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๐ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฆ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐บWe are delighted to announce '๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐บ ๐ง๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ, ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ, ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐น-๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ปโ โ a focused two-day international symposium at MICAS, Malta International Contemporary Art Space, Floriana.
The MICAS International Symposium is conceived as a focused two-day research event, bringing together architects, architectural historians, curators, museologists, and sociologists to examine how contemporary art institutions emerge within historically layered environments, with particular attention to the relationship between architecture, museum formation, and public cultural presence. In small island and small-state contexts, public aspiration places specific demands on cultural institutions and their architectural form.
Taking place at MICAS, Malta International Contemporary Art Space, the symposium draws on this and other institutional examples to consider how these demands are negotiated in practice, and how architecture engages existing spatial and material structures to produce new forms of institutional and cultural presence. The programme moves from the structural forces shaping such institutions, through questions of formation and architectural intervention, to the curatorial negotiation of historically layered sites and the role of practice in giving form to spaces for contemporary art.
Alongside these institutional questions, the symposium engages with broader questions of architectural practice โ about the conditions under which architecture responds to the specific character of existing places, and about where, in the current moment, the conditions for genuine architectural experimentation are most likely to be found.
These discussions are anchored locally through an architectural walkthrough of the site led by the project architects and brought into focus through moderated discussion and a concluding research roundtable.
Programme: Moderated by Vicky Richardson
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๐๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐พ๐๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐น๐ผ๐ โ Professor Emeritus, historian of museums and cultural heritage, Universitรฉ Paris I Panthรฉon-Sorbonne
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ฐ๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ โ Professor Emeritus, architectural historian, critic, and longstanding editor of Casabella, IUAV Venice
๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฒ โ Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University and Director of Villa I Tatti, Florence
๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐๐ผ โ Professor of Architecture and Construction, ETH Zรผrich; founding partner, Caruso St John Architects
๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ โ Artistic Director, MICAS; formerly senior curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London
๐๐ผ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ผ โ Professor of Sociology, University of Malta
๐๐ฟ. ๐๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ถ - Vice-Chair and Chair of the Education Committee, MICAS
๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ผ ๐ ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ โ Professor of the History of Architecture, University of Ferrara
๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ผ ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ โ Professor of Architectural Design, University of Florence; founding partner, Ipostudio Architects; architect of the MICAS galleries
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Ospizio Complex, Bieb il-Pulverista, Triq Joseph J Mangion, , FRN1830 Floriana, Malta, Valletta, Malta
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