It is for people to come and learn about arts but also an excellent kick-off ..... Designer Marjo Mäenpää: Education
Project of the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts
Partners: Danish Cultural Institute CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Finland) Supported by the European Union December, 2011 - January, 2014
Project’s team The St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts Elena Kolovskaya - project’s director Ekaterina Puzankova - curator of music program Natalia Khvoenkova - curator of design program Anastasia Rozhkova - curator of architecture program Svetlana Konopleva, Svetlanа Litvinenkova, Anna Khakho, Daria Yudina, Dina Grigoryeva, Alexander Kirillov, Ruslan Davudov, Petr Shaposhnikov, Olga Vasyurina, Marianna Pavlichenkova, Elena Kalinovskaya, Danish Cultural Insitute Rikke Helms Nina Lebedeva CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Finland) Eija Salmi Justyna Maciak Isa Ojala
About the Project The project Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces united architects, designers, composers, musicians and representatives of the cultural institutions and city authorities from three countries of the Baltic region – Russia, Finland and Denmark. The project was organized by the St Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts in cooperation with the Dutch Cultural Institute and CUMULUS – Association of the Universities and colleges of Art, Design and Media, Finland, with the support from the European Union. The project was realized under the supervision of the Advisory Board that consists of the representatives of all three partner countries and three cities participating in the project. The project started in December, 2011 and lasted till January, 2014. Three cities where project took place are St Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Vyborg. Three main themes of the project are green architecture, design of public spaces for disabled and music inspired by architecture.
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Dear friends and colleagues, The booklet you are holding in your hand contains the outcomes of the Project titled Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces. We have spent little over two years working on this Project together with our partners and colleagues from the countries of the Baltic Sea Region. During this period we have organized: 3 educational trips to Denmark and Finland for the experts from cultural venues and officials from the municipalities; 7 lectures on Green Architecture and Design for All by Danish and Finnish experts; 2 master-classes on architecture and design for students from St. Petersburg architectural and art schools and universities; 2 training courses on museum design for St. Petersburg State University students; 2 exhibitions and 4 presentations; 3 creative discussions and 17 working meetings; 1 round-table discussion and 1 conference; 1 international children’s camp and 1 concert of “architectural music”. The number of participants in the Project’s events totaled over 20 thousand people. Fortunately the success in the field we work in is measured not in figures only. The Project has been completed – but specially designed spaces at three cultural venues in St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Vyborg will serve blind and visually impaired visitors; the music written by the composers from three countries will be performed at other concerts in other parts of the world; while young professionals – designers and architects – will use the knowledge they have acquired during lectures and master-classes in their new works. We are proud to say that we have created a Baltic professional network in the area of architecture, design and music. We would like to thank everyone who has provided assistance, first and foremost, our key partners: Danish Cultural Institute and Rikke Helms, CUMULUS International Association and Eija Salmi We are grateful for the support provided by: Delegation of the European Union to Russia and Tatiana Bokareva; The Project Advisory Board; St. Petersburg Culture Committee and Boris Illarionov; St. Petersburg Committee for Urban Development and Architecture and Yuri Mityurev; The State Hermitage Museum and Vladimir Matveev; St. Petersburg State University and Xenia Pozdnyakova; St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and Valery Nefedov. We express our thanks to our partners in the projects for blind and visually impaired visitors: Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg and Yelena Rogozina; Karelian Philharmonic in Petrozavodsk and Irina Ustinova; Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace and Natalya Pheophanova; St. Petersburg Library for the Blind and Olga Ustinova We convey our warmest greetings to all participants of the master-classes and encourage them not to stop at the goals they have achieved at PRO ARTE but to move on. Big thanks to everyone – wish we had more great project of this kind! Elena Kolovskaya Director St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts
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PRO ARTE Foundation has come up with a project poetically titled Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces to attract public attention to the real challenges of creating comfortable urban environment and access to cultural venues for visitors with disabilities. Over the past two years the Foundation has organized all sorts of events – lectures, presentations, workshops, master-classe and exhibitions working in partnership with European organisations and with the support of a grant recieved from European Union. The St Petersburg Committee for Culture found it very important that the project had a social focus. The organizers did a great job involving art students from various art schools in designing public spaces for visitors with special needs: when young people have to face such challenges, it means the society is changing, making it natural to care for those with disabilities. It is great that Design for All master-class, where students designed projects to adapt public cultural venues to the needs of blind and visually impaired visitors, resulted not only in students’ fantasies out to paper, but led to implementation of three design-projects in three cultural venues of the North-Western region: in the St. Petersburg Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace, in the Karelian Philharmonic and in the Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg. The St Petersburg Committee for Culture has always recognized the PRO ARTE Foundation not only as an institution where numerous innovations are being born, but also as a reliable partner. We sincerely hope the Foundation continues developing new and interesting long-term projects that will change our life for the better. Boris Illarionov First Deputy Chairman of the St Petersburg Committee for Culture, Member of the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces Project Advisory Board
The project Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces fascinates you by the way it manages to balance various activity areas, such as green architecture, design for all, contemporary music, arts and crafts activities for kids etc. Each of those could constitute a separate project, however they all serve the Project’s main goal – to use culture as a unifying force that knows no borders when incarnating creative visions and developing new ideas, no limits for professional experience and expertise. With the “Baltic network of design, architecture and music” being the ‘technical’ outcome of the Project, I still remember it as a series of exciting events: an outstanding and timely lecture by a Danish urbanist Jan Gehl, vivid presentations of the students’ works inspired by the experience of their colleagues from Scandinavia, and an amazing exhibition of design solutions for visually impaired library, museum and concert hall visitors in the Peter and Paul Fortress. Tatiana Bokareva Project Officer EU-Russia Cooperation Programme Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation
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Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces. The end of a project, the beginning of new perspectives. In February 2011 the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts (Russia) invited The DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE and CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Finland) to become partners of an EU-supported educational project including best experiences of environmental friendly architecture and design aimed on a better access for disabled people in public spaces, presented with a touch of music. From this day 1 I have been excited and impressed by the possibilities of the project. I remember the initial brain storming period, when ideas and suggestions for the collaboration and outcomes were discussed and the application was written. I remember the process of finding the right name for the project, a name, which would combine the three ingredients: architecture, design and music. And I remember the joy and challenge I felt, when the application was accepted and the project was going to be realized. During the whole two-year period of the project the professionalism of the Russian main partner PRO ARTE Foundation has been the driving force and the subject of my big and constant admiration. A very small team of devoted and competent people – with their enormous network in both administrative and professional spheres in three towns of North-West Russia - has been the model to us, their partners, to do our utmost to provide best experiences and partnerships in our countries. With the help of our networks in Denmark and Finland we have prepared the study trips for Russian architects, designers and administrative decision makers to Copenhagen and Helsinki. A summer camp, “Bridges” took place in 2012 in St. Petersburg for 30 teenagers and 6 teachers from the School of Visual Arts in Horsens, Denmark, the famous Arkki, School of Architecture for Children and Youth in Helsinki and the Design Center of the Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg. It turned out to be extremely productive with a large number of remarkable results, not only in terms of exhibition items, but also as an educational cross border cooperation between youngsters from the three countries. A long list of the most interesting Danish and Russian professional architects and designers has visited St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Petrozavodsk to give lectures and master classes for Russian colleagues and students. They have included the target audience, disabled people, in the process of designing better access to municipal cultural institutions like libraries, museums and concert halls. A multitude of actions and events, activating and including hundreds of professional administrators, architects, designers, institutional directors and employees, students and youngsters, has taken place during the two-years period of the project “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces”. The evident results are many, they have partly been shown at exhibitions and can be seen and heard in the documentation works on the website of Pro Arte. But I suppose that the main results are still to come, when the ideas and experiences, learned by the many exciting sub-projects will have settled in the minds of the participants and have inspired them to think of new perspectives in their professional work–with even more focus on the human aspect of life in the cities and the environmental sustainability and accessibility for all people. The final and closing touch to the project was the musical element. 4 young composers from Russia, Finland and Denmark have been asked to listen to the architecture of the three main cities involved, St. Petersburg, Helsinki and Copenhagen and to compose their spaces into music. The result of their experience was performed by the PRO ARTE eNsemble after the final conference at the Hermitage Theatre on the 18th December, 2013. The Danish Cultural Institute has been happy and proud to be a partner of this project. I would like to cordially thank the EU program Baltic Sea Region for the contribution to the project which in my opinion has generated a very big extra value for the money spent. Thanks to the main partner, PRO ARTE, to Cumulus and to all the participants from Russia, Finland and Denmark. Rikke Helms Director Danish Cultural Institute in St Petersburg
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Dear colleagues and friends, It was honor and pleasure for the Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media to be part of our joint visionary project for creating Baltic Network of Design, Architecture and Music - “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces”. The project started in the end of 2011 and involved our main partners the PRO ARTE Foundation and the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg, as well as cultural venues in St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Vyborg – Museum of Music in Sheremetev Palace, the Karelian State Philharmonic and the Central City Alvar Aalto Library. This project idea came up several years ago among us, when Elena Kolovskaya from the PRO ARTE Foundation and one colleague from one museum in St. Petersburg and me, we had a meeting where we were informally discussing the collaboration and - as its first target - developing museums. It was a starting point and later, step by step, together with other partners we planned a project aiming to introduce in Russia the best European experiences in the fields of environment friendly architecture and energy-saving building construction, design of public spaces for disabled people and design and architecture for children through a number of activities like study visits, a series of lectures and workshops with EU experts organized in St Petersburg. But also aiming to inspire some European experts about the potential of the partnering cities of Russia. The Cumulus Association today has 198 university members from 48 countries including Russia, but it is a fact that Cumulus can never have too much partnership with Russia. This project is a good example of collaboration that will be continued successfully with the methodology of sharing best practices and knowledge transfer. The project is having opportunities to bring new definitions of a human being in the center: an artist and/or designer being subject, client - the city, museum or organization - being mediator and the final user being the object. The emphasis of human-centeredness comes through the needs or aspirations. The project has indicated its capacity solving complicated issues that are extremely important – and a link to a concrete urban context in any action like our project is necessary. The project has produced new user-centered knowledge, it has given a kick to the use of design and planning concepts and solutions, it has been showing the use of inter-disciplinary methodologies for the further use, it has its value also in the participation, communication, governance and advocacy. The culture and the locality have met and will continue meeting. The project has linkage to the markets and business, too. St. Petersburg is the city as the first known place by Cumulus for arts and craftsmanship and of course still not to forget any other Russian city. It is for people to come and learn about arts but also an excellent kick-off platform to us university people who are so good to question things and share knowledge by getting together. Therefore, I feel today that it is never enough to speak in the name of education and research around the world about the Design for All which was part of our Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces project. Design for All means an intervention in environments, products and services with the aim that everyone, including future generations, regardless of age, gender, capabilities or cultural background, can enjoy participating in the construction of our society, with equal opportunities participating in economic, social, cultural, recreational and entertainment activities while also being able to access, use and understand whatever part of the environment with as much independence as possible. To apply Design for All concepts in products and services, some key principles should be taken into consideration: Make the use of piece of art, products and services easier for everyone. Ensure that the needs, wishes and expectations of users are taken into consideration in the design and evaluation processes of products or services. The Arts has the capacity to transform itself to serve people. This is wellbeing. And Wellbeing and Arts are part of the actions of universities to collaborate with the society. The wellbeing is important for communities like Cumulus to be aware of. We have had the pleasure of sharing the project over the years among our global members and being able even to reach 300.000 students among our Cumulus. Design for All is a very important part of education and research in art, design and media. Through this project we have been able to flag again for the topic world around by sharing the knowledge among the project partners and people and through the unique opportunity to collaborate with Russia. I believe our project embraced and left an undestructible mark on the thinking of young designers, architects and composers, museum and libraries professionals, architects, musicians, teachers and tutors, students, children and people with disabilities. It has been great to collaborate with our institutional partners in the three cities. We have shared the best European and Russian practices in the fields of the project. Our action has created opportunities where Russian, Finnish 8
and Danish professionals can exchange ideas and share experiences, thus strengthening EU-Russia cooperation in the field of creative economies. This has been for sure only a small start but the rivers, lakes and the sea start always with a drop. I can only summarize, Cumulus will be honored to continue collaboration. I have to thank all the partners and people through them, the Advisory Board of the Project, the Government of St Petersburg, the Cultural Committee of the Government of St Petersburg, the Department of Art of the St. Petersburg University, Art School in Petrozavodsk, the Hermitage and Pro Arte Foundation, and the Danish Cultural Institute and please excuse me if forgetting to mention all the passionate people around the project from Russia, Denmark, Germany and Finland. Without the unique support of the European Union project funding this would not have been possible in this scale. Here we are today: the multifaceted project is in its end. The end brings us something new. Eija Salmi Secretary General Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges in Art, Design and Media
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Newsletter №1 Dear colleagues and friends, we are glad to report to you about our first activities in the project “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces”:
Establishing of the Project Committee The Project Committee was formed during the starting period of the project. There are 19 members from Russia, Denmark and Finland including representatives of local city authorities, cultural institutions, universities and academies, representatives of the associations of disabled people, architects. Vladimir Vasilyev, Chairman of the Committee for External Economic Cooperation of the Vyborg Municipal Union of the Leningrad region; Boris Illarionov, Deputy Chairman of the Cultural Committee of St. Petersburg City Government; Elena Kolovskaya, Director of the St Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation, «Listening Architecture, Composing Spaces» Project leader; Vyacheslav Kuspak, Chief Architect of Petrozavodsk; Vladimir Matveev, Deputy Director of the State Hermitage Museum; Natalia Metelitsa, Director of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music; Yury Mityuryov, Chief Architect of St Petersburg, Vice-Chairman of Architecture and Urban Planning Committee of the St Petersburg City Government; Rogozina Elena, Director of the Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg; Eija Salmi, Secretary General of the CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, Helsinki; Elena Sologub, Director of the Centre for Cultural Initiatives, Petrozavodsk; Ivan Uralov, Vice-Chairman of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Arts of the St Petersburg State University, Honoured Artist of Russia; Irina Ustinova, Director of the Karelian State Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk; Olga Ustinova, Director of the Library for the Blind, St Petersburg; Natalia Feklicheva, Director of the Karelian Republican Library for the Blind, Petrozavodsk; Rikke Helms, Director of the Danish Cultural Institute, St Petersburg; Helena Hyvonen, Dean of the School for Arts, Design and Architecture of the Alvar Aalto University, Helsinki Teimuraz Tscheminava, Head of the Department of Social Services of the Social Policy Committee of the St Petersburg City Government; Alexander Cherukanov, Head of the Department of Methodical Management for Rehabilitation of Disabled People, of Social Policy Committee of St Petersburg City Government; Nikita Yavein, Head of the “Studio 44” Architectural Company, Honoured Architect of Russia, St Petersburg.
