Australia now Germany 2017
MUSEUM AS ACTIVATOR: Strategies for Public Space and Access
Thursday, 14 September and Friday, 15 September 2017
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
Part 1: Welcome and Introduction
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 - 00:00:00 - 00:04:28
Margalit Levin, Second Secretary, Australian Embassy, Berlin - 00:04:31 - 00:06:59
Torsten Wöhlert, Permanent Secretary for Culture, Berlin - 00:07:09 - 00:12:30
Introduction
Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB, Berlin - 00:12:32 - 00:23:41
Part 2: Presentations
Presentations
Dolla Merrillees, Director,The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney - 00:00:57 - 00:20:33
Lisa Havilah, Director, Carriage Works, Sydney - 00:21:44 - 00:39:52
Mark Loughnan, Head of Design, HASSEL, Melbourne - 00:41:16 - 01:02:58
Rob Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne - 01:04:04 - 01:20:10
Part 3: Podium Discussion
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
Part 4: Contribution Vains
Introduced by
Miriam Mlecek, Programme Manager, ANCB, Berlin
Contributor
Caroline Vains, Lecturer, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT, Melbourne - 00:06:36 - 00:29:17
Part 5: Contributions King and Katsalidis
Contributors
Natalie King, Curator of Tracey Moffatt at the 57th Venice Biennale 2017, Melbourne - 00:00:00 - 00:16:31
Nonda Katsalidis, Director, Fender Katsalidis Architects, Melbourne - 00:16:36 - 00:39:48
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
We would like to thank Natalie King for initiating FORMATIONS' involvement in the event.
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 enabled 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. focused 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 experimented 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.
