for the XXI century” Dr. Deborah L. Mack is the Associate Director for Community and Constituent Services at the National African American Museum of History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. She serves as the principal executive responsible for overall planning, management and coordination of professional service programs and international activities, with functions that include building relationships, training, and technical support for constituent groups; programs with international organizations; collaborative projects with other institutions, museums and agencies; support of alliances and collaborations with cultural service institutions. Mack served on the advisory Smithsonian Council from 1999 – 2005, as Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Musée Théodore Monod, Dakar (Senegal) in 2010, and from 2005-2011 on the Scholarly Advisory Committee for the National African American Museum of History and Culture. Mack is an active service member of several professional organizations, among them the American Alliance of Museums, Association of African American Museums, International Council of African Museums, on the editorial board of the Journal of Public History, and is a peer and field reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Deborah L. Mack holds a Ph.D. and an M.A., both in anthropology from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in geography from the University of Chicago. |
Vera and Ruedi Baur
Studio Intégral Baur, París / Zurich Sociologist and anthropologist, designer Tool workshop / Difficult confrontation with the wounded worlds / ALTOS 4Open activity. Chaos On Stage Vera Baur has a degree in Cultural Science at Luenburg (Germany) and she is an associate investigator in Sociology of Design at St. Gallen University – Switzerland. Vera Baur makes interdisciplinary practices and investigations in the border of culture, politics and science. She is the founder and director of Interdis, an interdisciplinary institute based in Zurich/Berlin/Paris that develops publications, exhibitions, conferences and investigation projects since 1989. After an international career as a curator and director of contemporary art centers, Vera Baur co directed the Arts, Design and Media Technology Institute of the University of Nuremberg (2000/2004) and the Design2context Institute of the University of Zurich. She was co founder and member of the directing committee of the Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Society and the Transmedia Academy of Hellerau, in Dresden. Vera Baur is the Chair of the City Institute civic association for the investigation of science and design critic, and the director, with Ruedi Baur, of the doctorate programme “Visible/Invisible” in the School of Arts and Design of Geneva. Vera Baur is also responsible for the social design department of the Intégral studio, Paris/Zurich. |
Ruedi Baur has been placing his design work in the context of the public space since the 1980s. Working primordially as a graphic designer for numerous cultural institutions, he has also been teaching interdisciplinary courses at the ENSBA Lyon since the 1990s on the theme of “the Information-Space” and a postgraduate course entitled “Urban Spaces and Design”. He intervenes on problems related to the identification, orientation, scenography and, in broader terms, the representation of institutions, urban spaces and political territories, often alongside architects and urban planners. A proponent of interdisciplinary design, Baur created the Intégral network in 1989 with its own workshops: Intégral Ruedi Baur in Paris and Zurich. Today, he lectures and develops research programs in the HEAD University of Geneva, ENSAD in Paris and at the University of Strasbourg where he leads Idex action research in complex identities, legibility and comprehensibility. He lectures and implements research in China, Argentina and Brazil. Two workshops, Intégral Ruedi Baur Paris and Intégral Ruedi Baur Zurich, the Laboratoire IRB, Applied Research Workshop and the Institute for Research in Design Civic City accompany Ruedi Baur today. The most recent of the many wayfinding, visual identity and scenography projects he has designed are the visual identity of Manifesta 11, the sign and wayfinding system of the New School in New York, the Cologne-Bonn and Vienna airports, and the urban design project, La Phrase, for the European Capital of Culture, Mons. Baur has just completed the design of the passenger information system of the Grand Paris Project metro of the future (2022-2030) with the Intégral Paris team.