Press-conference On February 27, 2012 the press-conference devoted to the start of the Project was held in the Cultural Committee of the Government of St Petersburg. Four members of the Project Committee took part in the press-conference: Boris Illarionov, Vice-Chairman of the Cultural Committee of the Government of St Petersburg, Konstantin Mityurev, the Chief Architect of St Petersburg and Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Architecture and Urban Planning of the Government of St Petersburg, Elena Kolovskaya, Director of the PRO ARTE Foundation, Ivan Uralov, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Arts Department of the St Petersburg State University.
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Selection of the cultural institutions The cultural institutions for hosting design projects for visually impaired and blind people in 2013 were selected. Design projects will be implemented in one museum, one concert hall and one library: in St Petersburg in Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace (St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music), in Petrozavodsk in Karelian State Philharmonic Hall and in Vyborg in Alvar Aalto Library.
«Cities for People» lecture by Jan Gehl (Denmark) On March 6, 2012 the 1st lecture on green architecture by famous Danish architect Jan Gehl was held in the lecture hall of the PRO ARTE Foundation in Peter and Paul Fortress. The lecture was organized by the Danish Cultural Institute in St Petersburg and the PRO ARTE Foundation and was addressed to students and young architects. It was devoted to the unique Danish experience of making Copenhagen «the city for people» especially comfortable for pedestrians and cyclists. Jan Gehl also spoke about «copenhagenization» of other capitals – New York, Sydney and Mexico City and shared his ideas on city planning in Petersburg. You can find video of Jan Gehl’s lecture (of April 12, 2012) on www.proarte.ru.
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Press: • About the press-conference. The Internet portal fontanka.ru , 28.02.2012 www.fontanka.ru/2012/02/28/002/ • An interview with Jan Gehl. The Internet portal fontanka.ru , 28.02.2012 www.fontanka.ru/2012/03/12/165/ • About the press-conference. Information Agency «REGNUM» www.regnum.ru/news/1503374.html
Newsletter № 2 Dear colleagues, We keep informing you about the ‘Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces’ project, and would love to share our experience on three trips made in February, March and April 2012.
Helsinki, Copenhagen and Horsens: Educating Children in Architecture and Design February 20-25, 2012 experts from Russia, Finland and Denmark who are organizers of the international children’s camp visited their colleagues from the Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland) and the Art School at Horsens Art Museum (Denmark). During their visit to the Danish Architecture Center and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art (Denmark) experts learned about activities carried out by their partner organizations and had a chance to share their experiences. The trip proved to be of great importance as it enabled the participants to develop educational and cultural program for the children’s camp. The camp is to be organized in St. Petersburg in August 2012 and will be focused on educating children in architecture and design. The Participants of the Study Tour “Educating Children in Architecture and Design” (to Helsinki, Copenhagen and Horsens): Rikke Helms – Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg; Olga Grankvist – Acting Head of the Communication Policy Department, Head of the International Activities Department, St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Galina Korneva – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Ivan Gerts – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Mari Pauliina Jaakonaho – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Jannik Broz Lorentzen – Director, Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark)
Helsinki: Design for All March 26-28, 2012 a group of Russian experts who represent cultural organizations of Vyborg, Petrozavodsk and St. Petersburg set off on a journey to Helsinki to study Finnish practices in organizing spaces for the blind and visually impaired users. During the trip the experts learned about the Finnish concept of ‘Design for All’ through guided tours and presentations given at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture of Aalto University, Ateneum Art Museum and KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as at the Helsinki House of Music and IIRIS Center, the latter designed especially for the blind, visually and hearing-impaired visitors. As a result of the visit, the lecture of the professor of Aalto University Marjo Mäenpää was organized in St. Petersburg. Her presentation was about adapting design for all groups of population. Lecture of Marjo Mäenpää - www.proarte.ru/ru/calendar/?id=1110 Report - www.proarte.ru/ru/programm/ek_report1 Photo album - www.vk.com/album-379354_155490027
Copenhagen: Green Architecture April 3-6, 2012: study trip to Copenhagen for a group of architects, architectural critics and professors of architecture from St. Petersburg universities and school of architecture took place. The group visited offices of two famous architectural bureaus: 3XN and BIG and explored the objects developed by the latter - Mountain, VM-House and House 8; the participants also visited exhibitions displaying environmentally friendly materials and recycling technologies. Denmark is a leader in energy-saving technologies, and its experience proves one can create green architecture even in Northern countries. Kim Nielsen (Copenhagen) and Antti Ahlava (Helsinki) will deliver lectures on the subject in St. Petersburg (see announcement). 12
Lecture of Kim Nielsen: www.proarte.ru/ru/calendar/?id=1111 Lecture of Antti Ahlava: www.proarte.ru/ru/calendar/?id=1115 Report: www.proarte.ru/ru/programm/ek_report2 Photo album: www.vk.com/album-379354_157135014 Press: • About the trip to Copenhagen. The Internet portal Archi.ru • About the trip to Helsinki. The Radio of All-Russian Society of Blind People www.radiovos.ru
Study trip to Helsinki
Study trip to Copenhagen
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Study visit to Helsinki: Design for All March 26 - 28, 2012 On March 26-28, 2012 the study visit to Finland was organized for Russian specialists from St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Vyborg. The goal of the study tour was to allow the representatives of local authorities, cultural institutions, teachers and designers of the named cities to become acquainted with the best Finnish practices in the field of design of public spaces for disabled people, in particular for the blind and visually impaired. The tour was one of study visits planned within the project “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces”, organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts (Russia) and CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media (Finland). The study tour started with a visit to the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Arabia. Professor Marjo Maenpää, Media Factory manager Juhani Tenhumen and International Affairs coordinator Hanna Karkku presented projects of the University, related to the “design for all” concept, which is about ensuring that environments, products and services work for both people without disabilities and for people with disabilities, also for children, for the elderly, immigrants and for people of all ages and abilities in different situations and under various circumstances. The visit included guided tour of Aalto ARTS and Media Factory. Next visit was to the Department of Architecture of Aalto ARTS in Espoo. The Head of the Department of Architecture Prof. Antti Ahlava made a presentation on sustainable city development and projects in this field that include solutions of easy access for all. Dr. Kimmo Lylykangas, researcher and an architect, presented a speech on the environmentally friendly, sustainable architecture and construction in Finland. Ira Verma, project manager of the Department and a researcher of the Institute for Health Care Facilities Sotera, presented several projects, where barrier-free design for people with disabilities was applied; for example, the stations of the metro in Helsinki and Kamppi bus station. During the study tour to Helsinki the participants have also visited a number of municipal organizations and cultural institutions, where the projects on design of public spaces for blind and visually impaired were implemented. Helsinki Music Centre, which was opened on 31 August 2011, is entirely designed for all groups of physically challenged people. The Communication Coordinator Marja-Leena Lehtimaki gave a tour of the Music Centre. She explained how the special-purposed system of navigation for blind and visually impaired visitors works throughout the building. The whole enormous building of the Music Centre is equipped with guiding lines on floor. It is also filled with all sorts of equipment for disabled such as lifts, access ramps, stairs signs, rail signs, etc. All information signs around the building are duplicated by Braille labels. Beside this, the tactile map of the building is placed in the entrance hall. There is also a place for parking guide dogs. The next venue to visit was the Ateneum Museum, where participants met Rita Paqvalen, a manager of Culture for All project, which is the service, offering information and tools for workers in the cultural field all around Finland to improve accessibility of their institutions. The participants of the study tour became acquainted with the special program of the Ateneum Museum for disabled people which allows to order a special guide tour or study event for disabled people, to get
Workroom in the Aalto University
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tactile maps of the museum building at the lobby and so on. There are several sculptures in the museum available for the “exploration by hands”, which are marked by special signs. Another museum the study group visited was the KIASMA Museum for Contemporary Art, where along with the tactile maps and special excursions offered, there is a small model of a museum, which is available to touch it and “see by hands”. One of the most exiting things to find out was the fact that the museum encourages some contemporary artists to make small copies of their works (such as installations, sculptures) - to allow children, visually impaired and blind people to touch them and have an impression of such art works. All this information we received from Sanna Hirvonen, a curator of Educational programs of the KIASMA Museum. On the last day of the study visit the group attended IIRIS - the Service and Activity Centre for the Visually Impaired, which was specifically designed for blind, partially sighted and deaf-blind visitors. The Iiris Centre houses all main national-scale and capital city area services for visually impaired persons, such as Association of Visually Impaired in Helsinki and Uusimaa, Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired and number of cultural, rehabilitation, training and employment services for visually impaired. In the evenings and weekends the premises are at the disposal of visually impaired people organizations and hobby groups, which conduct meetings, lectures and entertainment events. All services which earlier were spread around Helsinki are now easily found “under one roof”, which is a slogan of the IIRIS Centre. After the presentation on the Design for Disabled by Juha Seppala, researcher and collaborator of the IIRIS Centre there was a tour around the IIRIS Centre conducted by Jukka Jokiniemi, consultant on Design for All who is also a designer from Innojok - a company that offers visually ergonomic lighting. The IRIS Centre building has a simple and easy-remembered plan, visually impaired visitors can learn the plan by the tactile map which was created by the famous Japanese architect Nao Saito and is placed by the entrance. The space inside the building is organized according to all requirements of Design for All and for blind and visually impaired in particular, and includes duplication of all information signs by Braille labels, sound beacons, contrasting colors and different tactile materials used to make the zones of the building different from each other. Particular attention paid to avoidance of the reflective spots of light on the surfaces which could mislead visually impaired people who could perceive them as windows or door openings. The Iiris Centre houses “Celia” - the biggest state-owned Library for the Visually Impaired which produces and lends special material throughout the country: talking books, Braille books, electronic books, relief picture materials, and study materials for visually impaired children and adults. Some of design practices the participants became acquainted with during the study visit to Finland - such as tactile maps, fixed stoppers and guiding signs - are already in use in Russia. Some museums organize special tours and educational programs for visually impaired and blind people. However, the acquaintance with the Finnish practices in the field of design of public spaces for disabled has greatly helped Russian specialists to realize the importance of a comprehensive approach to addressing such issues. Such approach implies an initial projecting, designing and construction of a building according to the needs of as much different groups of people as possible. In Russia there are some individual successful projects in this field, but there is also need to attract attention of the civil society to such issues and to mobilize designers and architects working with public spaces to implement such projects.
