Opening event
The House of World Cultures of the Future
A competition for young planners
The House of World Cultures of the future: What do you think it will look like? What kind of events will be presented there? What kind of people will make up its audience? What kind of atmosphere would you like to create there? What must be done to achieve all this? We are inviting young planners to design ideas for a future House of World Cultures.
Our workshop for the future starts on the Day of the Open Monument on 10 September at 5 p.m. It will be held in the MACHmit! Museum, where there will be an architecture exhibition displaying works by children and young people. Furthermore, the internet forum www.zukunft.hkw.de will be going online.
You can download competition entry forms for the planning competition from the website. During the first phase, we are inviting primary school children in Berlin and the surrounding area to participate in the competition. From early 2007 on, we will also be inviting secondary school pupils from all over Germany to take part. During the course of the year, renowned architects will be available to provide advice online to the participants. We shall keep you up to date with the latest news on www.zukunft.hkw.de, offering you information on the progress of the building work at the HKW, and interviews with preservers of historical monuments, architects artists as well as programme-makers from the House of World Cultures. From mid-July 2007, the jury will be meeting to reach a decision on the competition entries. On the Day of the Open Monument in September 2007, we shall be welcoming the winners and the participants to the award ceremony at the reopened House of World Cultures.
And those who do not want to participate in the competition will be have an opportunity to put unusual ideas on the www.zukunft.hkw.de website.
Art – and this is equally true of architecture – inflames people, breaks with habits and broadens our perception. And for this very reason, we need to teach cultural techniques and art forms as early as possible, by getting children and young people to work together with artists and experts. Hence, for this planning competition, the HKW will be working together with the Berlin Chamber of Architect’s Architektur und Schule project and the MACHmit! Museum in Prenzlauer Berg.
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