We invite you to the session “Creative environment and urbanism” during the Cultural Forum in Saint-Petersburg!

For the first time during the 5^th Saint-Petersburg International Cultural Forum on the 1^st −3^rd of December, 2016 section «Creative environment and urbanism» will be presented. It will be held under the leadership of Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow, under the auspices of the RF Ministry of Culture, Moscow Government and Committee for architecture and urban planning.

“We are grateful to the organizers of the Forum for the fact that issues of development of cultural environment in the focus of urbanism and architecture have finally become a part of the Forum.  Successful cities that are combining diverse cultural, educational, and social activities together with convenient infrastructure and comfortable environment create integrated type of the city resident and become attractive for tourists. Combination of various types of cultural facilities  that are skillfully integrated into the urban fabric in the context of the existing built-up environment gives opportunity to supply a demand of the majority of the population and guests of the city” – marks Sergey Kuznetsov, section curator, Chief Architect of Moscow.

Registration is open until November 6, 2016

Programme of the section “Creative environment and urbanism”

December 1

10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. Plenary meeting “Culture as a driver of development of the cities”

Promotion of culture and education cannot be achieved without appropriate infrastructure, specific State and Federal programmes, humanitarian and cultural international cooperation. Such large-scale challenges can hardly be met without direct dialogue between bodies of authority, experts in the field, developers, non-governmental and student organizations. During the plenary meeting representatives of each of these communities will present their view of current situation and try to plan key vectors of development in the sphere of culture, education, and architecture. What should do politics, urban specialists, in which direction museums are going to be promoted, in which way can young people be involved? These and number of other issues will be included in the agenda of the Meeting. 

Moderator: Mikhail Shvydkoy, RF President special representative on the international cultural cooperation

Participants of the session:;

Olga Golodets, Russian Deputy Prime Minister;

Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow, First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning;

Vladimir Grigoryev, Chief Architect of Saint-Petersburg;

Boris Mints, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the investment company O1 Group;

Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Board of OJSC NOVATEK;

Ekaterina Pronicheva, General Director of AO “VDNH”;

Zelfira Tregulova, General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery;

Pavel Korchagin, Director of the North-West branch of MegaFon.

12 a.m. -  1.30 p.m. Presentation of the project of concert hall in the park “Zaryadye”                   

Sergey Kuznetsov/Valery Gergiev,  Art Director and General Director of Mariinsky theatre/ Pavel Trekhleb, Director of  park “Zaryadye”.  

December 2

10 a.m. -11.30 a.m. Session: "Russia in the International Cultural Dialogue"

Culture and architecture are the best tools or media of communication between countries and communities, they become even more important at the time of complicated international relations. And while officials are continuing their tense discussions, we can see a significant progress in the sphere of cultural links. Russia introduced its pavilion at Expo-2015 in Milan and then presented an exposition on VDNH renovation at the Venice Architecture Biennale this year. Joint projects are developing in Moscow as well: the project of the “Zaryadye” park to be constructed next to the Kremlin received a positive evaluation from UNESCO experts. Each year Moscow welcomes many international experts in architecture, urban development and urban planning at the Moscow Urban Forum where they share their experience and tell about new trends. Foreign architects are actively involved in competitions for the construction of residential quarters, cultural facilities, renovations of industrial areas and other major projects. Besides, tight links have been established and are maintained with foreign museums, galleries and cultural institutions, resulting  in joint exhibitions and projects in the art field.

At the beginning of the session Dr. Martin Roth, ex-director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, will make a presentation on the promotion of cultural spaces.

Moderator: Lukas Feireiss, urbanist and writer

Participants of the session:

Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow;

Semyon Mikhaylovsky, Dean of Repin, State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture;

David Adjaye, architect, founder Adjaye Associates, London;

Hani Rashid,  Asymptote Architecture;

Teresa Mavika, Director of the Russian Fund “Victoria – the art of being contemporary” (V-A-C);

Vladimir Filippov, Deputy head of the Department of culture of Moscow, head of the organizing Committee on preparation and holding of the summit of the Cultural forum of the world cities in Moscow;

12 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. Presentation of the project Moscow Contemporary Art Centre in the building of former GES-2 Powerstation, Moscow

Sergey Kuznetsov/Teresa Mavika/Antonio Belvedere, partner Renzo Piano, senior project manager for GES-2 reconstruction

December 3

10 a.m. -11.30 a.m. Session “Architecture of culture facilities ”

Harmonious development of the city suggests diverse functions being available. Functions that satisfy not only everyday consumer needs  but also cultural, educational and research demands of its residents. Successful cities which manage to combine diverse cultural, educational, and social activities along with convenient infrastructure and comfortable environment create an integrated type of the city that serves the citizen and is attractive for tourists. However, a more important issue nowadays is not the number of museums but rather their quality; otherwise we will never be able to entice people out of shopping malls.

Moderator: Sergey Kuznetsov

Participants of the session:

Andrey Chibis, Deputy Minister Ministry Of Construction Housing And Utilities Of The Russian Federation;

Kristin Feireiss, curator and co-founder of independent Architecture Forum Aedes; Berlin

Hani Rashid,  Asymptote Architecture;

Sergei Tchoban, founder of bureau SPEECH, co-owner of bureau "nps tchoban voss" (Germany);

Vicente Guallart, Chief architect of Barcelona (2011-2015), co-founder and director of the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya IAAC;

Natalia Fishman, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan;

12 a.m. -1.30 p.m. Presentation of the design for a building of center of State Hermitage on the territory of the former plant ZIL

Sergey Kuznetsov/Andrey Molchanov, General Director OOO “LSR” / Mikhail Piotrosvky, General Director of the State Hermitage / Hani Rashid,  Asymptote Architecture

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REGISTRATION for participation in the 5^th Cultural Forum in Saint-Petersburg is open till the November 1  2016 https://cf2016.ru/register/