Helsinki Music Centre
Tactile map in IIRIS center
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During the study tour a few working meetings for the project coordinators and the Finish professionals took place, during which the agreement to continue cooperation was reached. Therefore as a result of the study visit a series of open lectures and workshops with the Finish experts on “design for all” with whom we met will be organized in St. Petersburg later this year. There will be a practical realization of received knowledge in a number of projects designed specially for disabled people attending municipal institutions. In particular, three best students’ design projects for visually impaired and blind people will be implemented in three cultural institutions in three cities of the North-Western region of Russia: the State Museum of Theatre and Music (Sheremetievsky Palace) in St.Petersburg, the Karelian State Philharmonic Hall in Petrozavodsk and the Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg. The participants of the study tour: Rogozina Elena, Director of the Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg Ustinova Olga, Director of the Library for the Blind, St. Petersburg Kirillova Elena, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music, Head of the Development Division, St. Petersburg Tolstova Alexandra, Senior Lecturer, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Design, St. Petersburg Kulikova Margarita, Karelian Republican Library for the Blind, Head of the Innovation and Methodical Supply Division, Petrozavodsk • Yudina Daria, PRO ARTE Foundation, project coordinator, St. Petersburg • Khvoenkova Natalia, PRO ARTE Foundation, project coordinator, St. Petersburg • • • • •
Kulikova Margarita, Karelian Republican Library for the Blind, Head of the Innovation and Methodical Supply Division, Petrozavodsk “During the guided tour around the Helsinki Music Centre I was given an opportunity to find out how the tasks of “adaptation” of interior space of public places for needs of physically challenged people are decided. The Music Centre strikes not only by its grand scale and new technologies involved, but by well thought-out ways of accessibility for disabled. This includes the relief map of the building placed by the entrance, guiding lines leading to the main facilities (lifts, music halls, staircases, restrooms), restrictive signs on glass walls and surfaces, etc. I was able to make photos of all that and share them with my colleagues on my arrival to Petrozavodsk. Music which is the most perceivable by the blind people form of art became more accessible for them even in terms of “physical” accessibility of the Music Centre building”. Tolstova Alexandra, Senior Lecturer, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Design, St. Petersburg “I think that it is very important for us to borrow from our Finnish colleagues the perception of the design as a strategic thinking. That is more universal understanding of design when not only physical accessibility is important but also culturological, social and informational openness matters. All that is included in the notion of “multiple-sensitive design” that takes into account all human senses, but not the only sight”. Ustinova Olga, Director of the Library for the Blind, St. Petersburg “The most interesting thing for me was a meeting with experts from the Department of Architecture of the Aalto University. All what they told and have shown us about design for disabled people in various public spaces, in particular for blind and visually impaired, was of extreme interest to me. There was also very interesting visit to the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, where we were shown the Media Lab. I was not familiar before with such advanced equipment which could produce material models from the 3D digital images. I am thinking about possibility of getting and using such machines to produce materials as an additional source of education and information for blind and visually impaired children in our Library for the Blind. Surely, the Ateneum Museum was worth visiting. I liked the practice to mark with a special sign certain museum objects which are available for disable people, especially for blind and visually impaired. It is important that such people are given opportunity to receive information about each of this exhibit. That is an example of effective administration.” Rogozina Elena, Director of the Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg “The aim of our trip was to study how cultural institutions of Helsinki organize their premises for the needs of blind and visually impaired people. The study tour gave me understanding how we can make a municipal public library more accessible and put into practice the motto of “barrier-free world”. Besides clear understanding of how better organize the space of a particular library for all groups of people, I got a lot of information how to attract public attention to issues of purposeful architecture and design, and how to use new media and technologies. A huge surprise was to find that special-purposed libraries almost completely gave up paper media. High level of technical equipment in the libraries is very impressive. Providing accessibility of all services for physically challenged people starts with psychological rehabilitation and adaptation of such people and teaches the society to communicate with them. There is a huge need to reduce numbers of both physical (at homes, in the street, in public transport) and psychological barriers in Russia”. 16
Study visit to Copenhagen: Green Architecture April 3-6, 2012 On April 3-6, 2012 the study visit to Copenhagen took place in frame of the project “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces”. The visit was addressed to architects, journalists and professors of architectural universities from St Petersburg. The aim of the visit was exploring architectural objects and technologies of green architecture. The visit was organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation and Danish Cultural Institute. Participants visited two famous architectural bureaus specialized on green architecture. In the office of 3XN the group was met by Mr. Jack Renteria, Head of International Markets. He hold a short excursion round the studio, presented working spaces and models of buildings. As the result of the discussion between Mr. Renteria and representatives of the PRO ARTE it was decided to hold a lecture by Kim Herforth, Principal and Founder of 3XN Archi-tects Nielsen in PRO ARTE on May 17 2012. The lecture will be held in frame of the project «Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces». It was also suggested that a week-long master-class for young architects in the end of 2012 will be lead by 3XN. In the office of BIG the presentation of objects was held as well as tour around the studio The Russian group took part in the brief on-line video session with the New York office of BIG.
Jack Renteria at the office
The office of the bureau 3XN
Danish architect Andreas Trier Mørch guided city walking tour to green buildings at the district where commercial buildings – banks, offices, hotels – are connected with zones for leisure and sport, like at Mountainside, where special surfaces for skateboarders are placed between business-centers. It was also interesting to see examples of reconstructions as residence Gemini Residence - Harbour Pods which was rebuilt from a forage tower.
Asser Munch
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The central event was visiting of 3 famous objects of residences, created by BIG: Mountain, VM-House and House 8. The excursion was arranged for the group which was conducted by the architect Asser Munch, who made a detailed presentation of the objects. Three-hour excursion included studying work materials and visiting of 2 apartments. In frame of the program the group visited DR-byen (Danish Radio) where Niels Erik Lund, Head of Facilities guided an excursion in the new concert hall projected by Jean Nouvel. In Danish Design Center the participants of the study visit found more about tendencies of design since 1950s till nowadays as well as saw an exhibition of new materials. The part of the program was visiting of Danish Architectural Center (DAC). It is notable that there was also opened an exhibition presenting new materials in architecture. An important place was given to ecological, green materials. In DAC the Russian group got possibility to buy books on green architecture. One-hour boat tour was included in the program. It was a wonderful chance to see from water famous new buildings of Copenhagen: Opera, Drama Theatre, the Library (Black Diamond). It was also evident how new architecture changes image of the city not being in conflict with historical buildings. The participants of the visit: Galina Archipenko, Head of the Property Department, Committee on Culture of the St.Petersburg Government Xenia Schastlivtseva, architect, Studio 44, St Petersburg Valerij Nefjodov, Dr. of Architecture, Professor of the Department of Urbanism and Town-Designing of the St.Petersburg University of Architecture and Construction. Dmitry Prokhorov, architectural journalist, St Petersburg Svetlana Litvinenkova, program coordinator, PRO ARTE Foundation, St. Petersburg Ekaterina Puzankova, program coordinator, PRO ARTE Foundation, St. Petersburg Valery Nefedov, Professor at the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering: “I was dazzled by the people who work in BIG and 3XN! They were mostly 30-35 year-olds – an amazing age group (judging by Russian standards) that enables to create real modern architecture (and this architecture has already been created in Copenhagen) without looking back to veterans. The atmosphere you feel there proves they follow ‘creative team’ model (with no boss being dignified as a single leader); here All members of the team share the authorship which is a complete opposite to the socalled ‘corporation for stagnation’ principle when only ‘renowned’ and ‘traditionalist’ architects are entrusted with construction and development. What I did like: - the way the state of the city environment, renovated industrial and storage facilities, embankments, open urban spaces reflect the priority of creating normal conditions for all age groups to live and entertain; - landmark cultural objects (such as the Opera and the Playhouse, the Library) are emphasized by the means of real modern architecture; they are accessible and open to perception from long distances in the system of embankments that form strong cultural axes in the city. - constantly increasing the number of lanes for cycle traffic in most city streets reducing the proportion of vehicle traffic accordingly; - using natural components as the key means to create living space for people and guarantee environmental sustainability including creation of ‘green roofs (8 House, Mountain House), recreational areas for transit passengers in the airport etc.; - preserving the heritage without making a fetish of it treating it as a sacred context with no right to meddle and erect new buildings within its scope (compare with the new business and commercial centre next to the City Hall); What surprised me: - holding up to the environmental ideology when creating environmentally friendly zones not only by excluding vehicles from the city but by remodeling the architecture itself making it a part of the natural environment, enhancing the presence of ‘green’ elements in the structure of the buildings; - developing new trends in design by using natural materials (such as corn, mushrooms etc.) as the green architecture media; - integrated approach: treating space of several residential houses as a single functional space that enables developers to build a parking facility for 600 (!!!) vehicles in the basement of one of the houses with no harm done to the green architecture on the surface of the parking lot (Mountain House) otr to other residential buildings. What could be used in our case: - create a framework that gives a chance to develop for the new generations of young architects: arrange international workshops, seminars and master-classes beyond the scope of local ‘city-experts’ with their ‘historical priorities’ and horror stories about modern architecture being incompatible with the heritage; 18
- follow Denmark’s experience in creating ‘green architecture’ with free forms based on consistent inclusion of modern design engineering and creating architectural spaces where natural components blend in with the buildings; - create conditions to involve the population into data streams that deliver information about contemporary ‘green’ architecture thus overcoming a gap between the local urban mentality and real values of contemporary architecture; - involve as many foreign experts as possible: they should be able to show how green architecture can be made possible and help to overcome ecological illiteracy (when approaching costly urban architecture devoid of any ecological or energy-efficiency meaning); - using all media facilities to advocate ‘green’ solutions: publish articles on the newest ‘green’ buildings designed in other countries in newspapers and magazines, arrange TV programs dedicated to ‘green’ architecture; - developing an ‘environmental’ information platform to bring together experts from various fields including marketing, development, technology, architecture, design etc. in an attempt to overcome stagnation in the city’s architecture; - conduct a master-class on experimental design of ‘green’ objects with various functions (residential houses, office-buildings, banks, hotels, community centres for young people) in cooperation with the architects from Copenhagen to prove that it is possible to use a radically new approach and organize architectural space including natural components.” Xenia Schastlivtseva, architect, Studio 44: “What did surprise me was this master skill and complete lack of fear the Danish architects have when creating ultramodern architectural objects in the contexts of the old housing developments; at the same time they manage to avoid pseudohistorical style that local customers and architects favor so much. The fact that they view a building not as a stand-alone object complying to a certain set of functions and customer’s requests but rather as a link between the closest neighboring buildings taking into consideration various requirements provided by the city and the people who inhabit it… Take for example the building of the National Archives with a garden on the accessible roof area and public parking spaces hidden under a green surface, or the SEBbank building with concrete skateboard ramps and a birch wood (another good example of how to make public space function separately, apart from the bank), a huge parking lot in mountain-dwellings meant for the people who live in the neighborhood. I was impressed by the way the houses lay open – in all aspects; there are no barriers that would ruin their exterior and prevent those poking about from getting in (as well as total absence of parapets along the embankments. The idea of bringing people closer, to create a community of neighbors through clever architectural planning by introducing recreational areas, public spaces, zones meant both for leisure an sports, areas where neighbors’ kids can communicate directly like in mountain-dwellings, where they can visit each other running through their neighbors’ terraces, felt like a personal discovery.” Dmitry Novick, journalist: “Two exhibitions that were running in the Danish Design Centre and Danish Architecture Centre were quite illustrative. The designers showed an exhibition on recycling and ecology, the architects demonstrated new, environmentally friendly materials. No designer frills, no smashing architectural projects. And it’s not because they don’t exist. We did see some in the offices of 3XN and BIG bureaus. It’s the scale of community values is organized in a different way”. The PRO ARTE Foundation appreciates assistance of Andreas Trier Mørch, Niels Erik Lund, Mette Emig and Jack Renteria and expresses special thanks to the Dannish Cultural Institute and the director of St Petersburg branch Rikke Helms.
