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Thursday October 6th at 19:00: Conversation on the culture as infrastructure

If we understand infrastructure as the physical and organizational instrument that enables the operation of the society and enriched by the evidence that new technologies expand the impact of any message worldwide, we can describe culture as an infrastructure itself.
Because of its local, urban, national and global effect, culture is intimately linked to communication and contemporary mobility. It is a home and refuge for major changes and revision of codes and paradigms that affect the whole society. But isn’t culture even more? Culture provides not only the means of delivery but also creates the content, the new ideas by itself? So, how can culture become a true motor of urban progress of social and economic development beyond its educational purpose? Is investment in culture an investment in infrastructure?

In the panel:

Llàtzer Moix – Journalist and architecture & design critic, Barcelona

Bartomeu Marí – Director of Contemporary Museum of Modern Art Barcelona MACBA

Jan Åman – Curator and writer Stockholm, Sweden

Kjetil T. Thorsen – Architect, Principal of Snøhetta, Oslo / NYC

Stein Olav Henrichsen – Director of Munch Museum, Oslo

Antoni Muntadas – NYC Artist. Professor of the practice at MIT ACT -School of Architecture

Among others and the public.

All conversation events will be attended by Juan Herreros, Jens Richter and a representative from LPO architects!