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María Eugenia Salcedo
Inhotim, Contemporary Art Center. Belo Horizonte, Brazil Assistant Curator Tool workshop / Discussing words: Collaboration for a collective glossary / ALTOS 3 María Eugenia Salcedo conducts research and has worked in the fields of culture and museums since 1998, the year in which she started working in museum education, mediation and art in countries like India, Ecuador and Brazil. Since then, she has worked in mediation, management, team building and, more recently, in the curatorial field. She has post graduate studies in Art and contemporaneity from the Instituto Guignard, University of Minas Gerais and has specialised in museum management. Regarding her professional career at Instituto Inhotim (2004-2015) she was Head of Education and conceived and managed the Educativo Inhotim, a team that worked as a horizontal organizational platform for the Instituto Inhotim programs. María Eugenia won one of the first places at the national award Itaú Cultural Rumos Educação, Cultura e Arte 2008-2010; Special Mention (2009) and second place (2010) in the Darcy Ribeiro prize. In recent years, she has collaborated with various institutions at conferences, courses and seminars, under which, the Fundación TyPA, in Argentina, since 2012. She is currently working on mediation and training programs for the 32a Bienal de São Paulo and she works as Assistant Curator at the Instituto Inhotim / Brumadinho. product designers and marketers at the University of the Arts. |
Tricia Austin
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom Course Leader MA Narrative Environments and Research Leader of the Spatial Practices Programme Creative workshopTool workshop/ Design for Audience Participation / ALTOS 1 Tricia is an academic, PhD supervisor, author, curator and design researcher. She has lectured in Hong Kong, Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai on spatial narrative and placemaking. She has devised and run collaborative projects with Universities in China, the United States, South Korea, Germany and Turkey. Tricia was the CSM lead on EU-PA, a €400,000 EU funded project to develop culture-led city regeneration methodologies, involving multiple stakeholders and producing exemplar case studies. She co-devised and co-curated the international summit ‘Chaos at the Museum: Designing for Audience Participation’ in London, 2014. Most recently she co-curated the international conference ‘The Future of Museum and Gallery Design’ in Hong Kong, 2015, an international conference exploring creative research and practice in museum making. |
Michael Burns
Omnimuseum Project & Quatrefoil Associate, USA Design Director Tool workshop/ Ubiquitous museology / ALTOS 6 Michael W. Burns is the founder and president of the Omnimuseum Project, a nonprofit collaborative devoted to the development of ubiquitous museology – a practice that embraces the everyday world of things, places and phenomena as sites for informal learning and enrichment. He is also the Design Director at Quatrefoil Associates, an exhibition design firm in Maryland, and has been designing museum exhibitions, public environments and events for over 25 years. Formerly, Michael was the Director of Exhibition Design at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago), and Creative Director at the Shedd Aquarium (Chicago). |
Julia Risler y Pablo Ares
Iconoclasistas, Argentina Tool workshop/ Collective mapping dynamics: senses and perceptions of daily routes / ALTOS 3Open activity. Chaos On Stage Iconoclasistas is a collaborative creative group originated in 2006. They develop projects that combine graphic arts, creative workshops and collective research. All of their work is released and shared online and licensed under Creative Commons with the purpose of promoting information availability and stimulating user appropriation and derived uses. In 2008 Pablo and Julia started to experiment with different cartographic tools in collective workspaces. That was the beginning of the Collective Mapping workshops. During these workshops attendants would carry out collaborative research while promoting critical thought by using graphic devices and an arsenal of ludic tools. The common space worked as a story that motivated practices of transformation. In 2013 they released Manual de mapeo colectivo. Recursos cartográficos críticos para procesos territoriales de creación colaborativa (“Collective Mapping Handbook. Critical Cartographic Resources For Territorial Processes of Collaborative Creation”) where they schematize and share methodologies, resources and dynamics for workshops’ organization. They are currently working on a sequel to this handbook. As a group undergoing continuous transformation and re-articulations, Iconoclasistas operates as a dynamic network of affinity and solidarity spread throughout the world. |
Chiqui González
Province of Santa Fe’s Administration, Argentina Minister of Innovation and Culture Presentation “Public space and museums: the citizenship’s landscapes” Chiqui González studied Law at Universidad Nacional de Rosario in Argentina, where she specialized in Family Law. She received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, for her contributions to education and human rights. She is currently the Minister of Innovation and Culture in the province of Santa Fe and has been since 2007. She has also served as Secretary of the Department of Culture in the city of Rosario and General Director at Isla de los Inventos (“Invention Island”), among other posts in the public administration related to education and culture. She coordinated “La Ciudad de los Niños” (“Children’s City”) project along with Rosario’s City Council and UNICEF Argentina. She is also a member of the Administration Council at Fundación Instituto Internacional de la Lengua Española. She is a professor at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), at Universidad de Buenos Aires’ School of Image and Sound Design, and she teaches postgraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de Rosario’s Performing Arts School. Chiqui created “Tríptico de la infancia” (“Childhood Triptych”) in Rosario and “Tríptico de la Imaginación” (“Imagination Triptych”) in the city of Santa Fe, which are two series of public areas that in each city seek to strengthen social ties through games and learning. She is also responsible for a vast drama production both as an actress and as a director and writer, in Argentina and abroad. She has been a speaker at several conferences organized by public as well as by private institutions. |