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Newsletter № 3 Dear friends and colleagues. In May, 2012 we had three lectures on design for people with disabilities and on Green Architecture. Both topics are essential for our ‘Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces’ project and we are happy to share information about the events.
Design for All. Lecture by Marjo Mäenpää (Finland) May 15, 2012
“Design for all” is a concept, which is about ensuring that environments, products and services work for both people without disabilities and for people with disabilities, also for children, for the elderly, immigrants and for people of all ages and abilities in different situations and under various circumstances. Marjo Mäenpää, Professor of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture in the Aalto University presented Finnish experience in adapting public spaces and cultural facilities to the needs of various groups that include not only people with disabilities, but also elderly people, pregnant women, children, migrants and homeless people. In November, December, 2012 Marjo Mäenpää will conduct master-classes for St. Petersburg students that should result in design projects to be developed in three cultural institutions: St. Petersburg: Museum of Theater an Musical Art and Sheremetyev Palace; Alvar Aalto Central City-Library in Vyborg; and Karelian State Philharmonics in Petrozavodsk. . • Video - https://vimeo.com/43411873 • Audio file - http://www.mixcloud.com/ProArte/lecture-of-marjo-maenpaa-design-for-all-15052012pro-arte/ Press: • Designer Marjo Mäenpää: Education is the best way to change the world , The Internet portal fontanka.ru 08.06.2012 www.fontanka.ru/2012/06/08/176/
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Green Architecture. Lecture by Kim Nielsen (Denmark) May 17, 2012
3XN Architectural Studio is widely known as one of Denmark’s most reputable and innovative companies. In his lecture, founder and principal of 3XN Studio presented their most important projects based on the eco-design principle. The architect also told about the Studio’s special GXN Research Group that enables the company to enhance its ‘Green Portfolio’. Developing new approaches, as well as new building materials (i.e. using corn or specific mushroom species) experts from 3XN create contemporary, ground-breaking and humane architecture. In autumn, 2012 the architect from Denmark will conduct a master-class during which the students will try their hand in designing their own “green” buildings. • Video - https://vimeo.com/43130769 • Audio file – http://www.mixcloud.com/ProArte/lecture-of-kim-nielsen-green-architecture-17052012pro-arte/
Press: • Architect Kim Nielsen about green architecture\ http://www.the-village.ru/village/city/infrastructure/113845-kim-nilsen-zelenaya-arhitektura • Copenhagen. Looking into the future: reorganization of Industrial districts in the capital of Denmark http://www.spbvedomosti.ru/article.htm?id=10289158@SV_Articles
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Sustainable Urban Design. Lecture by Antti Ahlava (Finland) May 31, 2012
The lecture delivered by Antti Ahlava, architect and partner at HELSINKIZURICH and Head of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University was deicated to the concept of Sustainability in modern urban design, featuring a general classification of the field, description of various energy saving methods, and presentation of commissioned project examples by his Studio: Espoo Centre and Finnoo Centre, both in Finland. Espoo Centre is a large-scale urban regeneration project and Finnoo a new ecological town near Helsinki. All these project share the idea of “sustainability”, i.e. reasonable approach towards urban planning in which three dimensions – architecture, engineering and environmental awareness become equally important. • Audio file – http://www.mixcloud.com/ProArte/lecture-of-antti-ahlava-sustainable-urban-design-31052012-pro-arte/ • Video – https://vimeo.com/43729003
Newsletter № 4 Dear colleagues and friends, we are pleased to inform you of the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces project held this summer.
International Summer Camp for Children August 3 - 11, 2012
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On 3-11 August the Danish Cultural Institute held an international summer camp on children’s education in architecture and design. 28 students (12 to 17 years old) and 6 teachers from St Petersburg, Horsens (Denmark), and Helsinki (Finland) came to the camp. The intercultural dialogue started with a walk through St Petersburg and introduction of its architectural ensembles. The participants attended the Children’s Design Centre at the Anichkov palace, and the Zerkalny Countryside Centre of Youth Creativity. The programme then proceeded with three national days: Russian, Finnish, and Danish. The representatives of each school told about their country, presented their education programmes, prepared creative assignments to be done during the day as well as games and competitions in the evening. The classes ended with the Bridge Project, the idea of which was to link times, people, countries, and cultures: five working groups created five art objects in different media (animation, graphic, modelling, and installation). The presentation of the results of the summer camp will take place at the Danish Cultural Institute on 22 September 2012, which is the Open Day in terms of the Europe Day. Teachers of the international summer camp: • Galina Korneva and Ivan Gerts, Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); • Jannik Broz Lorentzen and Helle Vinter, Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); • Minna-Mari Paija and Mari Pauliina Jaakonaho, School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland). Photo album - www.vk.com/album-379354_162562298?act=edit
Master classes November - December, 2012 In summer the organisers of the Listening to Music, Composing Spaces project made an agreement about giving master classes for young designers and architects at the PRO ARTE Foundation. On November 12 - 16, 2012 professionals from Danish architecture office LETH & GORI (www.lethgori.dk) will hold a seminar on eco-modelling and green technologies. Participants (students of architecture schools) will create projects of residential house, cultural centre, and a bank. In December 2012 Marjo Mäenpää, professor of Media Management in Aalto University School of Art, will give a master class for young designers on creating projects for visually impaired in three cultural institutions: Music Museum (Sheremetev palace) in St Petersburg, Alvaro Aalto Library in Vyborg and Philharmonic Hall in Petrozavodsk. The 3 best projects will be implemented in 2013.
Newsletter № 5 5 days of green architecture in the PRO ARTE Foundation On November 22, 2012 four concepts of «green» architectural projects were presented in PRO ARTE. During the five-day Green Architecture master class which was held in PRO ARTE on November, 18–22, students of architecture came up with various suggestions on how to save energy and create an eco-friendly environment. The master class was supervised by the Danish experts on sustainable architecture - Victoria Diemer Bennetzen and Hiroshi Kato, co-founders of KATOxVictoria creative office (Copenhagen, Denmark), and Valeriy Anatolyevich Nefedov, an architect, Doctor of Architecture and professor of Urban Planning Department at Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The master class was attended by 22 senior students of St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Ilya Repin St Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, and Shtiglitz St Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design. After five days of intensive work young architects came up with the concepts of four building types: residence building, recreation centre, bank and hotel. Photo Album: • Master class and its result in our photo album - www.vk.com/album-379354_16590195 Press: • Eco-hotel, Bank and Recreation Centre Projects Developed for Saint Petersburg, The Village, http://www.the-village.ru/ village/city/architecture/119952-studenty-peterburga-sozdali-proekty-ekologicheskoy-gorodskoy-arhitektury 23
Projects ECO GAME Hotel
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Students discuss their project with the workshop leaders
This project defines a new way to preserve the environment in the form of a game. There are two rules in the hotel: save energy and generate it. The cost of hotel accommodation directly depends on the energy saved and generated by the residents. Hotel’s main lobby is powered by wind generated energy and has a screen with the results of the energy saved and generated by the guests in each room. The results are lit on the façade in red, blue and green LEDs depending on the amount of saved and generated energy, making the hotel’s façade interactive. The hotel’s guests compete with each other because they can stay at the hotel free of charge by generating and saving the sufficient amount of energy.
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Projects The Circle Residence Building
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Students discuss their project with the workshop leaders
The project’s aim is to create an attractive living place you want to return to after a day’s work. The project also has a social function: cafés, gyms, shops and nursery schools are all located on the ground floor, and all areas are interconnected. Central public space is formed by the river and its embankment. This idea is also relevant for Saint Petersburg - to give a new life to unsightly rivers at the city outskirts. Project design also included possible issues caused by the weather conditions at Saint Petersburg. Multiple levels of the embankments allow them to respond to changing water level and serve various functions depending on the season (ice rink or summer terraces with café); the project also includes covered yards with transparent roof that allow the sunshine and protect against bad weather. According to the design on young architects, cascaded yards will have small artificial ponds and it will be possible to grow vegetables and flowers near them; and it will be possible to use the wind and sun energy, as well as rainwater and thawing snow, to reduce electricity costs
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Projects The Tree Bank
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Students discuss their project with the workshop leaders
The concept of a “green” office is based on the tree structure: its roots are the bank vault, its trunk and branches are vertical routes of communication between areas, its leaves and fruits are rooms and terraces that can be pushed forward outdoors or retracted back, depending on the season. Central atrium with its planted trees serves as a natural filter to clean the air in the building, and the greenery is planted by cardinal directions: the south side has more trees and large bushes that protect from the sun in summer time, while the north side has Japanese-style gardens with minimum greenery (little shrubs, gramineous plants, etc.) to allow maximum sunlight. The use of solar panels and rainwater collection system will ensure maximum cost effectiveness and eco-friendliness of the project
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Projects Recreation Centre in Residential District
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Students discuss their project with the workshop leaders
The project allows to create universal recreation areas for outdoor activities in the yards in residential districts, in sandlots or former industrial areas - places where the idea of recreation itself seems impossible. “Green architecture” is viewed not only as a possibility to use modern technology to save and accumulate energy; it is also an environment best adapted to natural conditions. The project suggests the fusion of nature and architecture. It is based on natural landscape, and building geometry follows terrain. The bulk of the building is en rapport with the landscape. The necessary functional units of the Recreation Centre form a new city park.
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Newsletter №6 Design for all workshop December 3 - 7, 2012 Saint-Petersburg On December 3 -7, 2012, Pro Arte Foundation featured Design for All workshop aimed at creating projects that help to adapt public spaces to the needs of the blind and visually impaired. The workshop was conducted by Marjo Mäenpää, Professor of Media Management in Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Assistance: Irina Golovenok, St Petersburg architect and designer. Workshop objectives include developing projects for three cultural venues in St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Petrozavodsk scaled to needs of blind and visually impaired visitors: • Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music • The Karelian State Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk)) • The Central City Alvar Aalto Library (Vyborg) The key task of the workshop is to create new concepts meant to help people with special needs integrate into society to the full extent. 26 young designers and architects were selected to participate in the workshop after an open competition in October, 2012. • 19 November, 2012 St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired provided an introductory lecture for the participants. The meeting was hosted by Olga Ustinova – the Chief Librarian and Tatyana Serova – Deputy Chief Librarian. • During November, 2012 the workshop participants made trips to the Alvar Aalto Library in Vyborg, Karelian State Philharmonic in Petrozavodsk and to Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music. Young architects and designers had a chance to examine the venues they had to work with during the workshop, meet staff members from the venues and representatives of the National Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.
