International Conference on Education through the Built EnvironmentReading the Space.2nd Edition
Live streaming on Zoom
The languages of the conference are Italian and English.
Monday closed
Tuesday to Sunday 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday 24 December 11 am > 4 pm
Monday 25 December closed
Tuesday 31 December 11 am > 4 pm
Wednesday 1 January 11 am > 7 pm
Monday 6 January 11 am > 8 pm
for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
valid for one year from the date of purchase
minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; myMAXXI cardholders; registered journalists with a valid ID card; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
Live streaming on Zoom
The languages of the conference are Italian and English.
18 Dec 2024 04.30 pm
visita guidata gratuita per i docentiThe Large Glass
14 Jan 2025 06.30 pm
lectureIn movimento: danza, coreografia, architetturawith Susanne Franco
15 Jan 2025 06.00 pm
talkAnalisi, distruzione e rinnovamentowith Monia Ben Hamouda
12 Feb 2025 06.00 pm
talkConversazioni sull’aldilà digitalewith Riccardo Benassi
Graduated in Economic Studies at the University of Venice, she has worked in the industrial field dealing with planning and control activities, in cities such as Rome, Milan and Bologna. Inside the team of La Biennale di Venezia Foundation team since 2001, she was Chief Financial Officer of the Planning and Control Department and, since 2009, she has been managing also Audience Promotion and Educational activities.
Married, with two sons, she has many interests, including cinema, literature, walking and one great hobby: music.
La Triennale di Milano
Design and education are my passions and the main areas of my personal training.
I started working at Triennale Milano in 2010 in the newly established internal education department, leading guided tours and workshops and planning activities for children related to the Design Museum. Now I coordinate the development of education activities aimed at all audiences related to the entire cultural offer of Triennale Milano.
My current frontier of research and work also involves Museum Accessibility.
Born in Cologne 1968, he studied Architecture in Berlin, Copenhagen and at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, New York. After graduating in Berlin he worked for 3 years as project architect for Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, Berlin. In 1999 he co-founded raumlaborberlin. Today raumlabor works worldwide on contemporary architecture, urbanism, art and research. From 2001-07 he has been teaching architecture and urban planning at the Art Academy, Stuttgart. In 2010 he was awarded with a one-year research scholarship for the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome. 2014/16 he taught master classes at the Bergen School of Architecture. Since 2017 he is professor for urbanism and architecture at the Bergen School of Architecture. In 2015 he co published the book “building the city together” on experimental architecture and new self-organized public spaces.
Graduated in Architecture at La Sapienza University of Rome, with a project for the extension of the Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna. After the learning experience as tutor in the academic courses of Museum design and Scenography, she works as architect in several Italian and international firms, to finally land in MAXXI Education department with which she collaborates in curating, organizing and conducting several learning programs addressed to different targets. She participates to the second and the third edition of the pilot project Museum among the school desks. On the occasion of the exhibition Extraordinary Visions. L’Italia ci guarda, she curates the special project “Building the community of the 21st century” as declination of the format InsideOut conceived by the street artist J.R.. Recently she has contributed to the “Kids Museum” project as participatory writing workshop aiming at involving 9-year-old students in the caption editing of a selection of masterpieces from the MAXXI permanent collection of art and architecture on the occasion of the exhibition The Place To Be. She co-curates the first international congress dedicated to education through the built environment Leggere lo spazio/Reading the Space which took place at MAXXI at the beginning of 2019.
Fiona is Head of Learning at the Design Museum and Co-Founder of MATT+FIONA. She endeavours to bridge design and participation in her practice, particularly from the perspective of view of young people. In her architectural training, she completed her undergraduate studies at Edinburgh University where her work was nominated for the Bronze Presidents Medal and won The Lighthouse Award.
Her postgraduate studies were at The Cass in London where her final year project was nominated for the Silver Medal and won RIBA London’s Live Community Project Award. She has taught architecture at both Edinburgh University and The Bartlett, and Interior and Spatial Design at Chelsea College of Art, UAL.
Outside academia, Fiona has become experienced in opening up the built environment to the wider community. For three years she ran the education projects at the architecture charity, Open-City, home of the Open House London weekend. Prior to her work at the Design Museum, she established the National Schools Programme for the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Head of Education at MAXXI
Marta Morelli is an art historian and a heritage educator. She obtained the Master of Arts in Learning and Visitor Studies in Museums and Galleries at School of Museum Studies of University of Leicester. She runs the Education Office at MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts (Rome) where she’s been working since 2005. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of Ludantia. I International Biennial on Architecture Education for Children and Youngsters (Pontevedra, Spain). She created Reading the Space. International Conference on Education through Architecture (first edition January 2019, second edition March 2021). Her research focuses on social inclusion, participatory planning and education through the built environment.
Matthew Springett is principal of London based architectural practice, MSA and Co-Founder of MATT+FIONA. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art and The Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, before graduating from The Bartlett School of Architecture in 1998, winning the RIBA Silver Medal and Bannister Fletcher Prize. He worked with Chris Wilkinson Architects and for Sir Nicholas Grimshaw before establishing MSA in 2001.
He is an accredited RIBA Client Adviser specialising in education design. He runs an architectural design studio at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he has taught over the past 14 years.
Matthew’s office offers a creative studio environment in which collaborative working is encouraged. The practice has a long-term R&D strategy based on active ‘making’ which encourages input from all staff. As well as building design, MSA explore the broader realms of architecture through built installation projects, and have recently won and delivered projects in the United States and UK. MSA’s work has been widely exhibited including 2008 solo exhibition ‘BIGSMALL’ in London. Matthew’s work was been recipient of the Royal Academy ‘Best First Time Exhibitor’ in 2002.
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Learning to ‘read’ in order to ‘write’; learning to look at the space that surrounds us in order to find new shared solutions.
On January 2019 MAXXI Education organized the first international conference on education on the built environment to involve architecture students and architects, teachers of any kind and level, heritage educators and professionals in the field of culture and education. That congress aimed at providing an overview of the best international practices in the field of education on architecture in order to understand the architectural landscape around us, raise awareness about the spaces of everyday life and contribute to the active definition of their qualitative and relational traits.
Our habits and our relationship with the architectural space, starting from home space, have been put to the test by the pandemic and MAXXI Education meets the challenge of the ongoing transformations organizing a second edition of Reading the Space.
By enabling a direct interaction with the professionals who created innovative projects for different audiences, the new edition of the conference provides an opportunity to discuss educational approaches, planning methodologies and practical instruments in order to un-learn (and deconstruct) predetermined linguistic codes. A dialogue to create different ‘alphabets of the space’ and tools to read the environment in which we live in, closer to our feeling and to ever changing needs.
TO WHOM
The conference is devoted to architecture students and architects, teachers of any kind and level, heritage educators and professionals in the field of culture and education.
REGISTRATION
Participation at the conference is free of charge but registration is compulsory – until capacity is reached.
To attend the conference please fill in the form online by Tuesday the 2nd of March 2021 at 1.00 p.m..
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Valentina Borsato
Michele Corna
Jan Liesegang
Stefania Napolitano
Fiona MacDonald
Marta Morelli
Matthew Springett