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Galicia Hosts First Int’l Forum of Cultural Spaces

webmaster 11-10-2011

This meeting of representatives of cultural infrastructures will take place November 8-10 at the Cidade da Cultura de Galicia Foundation, Spain.

The registration call for the forum will be open through October 24. The event will be centered on how institutions form part of wider strategies for economic development that focus on projecting a certain image. It seeks to create an open and inclusive scenario where cultural spaces of any kind can be questioned and reinvented, and to “interchange” and combine strategies. In addition, organizers look to create and consolidate Cidade da Cultura de Galicia as a stage for the generation of interactive initiatives based on contemporary dynamics.

The forum will have an opening session and six sessions named Visit, Explore, Learn, Create, Interchange and Add, in which students and professionals, both independent and linked either to public or private institutions can participate (100 places top). The registration form can be downloaded from the event’s official website www.fiec-cidadedacultura.org. Applicants will be contacted on the admission confirmation via email.

The opening lecture titled The Revolution of Knowledge (La Revolución del Conocimiento) will be given by Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, who will talk about new shades the invention, production, interpretation, storage, recovery, spreading, integration, reinterpretation, manipulation and reinvention of knowledge acquire in this new era in which society and economy are based in technology; a knowledge that allows us to set new projects to make the cultural panorama’s heritage trail and dynamism functional.

The first session of the Forum, Visit, will deal with the city as cultural space, and how the culture produced in the cities can be reactivated as it interacts with the visitor; while Explore will study the museum as venue of new ways of programming that are more multidisciplinary and plural, stepping away from traditional exhibition concepts and community participation. Learn will examine the topic of human resources demanded by institutions at present, and the importance for educational centers to adapt to the latest teaching trends; Create will enable participants to learn, through different experiences, about the significance of diversity in designing a project; Interchange aims at recognizing how the development of communication in the cultural fields have given rise to an authentic revolution, making it possible to generate a new concept of untouchable space for cultural «exchange»; and, the last one, Add will study the ways in which spaces can stop depending on public contributions to nourish themselves from their own profit and content, by means of strategies such as cultural sponsorship on the part of companies, or co-production.

Attending these sessions are Allegra Burnette, in charge of http://moma.org/, New York;Natalio Grueso, Niemeyer Center’s director, Aviles; Jose Guirao, La Casa Encendida’s director, Madrid; Louise Jeffreys, Barbican’s Program planning director, London; Frank Madlener, IRCAM-Pompidou’s director, Paris; Rui Vieira Nery, Lisbon-based Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Education for Culture director; Sheryl Kolasinski, Smithsonian’s Operations and Infrastructures director, US; Josep Ramoneda, CCCB’s director, Barcelona; Bruno Assami, Museum of Art of Sao Paulo’s manager director; and Susan Collins, US TV chain Art21 PBS’s executive director and commissioner.

Cidade da Cultura de Galicia, based in Santiago de Compostela, is a cultural complex designed by US architect Peter Eisenman offering a wide program aimed at stimulating creativity and fostering knowledge, and includes exhibitions, concerts, performing art shows, artist meetings, literary cycles, seminars, discussion forums, among others.