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• 29 November, 2012 – lecture by Alexander Reichstein (Finland) in the PRO ARTE Foundation lecture space. The lecturer – author of numerous museum exhibitions told about his installations, temporary exhibitions and permanent museum displays. All his projects are aimed at wider audiences, including families, children’s groups and people with disabilities. Alexander Reichstein made a detailed description of his first touring exhibition for blind and visually impaired children “Poems to the Touch”, created in 2011 for the Anna Akhmatova Museum and later displayed at schools for blind and visually impaired children in St. Petersburg and Leningradskaya oblast’.
Design for All workshop On December 3 -7, 2012 PRO ARTE Foundation lecture space featured Design for All workshop aimed at creating projects that help to adapt public spaces to the needs of the blind and visually impaired. During five days the participants had to develop navigation and accessibility projects for blind and visually impaired visitors in three cultural venues, produce working models for tactile maps and prepare PowerPoint presentations, as well as write research reports covering major problems in planning and design of public spaces at cultural venues and present possible solutions.
Group work with the workshop leader Marjo Mäenpää
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Projects Independence through Music
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Tactile map
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Projects for the Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music (Branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music) Project team: Olga Rogankova, Alexandr Denisov, Ekaterina Tchurakova, Lui Sihan, Natalya Mikhailova, Mikhail Maksimov, Tatyana Vergezova, Natalya Ignatyeva. The main goal of the projects made for the Sheremetev Palace was to create an environment for blind and visually impaired visitors that would encourage a feeling of “Independence and Equality through Music”. All the proposed ideas were divided into four stages (from the “essentials” to “plans for the future”). 1. Creating a friendly environment for blind and visually impaired visitors. Installing guiding signs, handrails, ramps, contrast paint for doorways, developing a system of tactile signs, tactile map, print materials in braille and tactile pictograms for the blind, and making all this navigation attractive for visitors with normal vision. A tactile map at the Museum entrance could provide visitors with disabilities with spatial references. 2. Enhancing museum display with “interactive” elements, since blind and visually impaired visitors cannot see objects placed in showcases. Creating “audio-tactile stands” – doubles for the closed showcases – with tactile pictograms of musical instruments that enable visitors to know their scaled models by touch and listen to their sounds. 3. Creating a new function – “Music Salon”: a separate music area, a unique round-shaped sofa with 4-5 built-in earphone sets that enables a visitor to plunge into music completely. All the proposals enable to adapt the environment in the Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, and make it accessible for blind and visually impaired visitors. The main objective is to create a space that gives one a feeling of “independence through music”.
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Projects In Tune with Man
Pictograms with Braille writing system
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Projects for the Karelian State Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk) Projects’ team: Alina Rybalova, Anna Skryabina, Anastasiya Eremina, Marina Tsai, Olga Bazarova, Maria Lobusova, Tatyana Aleksandrova, Leonid Deryugin. Karelian State Philharmonic serves as a multi-purpose cultural center of Petrozavodsk. Apart from being home for numerous concerts the Philharmonic organizes art exhibitions, various festive events for children and adults. The building of the Philharmonic also houses theater workshops. All the development proposals are aimed at turning the Philharmonic into a “truly public space” that is adapted to suit the needs of various groups of population and provides access to information. Key suggestions to adapt the building of the Karelian Philharmonic to the needs of various groups include, first and foremost, development of a navigation system for blind and visually impaired visitors, implementation of equipment that would ensure physical accessibility for groups with limited mobility. To help blind and visually impaired visitors find their way around the team has developed routs that will be marked with tactile strips on the floor and accessible signs and signals (warning or attracting attention). The visitors will get a general idea of the building plan, guiding route and the spots where larger objects and specific areas can be found, studying a tactile map at the entrance To make the Philharmonic physically accessible the designers recommended to equip the main entrance with a ramp and the main staircase – with a chairlift. Easy open doors, bicycle parking stands, wheelchairs and service dogs will make the Karelian Philharmonic more accessible and attract new groups of visitors.
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Projects Invisible for the Seeing, Visible for the Blind
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Tactile map
Tactile toys Adapting Space in the Central City Alvar Aalto Library (Vyborg) for Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors Projects’ team: Elena Byzova, Mikhail Deyev, Alyona Zherdeleva, Julia Kolesova, Polina Krakulina, Mikhail Martyanov, Gleb Nikandrov, Anna Odintsova, Inna Pasevich, Anastasiya Sukhenko The building of the Library is of historic value and is currently being renovated in accordance with the architect’s original conception. The main problem facing the workshop participants was to apply up-to-date solutions to adapt the space to the needs of blind and visually impaired visitors without violating its aesthetic unity. Major project solutions deal with spatial orientation helping visitors to find their way around complex and multilevel space of the Library. The designers suggest that all solutions that enhance accessibility for visually impaired should be, when possible, hidden from the view. For instance, the tactile strip system with textured surface on the floor could be made of black rubber resonating with Aalto’s black-and-white architecture, or be the same color as the floor coating and be fixed on the floor surface without being imbedded into the coating. Audio navigation system navigates a visitor in the environment through an earphone. Combined with a position finding system this audio system remains completely invisible for a regular visitor. The system locates a visitor who is carrying a corresponding map with a built-in chip at a certain point in the building, and the visitor automatically receives the information they need through earphones. Tactile maps with complete Library layouts are placed at the entrance in two forms: as a model and as a booklet; each room in the Library has detailed maps with furniture and shelves arrangement Kids’ reading room provides play space: the workshop participants developed special tactile toys that enhance perception of the surrounding reality and library environment for visually impaired or blind children. Braille signs and tactile embossed pictograms should be placed on transparent plates. .
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Museum Design Education Course
Lecture at the A. S. Popov Central Museum of Communication
Lecture at the State museum of the Political History of Russia
The course on museum design took place in September-December, 2012, and was attended by 38 students (4th year bachelor degree students and 1st year master degree students) from the Arts Department of the St. Petersburg State University (Graphic Design and Environmental Design programs). 13 classes (lectures and tutorials, as well as practice) were held both in the PRO ARTE premises and in St. Petersburg museums to show the students what designer’s job in a museum is, what skills and experience are essential for a museum designer and what their objectives and goals could be. The topics for the classes included Interpreting Museum’s Public Space; Adapting a Historical Building to Museum’s New Function; Temporary Exhibitions at Museums; Classical Museum Exhibition etc. As part of their practical study the students were offered a task of designing labels and explications for the children’s educational exhibition «Miracle Tree» at the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House as well as designing a poster and a logo for the photography exhibition titled «1917: A Photo Report from the Petrograd Streets» at The State Museum of the Political History of Russia. As part of their practical study three groups of students majoring in Graphic Design were offered a task of designing temporary museum exhibitions in the course «Visual Identity» for the following exhibitions: - «Reading List / Christmas at the Fountain House» at the Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House - «Revolution of 1917» at The State Museum of the Political History of Russia - «Our Happy Childhood» at The Kirov Apartment Museum All 38 students were admitted to pass the test, and 37 passed it successfully
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Newsletter №7 St. Petersburg Architectural Biennale 2013 April 2 - 8, 2013
St. Petersburg Architectual Biennale 2013
December 2012 to March 2013 young architects – participants of the Green Architecture master class conducted by its curator, Valery Nefyodov, Doctor of Architecture, Professor at the Department of Architecture (St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering) – continued to develop their projects providing architectural solutions for four types of buildings: residential house, recreation center, bank and hotel. April 2 to April 8, 2013 presentations of three projects: residential house, recreation center and a bank were on display at the St. Petersburg Architectural Biennale 2013. The exhibition was run for the fourth time presenting best architectural designs and projects completed over the past two years. The Biennale takes place in the Marble Hall of the Russian Museum of Ethnography and has become one of the city’s most visited architectural events. Exhibition stand with the projects developed by young architects demonstrated how energy- and resource-saving technology can be applied in the context of St. Petersburg urban design. The display became a focus of the visitors’ attention receiving a lot of favorable comments as a “relevant and promising trend in the development of contemporary Russian architecture”. More than 10 000 people visited the Exhibition.
Works from the Green Architecture master class presented at the St. Petersburg Architectural Biennale 2013
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On April 4, 2013 educational program of the St. Petersburg Architectural Biennale 2013 (Marble Hall of the Russian Museum of Ethnography) featured a lecture by Uffe Leth Laursen and Karsten Gori – founders of the Leth&Gori architecture office (Copenhagen, Denmark). Leth&Gori is a young architecture office specializing in innovative architecture and urban design. At their lecture the architects described what it meant to be a “young bureau” in the market, shared their professional experience of participating in various competitions and showed some of their most successful projects and completed buildings including Academy of Fine Arts in Tallinn (Estonia), Music Gymnasium in Salzburg (Austria), Jøssingfjord Museum (Norway), kindergartens in Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Balling (Denmark). The lecture was attended by 150 visitors.
April 5, 2013. Students - participants of the Green Architecture master class and architects Uffe Leth Laursen and Karsten Gori (Leth&Gori, Denmark) met in the lecture hall of the PRO ARTE Foundation. Young St. Petersburg architects showed the Danish experts their concepts and projects of residential house, recreation center, bank and an eco-hotel. Uffe Leth Laursen and Karsten Gori provided expert assessment for each of the projects pointing out strengths and weaknesses of each architectural solution. The event was moderated by Valery Nefyodov, Doctor of Architecture, Professor at the Department of Architecture (St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering).
Workshop with Uffe Leth Laursen and Karsten Gori
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Newsletter №8 Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces Exhibition May 23 – June 1, 2013 Engineer’s House, Peter and Paul Fortress May 23 - June 1, 2013 Engineer’s House of the Peter and Paul Fortress housed Listening to Architecture – Composing Spaces exhibition. The exhibition presented design projects and architectural concepts united by a search for a dialogue between man and environment, between man and society. The projects dealt with the crucial issues of modernity: of making environment open and accessible, of creating environmentally friendly and energy-saving green architecture. Exhibition visitors had a chance to see the projects developed during Design for All workshop organized by the PRO ARTE Foundation and conducted by Marjo Mäenpää, Professor of Media Management in Aalto University (Helsinki) and Irina Golovenok, architect and designer based in St. Petersburg.The participants of the workshop developed projects scaled to needs of blind and visually impaired visitors for three cultural venues including: • Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music (St. Petersburg) • The Karelian State Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk) • The Central City Alvar Aalto Library (Vyborg) The participants created new concepts meant to help visually impaired people integrate into society to the full extent and navigate in space. Each team proposed its own solution. Apart from designing tactile maps, lay-outs, rails, ramps and navigation systems the participants offered solutions using audio navigation system, various educational stands and special tactile toys for children. Green (environment-friendly) architecture is the second major topic of the exhibition featuring projects developed the master-class on green architecture that took place in the PRO ARTE Foundation and was conducted by two Danish experts: Victoria Diemer Bennetzen and Hiroshi Kato (KATOxVictoria architectural studio) and Valery Nefyodov, Doctor of Architecture, Professor of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Construction. The exhibition displays architectural solutions for four types of buildings: a living house, a leisure center, a bank and a hotel, reflecting modern vision of green architecture and the way one can apply energy and resources saving technology in St. Petersburg context. The exhibition also features a kitchen for wheelchair users: K+K project (where the first K stands for “kitchen” and the other for “koleso” that means “wheel” in Russian). The project was designed by Anzhelika Vagner and Sergei Belyanchikov. When developing the project the two designers did their best to make the kitchen easy to maintain and clean, comfortable, modern in design choosing adequate color and light layouts. It was also important to keep its cost low to make it affordable to the end-user: the designers developed three options for their mini-kitchen – consumer-grade, economical and an improved one. This project marks a very important step in helping people with special needs integrate into society to the full extent, and making their life comfortable.
Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces exhibition
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Projects’ Implementation: Participants of the Listening to Architecture – Composing Spaces project continue to develop their design projects created during master-class on adapting spaces for blind and visually impaired visitors at three cultural venues: • Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music (St. Petersburg) • The Karelian State Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk) • The Central City Alvar Aalto Library (Vyborg) In February, 2013 all three projects were presented at the venues they had been made for. The projects received positive feedback and the best ideas were selected for future improvement and implementation. Architect and designer Irina Golovenok conducted several meetings with the project participants (March 27, 2013, April 9, 16, 23, 2013, June 7, 2013) where they worked out a roadmap for further development of their projects and stages of implementation. All projects are to be implemented by the end of 2013.
Accessible Culture, round-table discussion May 23, 2013 PRO ARTE Foundation, lecture hall Participants of the round table discussed accessibility of the cultural venues for blind and visually impaired visitors: equal access to the cultural heritage means that each person should be able to obtain information and participate in cultural events. Designers, museum workers, experts who study challenges for the blind and visually impaired examined accessibility of cultural venues for all categories of visitors. Participants of the round-table discussion: Moderator: Elena Kolovskaya, PRO ARTE Foundation, Director; Listening to Architecture – Composing Spaces, Project Leader Yulia Kolesova, psychologist, environment designer, senior lecturer, Department of Design, Faculty of Arts, St. Petersburg State University Olga Ustinova, St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind, Director Natalya Feofanova, Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Deputy Director for Development
“Accessible Culture” round-table discussion
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Lecture by Marika Leinonen (Finland) May 28, 2013 May 28, 2013: lecture hall of the PRO ARTE Foundation featured a lecture by the Finnish designer and curator Marika Leinonen. Marika Leinonen told about her curatorial project for blind and visually impaired children – an exhibition called Tuntumaa (Senses). A group of artists created objects specially designed for human senses other that vision: smell, taste, tactile perception and hearing. The exhibition enjoyed great success in Finland and was shown in various cities including IIRIS Center for the Visually Impaired in Helsinki.
Lecture by Marika Leinonen
Photos: Opening of the exhibition in our photo-album: www.vk.com/album-379354_175784226 Press clippings: • ART1 - Internet portal about art, architecture, design and photography, 28.05.2013 www.art1.ru/architecture/arxitektura-vslepuyu/ • «… The display boards hanging across the space feature projects that can be referred to visual arts but were not created for eyes. Exhibition presenting results of the project “Listening to Architecture – Composing Spaces” is organized by the Pro Arte Foundation and dedicated to creating comfortable environment for the blind and visually impaired …» • NTV tv-channel Segodnya Sankt-Peterburg (St. Petersburg Today) program, 23.052013 http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/602296/ (from 01.18 onwards) «These days Pater and Paul Fortress has to deal with an influx of those who favor Dutch design and “green architecture”. There are as many as three exhibitions opened for them. The first one presents various projects by Dutch experts of several generations and two other exhibitions feature environmentally efficient solutions …»
Newsletter №9 Concert Listening to Architecture In August 2013 three composers from Russia, Denmark and Finland took trips to St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and Helsinki to get to know architecture of the three capitals and to compose music afterwards. The concert featuring their newly written works is to take place December 18, 2013 in the Hermitage Theater.
New Holland Island
Tårnby
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Maija Hynninen, composer form Finland chose one the St. Petersburg most famous architectural sites: The layers of history are present in New Holland – a triangle of red brick buildings surrounded by the channels of St. Petersburg. Today in ruins, waiting for the great renovations to turn it into a cultural centre. I’ve tried to capture a glimpse of the history of New Holland in the soundscape of my work. The atmosphere of the present – stillness of the completely covered windows keeping the spaces inside hidden – governs the general character of my work. A young St. Petersburg composer, Dmitry Timofeyev spent several days in Denmark and was fascinated by life in Tårnby – one of Copenhagen suburbs: I really liked Tårnby for its truly healthy atmosphere. A wonderful park, neat houses, a lot of children playing sports and games with their parents and grandparents, clear sky. I drew a sketch of this “ideal place to live” on paper and then transferred it to the “musical dimension”: used a special program to study its spectrum, processed the result and wrote it down as a graphical score for a string quintet.
Alvar Aalto Library
Peter and Paul Fortress
In the work created by Simon Løffler from Denmark spatial effects are created by the special way the musicians are placed on stage. Two groups of instruments try to interact through a “wall” “built” in the bass drum part. The piece is not based on any particular architectural prototype, however, its central idea of division came to the author when he visited sound-proof cells of the prison in the Peter-and-Paul Fortress (St. Petersburg). Boris Filanovsky (St. Petersburg/Berlin) dedicated his piece to the works of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto: The work communicates certain aspects of Aalto’s architecture – the way it remains horizontal, functional and economically sound. When looking at Aalto’s buildings, your eye captures the general outline pretty fast, but it can soak in the volumes and textures for quite a while. The same principle can be applied to this piece: harmonically it is not complex at all, being designed of the simplest contrast forms; inside, however, you witness an intricate interplay of vibrations and speeds.
Newsletter №10 Project Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces: Concluding Conference On December 18, 2013 the Council Hall of the Sate Hermitage housed the Concluding Conference for the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces Project – the Project was dedicated to architecture, contemporary music and design. Vladimir Matveev, Deputy Director for Eхhibitions and Development of the State Hermitage and a member of the Project Advisory Council made a welcome address to the conference. The conference program featured presentations made by the guests from Denmark and Finland. Christian Have, owner and Creative Director of Have Communications, one of the leading communication agencies in Europe, shared his ideas about
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the role of art in crisis periods and corporate cultural responsibility. Antti Raike, Doctor of Arts, Senior Advisor in accessibility in the Aalto University presented his view on the Design for All concept. Composer and author of musical projects for children with disabilities Riikka Talvitie described her experiences and told about the things contemporary composers can do working with various audiences. In the final part of the conference Elena Kolovskaya, Director of the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts, Rikke Helms, Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg, and Eija Salmi, Secretary General, CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media presented the outcomes of the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces Project.
Listening to Architecture concert
After the conference the audience was treated to a contemporary music concert in the Hermitage Theater. The concert featured newly composed works devoted to architectural objects, approaches and ideas. The pieces were written after young composers from Russia, Denmark and Finland took educational trips to St. Petersburg and Copenhagen). A young St. Petersburg composer, Dmitry Timofeev presented a piece inspired by Tårnby suburb of Copenhagen. The D by Simon Løffler from Denmark was not based on any particular architectural prototype, however, its central idea of division came to the author when he visited the Peter-and-Paul Fortress. Boris Filanovsky’s Aalto Functions, written in 2007, is an homage to the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The concert ended with the New Holland – a piece by Maija Hynninen (Finland). 40
Museum Design Educational Course
Lecture at the State Hermtage museum
Lecture at the State museum of history of St Petersburg
14 classes (lectures and tutorials, as well as practice) were held both in the PRO ARTE premises and in St. Petersburg museums to show the students what designer’s job in a museum is, what skills and experience are essential for a museum designer and what their objectives and goals could be. The topics for the classes included Interpreting Museum’s Public Space; Adapting a Historical Building to Museum’s New Function; Infographics in a Museum; Classical Museum Exhibition etc. As part of their practical study the students majoring in Graphic Design were offered a task of designing labels and explications for the exhibition Amidst the Din of the Ball in the State Museum of the History of Saint-Petersburg, as well as designing a poster, an invitation and a logo for the exhibition titled The Ancient Greeks Are with Us Forever at the Mikhail Anikushin’s Studio (Branch of the State Museum of the City Sculpture). Students from the Environmental Design program were to develop design project for the exhibition. All 28 students were admitted to pass the test, and 27 passed it successfully. 41
Newsletter № 11 Musical CD Listening to Architecture Musical CD Listening to Architecture was released in February, 2014. The CD features three new pieces by young composers from Denmark, Finland and Russia commissioned by the PRO ARTE Foundation within the framework of the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces Project, as well as Aalto Functions created by composer Boris Filanovsky in 2007. The works are dedicated to architectural topics: Tårnby by Dmitry Timofeyev (Russia) is a musical image of the Tårnby suburb of Copenhagen; D by Simon Løffler (Denmark) was inspired by the visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg; Aalto Functions, according to its author, «translates certain specific features of Aalto’s architecture – “the way it remains horizontal, functional, economically sound”»; Maija Hynninen’s New Holland depicts a sound landscape of the famous St. Petersburg island.
The pieces commissioned within the project were recorded at the Listening to Architecture concert, December 18, 2013 in the Hermitage Theater. All works were performed by the contemporary music group eNsemble of the PRO ARTE Foundation, conductor – Fyodor Lednev. The CD is for non-commercial distribution only.
Developing projects to adapt cultural venues making them accessible for the blind and visually impaired visitors. The projects were designed within the framework of Design for All master class Design projects developed by young St. Petersburg designers to provide access to cultural venues (a museum, a concert-hall and a library) for the blind and visually impaired visitors constituted an important part of the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces project. December 3-7, 2012: the PRO ARTE Foundation lecture hall featured Design for All master class dedicated to projects that adapt cultural venues for the needs of the blind and visually impaired visitors. The workshop was conducted by Marjo Mäenpää, Professor of Professor of Media Management in the Aalto University School of Arts Design and Architecture and Irina Golovyonok, architect and designer from St. Petersburg. During the master class the students developed projects for three cultural venues in St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Petrozavodsk: • Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Branch of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music • The Karelian State Philharmonic (Petrozavodsk) • The Central City Alvar Aalto Library (Vyborg) In November, 2012 we’ve organized a number of preliminary meetings and lectures to introduce the participants of the master class to the complex topic helping them realize how you organize space for the blind and visually impaired. All designers started to work on their projects after making research trips to the venues they were designing their projects for. As a result the participants presented project-concepts they had to elaborate later together with the personnel from the venues. In February, 2013 all three projects were presented at the venues they had been designed for. The projects got positive feedback, and the best ideas were selected to be implemented at the venues after some improvement. Eight follow-up meeting with young designers were supervised by Irina Golovyonok (March 27; April 9, 16, 23; June 7; September 4, 17; November 16, 2013). Between October, 2013 and January 2014 the projects were assembled and installed at all the three venues in St. Petersburg, Vyborg and Petrozavodsk (trips made October 10, 2013 and January 13-14, 2014). 42
Project 1. Independence through Music Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music, Branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music Project team: Olga Rogankova, Ekaterina Tchurakova, Maria Akselrod
Sheremetev palace – Museum of Music is located in a historical building; the museum collection contains over three thousand musical instruments – it is one of the world’s five top collections and the best one in Russia. White Hall of the Palace features regular concerts. The project team decided to focus on the entrance area and to adapt it, as well as the passage to the concert hall, since these two areas are the ones most frequently accessed by the blind and visually impaired visitors of the Sheremetev Palace. The designers placed warning yellow signs (yellow being the last spectral color that visually impaired people can actually see). Yellow strips also mark the entrance area steps. They also developed tactile guiding signs in the ground floor entrance area leading the visitors to the strategically important points: ticket-office, cloakroom, lavatories and the staircase which leads to the concert hall. The designers also created a navigation system with tactile pictograms and text printed in braille placed at a comfortable height to be studied by hand. A special tactile map with spatial references was designed to help people with disabilities find their way around. Alongside with technical information about various zones the map also displays a tactile relief with the Sheremetev Palace facade and includes an audiosystem providing information about the Palace, its history and architecture. Natalya Pheophanova, Deputy Director, R&D Department, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music – Museum of Music in Sheremetev Palace: “For the Museum of Theater and Music Independence through Music project is the first experience of this kind. We are honored that the PRO ARTE Charitable Foundation in 2011 favored Sheremetev Palace among other contestants to create accessible environment for visitors with disabilities. Creating accessible spaces is very important and has a big future. While working on the project we did face certain difficulties, but managed to find solutions working together with the PRO ARTE Foundation. Today Sheremetev Palace can offer more special devices for blind and visually impaired than any other cultural venue in St. Petersburg. We sincerely hope that our new visitors will appreciate the result. We are looking forward towards new and challenging joint projects with PRO ARTE!” Maria Akselrod, designer, works at the Publishing Department of the St. Petersburg Library for the Blind, participant of the project for the Sheremetev Palace – Museum of Music “Being part of the project gave me a chance to gain unique experience in solving real problems and not some abstract tasks we normally get to solve in our universities. This time it was a real problem with a real result that we were responsible for. The project was multi-faceted: you had to consider many aspects and conditions simultaneously, think of possible solutions for the tasks you’ve been challenged with, - and I personally found it very important. Apart from designing accessible environment, we also had to interact with organizations, various experts and find possible ways of implementing the project. To conceive and draw your idea is one thing, but to take into account all technical aspects of its implementation is very different. The task being multi-faceted and target-oriented, as well as interaction within the team made participation in the project extremely meaningful, educational and interesting 43
Project 2. In Tune with Man Karelian State Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk Project team: Anna Skryabina, Anastasiya Eremina, Olga Bazarova, Maria Lobusova, Tatyana Aleksandrova, Leonid Deryugin.
Karelian State Philharmonic serves as a multi-purpose cultural center of Petrozavodsk. Apart from being home for numerous concerts the Philharmonic organizes art exhibitions, various festive events for children and adults. The project was aimed at turning the Philharmonic into a “truly public space” that is adapted to suit the needs of various groups of population and provides access to information. To help blind and visually impaired visitors find their way around the team has developed routs marked with tactile strips on the floor and accessible signs and signals. The visitors can get a general idea of the building plan, guiding route and the spots with larger objects and specific areas while studying tactile maps placed in the entrance lobbies (ground floor, 1st floor). The designers developed a navigation system with accessible warning or informative signs – warning yellow circles on the glass doors, mnemonic diagrams for WC facilities with their plans, as well as information tables with 3D-text and pictograms. The steps of the main staircase leading to the concert halls were equipped with contrasting plates making the stairs comfortable and safe. The designers also developed a stand with 3D models of the main musical instruments and classical orchestral seating. At the request of the Philharmonic staff and the Regional Branch of the Russian National Blind Association the additional staircase leading to the 1st floor was equipped with a folding ramp to provide access to the Philharmonic Hall for people with physical disabilities. Olga Bazarova, architect, Architectural Bureau of the City Infrastructure Institute, participant of the Design for All project for the Karelian State Philharmonic: “Seeing” the world of blind and visually impaired people was extremely interesting and educational for me. I find it essential that architects and designers should get to know the needs of certain social groups to create comfortable environments for each and every person and not for an abstract crowd. The project wasn’t easy: we tried not only to adapt spaces in the Philharmonic to the needs of the blind and visually impaired, but to create an attractive environment for other visitors. I am glad we managed to put most of our ideas into practice” Irina Gulyayeva, visually impaired visitor to the Karelian Philharmonic: “This 3d-model will definitely be popular among visually impaired children. It might help them not only to tell wind instruments from the string ones, but also to tell a violin from a viola or a bass; a tube from a trumpet. It is very interesting and educational. It would be great to let children explore real instruments and later compare those with the miniature ones”.
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Project 3. Invisible for the Seeing, Visible for the Blind Central City Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg Project team: Elena Byzova, Mikhail Deyev, Alyona Zherdeleva, Polina Krakulina, Mikhail Martyanov, Gleb Nikandrov, Anna Odintsova, Inna Pasevich, Anastasiya Sukhenkо
Alvar Aalto Library is Vyborg’s central library build in 1933-35 to the design of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. The building itself is considered to be a landmark in the history of contemporary architecture and marks the transition of Aalto’s style from neoclassicism with a national touch to simplified forms of regional modernism. In 2013 the Library was reopened after a large-scale renovation which had restored the building to its original look in accordance with the architect’s conception. The Library does not function as a special venue for blind and visually impaired visitors but has books printed in braille and special devices for visually impaired readers. The designers faced a challenge: to apply up-to-date solutions to adapt the space to the needs of blind and visually impaired visitors without violating its aesthetic unity. They decided to leave the architectural space intact reducing their intrusion to specific elements that had to do with the Library’s architecture. The project team developed a tactile map that gives an idea of a complex multilevel space of the Library. The map is made of birch veneered plywood. Text type is large and clear and is written both in regular alphabet and in Braille. Kids’ reading room provides play space: project participants developed special tactile toys that enhance perception of the surrounding reality and library environment for visually impaired or blind children. Braille signs are placed inside the Library. A special braille edition of a book about Alvar Aalto Library was published to become part of the library stock. Yelena Rogozina, director, Central City Alvar Aalto Library: “I am very glad that Alvar Aalto Library took part in the Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces project. The project enabled us to make our library accessible to the widest possible audience. The equipment we have procured within the framework of the project adapts library space taking into account the needs of the blind and visually impaired visitors. Tactile map of the library building, as well as tactile information sign plates help visitors to find their way around the library. Tactile wooden and textile toys made in the form of the library building are very popular among younger visitors. A booklet about the Aalto Library printed both in braille and in larger font has an appealing and innovative design and can be very useful for the blind and visually impaired visitors”. Polina Karakulina, student of design, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, participant of the project for the Central Alvar Aalto Library: “Designers seldom get to work on projects for people with disabilities, particularly in Russia. It was challenging to be part of such project. I found it extremely rewarding to develop things for children since educational and entertaining aspects of environment are extremely important for them. All stages were different, and each of us could gain experience working in a team, and after that go all the way from a drawing and a model to the final stage when you could see your design implemented; we also learned how to communicate with suppliers and workshops and how to maintain contacts between clients and suppliers. Participation in the project made us all aware of how people with disabilities live and what problems they have to face. It encouraged us to channel our creative potential into this area. And I think it is vitally important..” 45
Projects Presentations January-March, 2014
January 18, 2014: Presentation of the In Tune with Man Project for the Karelian State Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk.
The presentation was attended by members of the local branch of the Russian National Blind Association and staff of the Karelian Republican Library for Blind and Visually Impaired – both wanted to try the new facilities. The visitors followed tactile lines to get to the ticket office on the ground floor, went up the stairs, reached the entrance to the concert hall and to the WC facilities on the same floor, they also tried to find their way around using tactile patterns. The visitors were particularly happy about miniature replicas of musical instruments made using 3D printing. Press: • Agentstvo social’noi informacii (Social Information Agency), Jan. 15,2014 http://www.asi.org.ru/news/karel-skaya-gosudarstvennaya-filarmoniya-stala-dostupnee-dlya-slepy-h-i-slabovidyashhih/ Karelian State Philharmonic Has Become More Accessible for Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors “Karelian State Philharmonic has acquired special equipment for blind and visually impaired visitors, as well as for the visitors who arrive in wheelchairs. The ground floor and the 1st floor feature tactile maps, memory maps, tactile lines, folding ramps available at the emergency stairs and a model of an orchestra to explain how musical instruments look like and work. Using these tools will enable a visually impaired visitor to get a proper picture of the venue by feel and to find their way e.g. to the ticket office – the latter also has signs in Braille” February 19, 2014: Presentation of the Independence through Music Project for Sheremetev Palace - Museum of Music, Branch of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music.
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the history of the Sheremetev Palace. The presentation was attended by over 200 guests including representatives of the St Petersburg Committee for Culture. The presentation was followed by a concert ‘Othello, Moor of Venice’ featuring arias from Rossini and Verdi operas. The handbills were printed in braille Press: • Gorod + web portal, Feb. 20, 2014 http://www.gorod-plus.tv/video/321.html Independence through Music “February 19: Independence through Music – joint project of the Museum of Music and PRO ARTE Foundation was presented in the Sheremetev Palace. From now on the entrance area of the palace has become accessible for the blind and visually impaired visitors. It took two years to develop the project: thanks to the efforts of the Museum staff, National Blind Association and PRO ARTE charitable foundation, as well as the City Library for Blind and Visually Impaired, the Museum can now be visited by many people” • 100 TV television channel, Feb. 19, 2014 http://www.tv100.ru/news/v-sheremetevskom-dvorce-prezentovali-novuyu-programmu-dlya-lyudej-s-ogranichennymi-vozmozhnostyami-88109/ A new program for visitors with disabilities was presented in the Sheremetev Palace “Curators of the Independence through Music emphasize the first word in the title of their project. Here, in the Museum of Music people who need assistance when moving around will find themselves independent and, eventually, free” March 11, 2014: Presentation of the Invisible for the Seeing, Visible for the Blind Project in the Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg
Invited to the presentation were members of the Vyborg Branch of the National Blind Association and general public. Welcoming addresses by: Yelena Rogozina, Director of the Central City Alvar Aalto Library; Olga Ustinova, Director of the St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind; Natalya Khvoenkova, project curator (PRO ARTE Foundation). For the final part of the presentation members of the local Vyborg Literary Club Silver Thread recited their poems written as verbal transcripts of paintings by well-known artists helping blind and visually impaired visitors to get to know famous art-works. Press: • Vyborgskiye Vedomosti, March 14, 2014 http://vyborg-press.ru/pblogs/social_naya_sfera/2014/03/14/vidimoe_dlya_ nezryachih Visible for the Blind Aalto Library Presents Equipment for the Blind and Visually Impaired “Back in 2012 Aalto Library joined the international project “Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces” launched by the St. Petersburg charitable organization PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts. The Library enjoys a long-standing partnership with this organization. The project is aimed to apply European experience in various fields, including design of public spaces for people with disabilities. The project has been supported by the EU bodies”
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Special thanks Anastasia Anisimova – Visual Impairment Specialist, St Petersburg State Library for Blind and Visually Impaired Vasily Bashkirov – Deputy Director for Development, Karelian State Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk Kai-Uwe Bergmann – Business Development Director, Partner at BIG architectural studio, USA Andrey Bogatyrev – Designer, Senior Lecturer of the Software Design Department, Shtiglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design Helle Vinter – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum, Denmark Alexander Vorobyev – Senior Administrator, Theatre and Educational Department, The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg Olga Gavrilova – Senior Administrator, Theatre and Educational Department, The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg Ivan Gerts – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity Tatyana Govorushina – Director of the Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity Irina Golovenok – Architect, Designer, St. Petersburg Olga Grankvist – Acting Head of the Communication Policy Department, Head of the International Activities Department, St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity Anastasia Zhikh – Consultant of the In Tune with Man project, Petrozavodsk Anna Katkhanova – Head of the Architectural Competitions Department, City Planning and Architecture Committee of the St Petersburg City Government Elena Kirillova – Head of the Development Division, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music Olesya Kolesnikova – Head of the Information and Marketing Department, Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg Alexey Kononov – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity, St. Petersburg Galina Korneva – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity, St. Petersburg Margarita Kulikova – Head of the Innovation and Methodical Supply Division, Karelian Republican Library for the Blind, Petrozavodsk Nina Lebedeva – Project Coordinator, Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg Nina Levshakova – Chairman of the Karelian Branch of the All-Russian Association of the Blind, Petrozavodsk Talvikki Lehtomäki – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth, Finland Jannik Broz Lorentzen – Director of the Art School of the Horsens Art Museum, Denmark Elizaveta Matrosova – Consultant of the In Tune with Man, Independence through Music, Invisible for the Seeing, Visible for the Blind projects, St. Petersburg Andreas Trier Mørch – Architect, Denmark Pihla Meskanen – Director of the Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth, Finland Natalia Metelitsa – Director of the St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music Tapani Mustonen – Member of the Board and Design Team of the Finnish Restoration Committee of the Vyborg Library Valery Nefedov – Architect, Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Urban Planning Department, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Sergey Oreshkin – Architect, Head of the Architectural Studio “A.Len”, St Petersburg Natalia Orlova – Head of Theatre and Educational Department, The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg Minna-Mari Paija – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth, Finland Elena Perova – Deputy Director for Cultural Programs Development, Finish Institute in St. Petersburg Ksenia Pozdnyakova – PhD, Associate Professor of the Design Chair, Art Department, St Petersburg State University Pia Rost Rasmussen – Head of DAC & Learning, Danish Architecture Center, Denmark Jack Renteria – Head of International Markets Department, 3XN architectural studio, Denmark Elena Rogozina – Director of the Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg 48
Lise Sattrup – Education and Development, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark Ivan Uralov – Vice-Chairman of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Arts of the St Petersburg State University, Honoured Artist of Russia Irina Ustinova – Director of the Karelian State Philharmonic, Petrozavodsk Olga Ustinova – Director of the St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind, St. Petersburg Natalia Feklicheva – Director of the Library for the Blind of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk Natalya Feofanova – Deputy Director for Development, Sheremetev Palace (St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music) Maria Tsekertova – Curator of International Relations of the Saint Petersburg Design Week Ruslan Chernobaev – President of the Saint Petersburg Design Week Mari Pauliina Jaakonaho – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth, Finland Anna Yakushevskaya – Special Projects Manager, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
Associated Partners of the Project The State Hermitage Museum The Union of Architectural Studios of St Petersburg Art Department of the St Petersburg State University Institute of Finland in St Petersburg Central City Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg Center for the Development of Creative Industries and Tourism, Petrozavodsk
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Speakers, Leaders of Workshops, Participants of the Round-table and Conference: Jan Gehl (Denmark) – Architect, Urban Design Consultant, Founding Partner of Gehl Architects, Professor (Ret.) of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. Marjo Mäenpää (Finland) – Multimedia Producer, Professor of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture in the Aalto University. Kim Nielsen (Denmark) – Architect MAA/RIBA, Founder and Principal of 3XN architectural studio; Antti Ahlava (Finland) – Architect, Partner at HELSINKIZURICH and Head of the Department of Architecture at Aalto University; Alexander Reichstein (Finland) – Artist, designer; Hiroshi Kato (Denmark) – Co-founder of KATOxVictoria architectural studio; Victoria Diemer Bennetzen (Denmark) – Co-founder of KATOxVictoria architectural studio; Valery Nefedov – Architect, Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Urban Planning Department at St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Uffe Leth (Denmark) – Co-founder of LETH&GORI architectural studio; Karsten Gori (Denmark) – Co-founder of LETH&GORI architectural studio; Marika Leinonen-Vainio (Finland) – Designer and Curator, Aalto University School of Art and Design; Irina Golovenok – Architect, designer, St Petersburg; Yulia Kolesova – Psychologist, Environment Designer, Senior Lecturer, Department of Design, Faculty of Arts, St. Petersburg State University; Olga Ustinova – Director of the St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind; Natalya Feofanova – Deputy Director for Development, Sheremetev Palace (St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music); Christian Have (Denmark) – Owner and Creative Director of Have Communications Agency; Antti Raike (Finland) – Doctor of Arts, Senior Advisor in Accessibility in the Aalto University; Riikka Talvitie (Finland) – Composer, author of musical projects for children with disabilities; Elena Kolovskaya – Director, the St. Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts; Rikke Helms – Director, Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg; Eija Salmi (Finland) – Director of International Affairs Department in the Aalto University; Secretary General, CUMULUS International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.
Participants of the Study Tour Educating Children in Architecture and Design to Helsinki, Copenhagen and Horsens: Rikke Helms – Director of the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg; Olga Grankvist – Acting Head of the Communication Policy Department, Head of the International Activities Department, St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Galina Korneva – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Ivan Gerts – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Mari Pauliina Jaakonaho – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Jannik Broz Lorentzen – Director, Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark).
Participants of the Study Tour Design for All to Helsinki: Elena Rogozina – Director of the Alvar Aalto Library (Russia); Elena Kirillova – Head of the Development Division, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music (Russia); Alexandra Tolstova – Senior Lecturer, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Design (Russia); Margarita Kulikova – Head of the Innovation and Methodical Supply Division, Karelian Republican Library for the Blind (Russia).
Participants of the Visit Green Architecture to Copenhagen: Galina Archipenko – Head of the Property Department, Committee on Culture of the St. Petersburg Government (Russia); Valery Nefjodov – Architect, Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Urban Planning Department at St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Russia); Dmitry Prokhorov – Architectural Journalist (St Petersburg, Russia); Ksenia Schastlivtseva – Architect, Studio 44 (St Petersburg, Russia). 50
Teachers and Instructors of the International Summer Camp for Children:
Jannik Broz Lorentzen – Director, Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Helle Vinter – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Minna-Mari Paija – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Mari Pauliina Jaakonaho – Arkki School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Galina Korneva – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Ivan Gerts – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Olga Grankvist – Acting Head of the Communication Policy Department, Head of the International Activities Department, St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia);
Participants of the International Summer Camp for Children: Julie Schjødt Kvist – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Asbjørn Hornstrup Jensen – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Frida Jolande Birkbak – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Victor Holst Hansen – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Amalie Frederikke Duborg – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Sofie Krogh Stautz – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Mathilde Tams Jensen – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Louise Lynge Thorup – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Maiken Sjørslev Lyngvig – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Nanna Skøtt Nielsen – Art School of the Horsens Art Museum (Denmark); Patrik Mikael Mikander – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Akseli Johannes Anttonen – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Theo Aatos Ilmari Ora – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Albert Gustav Herman Adlercreutz – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Edvin Bertel Henrik Ingman – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Alex Patrik Sebastian Felixson – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Isaac-Lauri Courtney Robertson – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Karl Eric William Welin – School of Architecture for Children and Youth (Finland); Maxim Vinogradov – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Nikita Vinogradov – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Anna Rodina – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Valeria Makkovejeva – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Egor Tyurin – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); George Varodi – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Anna Ped’ – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Anna Limbakh – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia); Alexandra Volkovich – Children’s Design Centre at the St Petersburg Palace of Youth Creativity (Russia);
The Green Architecture workshop was attended by: Olga Grigoryeva – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Nadezhda Tochinova – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Tatiana Kovalenko – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Maxim Tsybin – Student, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts; Evgeniya Savinkova – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Pyotr Buyanov – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Maria Shutova – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Olga Chernyakova – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Darya Venetskaya – Student, Shtiglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design; Alexandra Tairova – Student, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts; Vyacheslav Kochkin – Student, Nizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Nadezhda Gerasimova – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Alexandr Zinovyev – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Nikolay Pokorsky – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; 51
Darya Aguryanova – Student, Shtiglitz St Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design; Oksana Mizenko – Student, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts; Valeriya Zezyulinskaya – Student, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts; Dmitry Bochkov – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Anna Krat – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Yulia Butina – Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering; Anastasia Tereshenko– Student, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic University of Fine Arts; Egor Bogomolov– Student, St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Design for All workshop was attended by: Tatyana Aleksandrova – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design: master program Graphic Design; Olga Bazarova – Architect, Architecture and Design Studio Institute of City Infrastructure; Elena Byzova – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Tatyana Vergezova - Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Deyev Mikhail – Designer, Soyuz Trade House, Graduate of the St Petersburg Baltic University; Alexandr Denisov – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Leonid Deryugin – Designer, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, laboratory assistant; Anastasiya Eremina – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Alyona Zherdeleva – Designer, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design; Natalya Ignatyeva – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Julia Kolesova – Designer, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, assistant professor; Karakulina Polina – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Maria Lobusova – Graduate student, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Department of Communication Design; Liu Sihan – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Mikhail Maksimov – Designer, graduate of the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Alexander von Stieglitz; Mikhail Martyanov – Student, St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Alexander von Stieglitz, Environmental Design; Natalya Mikhailova – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Gleb Nikandrov – Architect, А5 Architectural Studio; Anna Odintsova – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Inna Pasevich – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Olga Rogankova – Architect, Rosengineering Project; Alina Rybalova – Architect, graduate of the Novosibirsk State Architecture and Art Academy; Anna Skryabina – Graphic designer, sociologist, illustrator, Dozhd TV channel (tvrain.ru); Anastasiya Sukhenko – Student, St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Marina Tsai – Designer, graduate of the St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Chair of Design, program Environmental Design; Ekaterina Tchurakova – infographics designer, Bumaga web-newspaper (paperpaper.ru).
Lecturers and Instructors, Museum Design Education Course: Julia Demidenko – Deputy Director for Research of the State museum of the History of Saint Petersburg; Maria Makagonova – Head of the Exhibition Design Department of the State museum of the History of Saint Petersburg; Aleksey Boyko – Head of Content of Activity Section, The Russian Center of Museum Pedagogy and Children Creativity, the State Russian Museum; Nina Popova – Director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House; Leonid Kopylov – Deputy Director of the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House; Anna Trofimova – Head of the Department of Ancient World of the State Hermitage Museum; Lyudmila Bakayutova – Director of the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communication; Alexander Menus – Designer; Nikita Sazonov – Designer, Artist; Vladimir Bystrov – Designer; Sergei Ivanov – Designer; 52
Alexander Reichstein – Designer, Artist; Lyudmila Titova – Head of the Mikhail Anikushin’s Studio- Branch of the State Museum of City Sculpture, St Petersburg; Valentina Egorova – Designer of the Permanent Exhibition at the Mikhail Anikushin’s Studio - Branch of the State Museum of City Sculpture, St Petersburg.
Students, Museum Design Education Course, 2012: Babenko Olesya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Eliseyeva Yelizaveta –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Lysenko Taisiya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Lamkina Kseniya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Morozova Natalya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Novikova Anastasiya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Smirnova Anna –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Vavilova Yana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Grinitsyna Sofya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Ponomareva Anna –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Van Tsyao Lin –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Syuy Yue –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Kuzmiychuk Tatyana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Rudakova Lyudmila –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Rulev Artem –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Stepanova Ulyana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Nedyalkova Anastasiya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Rubtsova Yekaterina –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Spitsnadel Mariya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Fominova Tatyana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Lyu Sytsi –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Khuan Lyusyuan –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Chzhou Shi –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Yan Yatsze –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Nikitin Ivan –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Pavlyuk Timofey –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Pak Yekaterina –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Kharitonova Tatyana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Lo Chen –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Vergezova Tatyana –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Denisov Aleksandr –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Ignatyeva Natalya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Mikhaylova Natalya –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Lyu Si Khan –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Pasevich Inna –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Karakulina Polina –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department; Gubinskiy Mikhail –St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department;
Students, Museum Design Education Course, 2013: Irina Antonova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Nikita Bystrov – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Olga Gurova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Sofia Zheltukhina – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Natalia Klemazova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Sofia Kolovskaya – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Marina Korolyova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Maria Lavrenko – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Anastasia Leonova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; 53
Olesya Pogodina – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Alexandra Rafael – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Petr Tarasov – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Anna Trepak – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Gu Itszyun – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Chzhou Shi – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Graphic Design Program; Anastasia Viventsova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Anastasia Kovalyova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Darina Lekomtseva – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Yana Menshikova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Daria Oskina – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Viktoria Pavlova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Anna Sukhikh – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Antonina Ermakova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Natalia Shevelyova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Chzhu Tsibyan – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Van Lu Lu – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Anna Aslanyan – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program; Lyudmila Delarova – St. Petersburg State University, Arts Department, Environmental Design Program;
Composers, authors of music for the Listening to Architecture concert: Maija Hynninen (Finland) Dmitry Timofeyev (St. Petersburg) Simon Løffler (Denmark) Boris Filanovsky (St. Petersburg)
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