Program

Day 1 – Wednesday | October 25

8:30-9:00	Accreditation
9:00 – 9:30	Welcome and Opening remarks
09:30 – 10:15	Curating Conflict: The Troubles and Beyond  Karen Logan, Ulster Museum and the Ulster Transport Museum, Ireland
10:15 – 10:30	Questions & Answers  Moderated by Denise Pollini, Culture Commons Quest Office – University of Antwerp, Belgium
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 12h30	Morning session – Key theme #1 – Dealing with Conflict Moderated by Luís Tavares Pereira, Architect and Curator, founder and partner at [A] ainda arquitectura studio, Portugal
11:00 – 11:15	Change is a beautiful thing,’ said the butterfly. Exhibition design and the circular economy Ilse Lindenbergh, Hélène Verreyke and Bob Gelderman, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
11:15 – 11:30	Photo Elysée’s move to a purpose-built building: a new context with challenges and implications for conservation and logistics Marina Martin & Nadine Reding, Photo Elysée – Museum for Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland
11:30 – 11:45	Luminous Conflicts: Navigating Architecture, Light, and Visitor Experience in Museums Charalampia Dimitropoulou, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
11:45 – 12:00	Common Views: Sourcing Water – Contradict Historical Narratives constitutes a Museal Exhibition (ACAC, Israel) Irit Carmon Popper, The Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion IIT, Department of Art History, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
12:00 – 12:30	Q&A
12:30 – 14:00	Free time for Lunch
14:30 – 16:30	Afternoon session – Simultaneous museum visits (case studies) From Casa Andresen to Hall of Biodiversity, Galeria da Biodiversidade-Centro Ciência Viva Ferreira da Silva chemistry laboratory restoration – the negotiating process, Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, visit focused on curatorship Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, visit focused on museum architecture Public space and its contradictions. Porto through time, Porto urban tour
17:30 – 18:30	Welcome drink at Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis

Day 2 – Thursday | October 26

8:30 – 9:00	Accreditation
9:00 – 9:45	Two Recent Museum Projects in Southeast Asia; the connect and disconnect of institutional narratives and architectural spaces  Jean François Milou, Architect founder at studioMilou Architecture
9:45 – 10:00	Questions & Answers  Moderated by Nana Meparishvili, Chair of ICAMT, Georgia
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 12:30	Morning session – Key theme #2 – Symbols of Conflict Moderated by Manuel Furtado Mendes, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa
10:30 – 10:45	The Trend to Go Below Ground Level: When Swiss Art Museums Expand Peter Stohler, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Warth,  Switzerland
10:45 – 11:00	Postmortem Objectification: Human Remains in Museums Helen E. Martin & Elizabeth A. Ronald, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States of America
11:00 – 11:15	Exhibition Design as a Medium to Form a Narrative Space for Representing Controversial Cheng-Yi Shih, National Taipei University of Education and National Taipei University of the Arts, Taiwan
11:15 – 11:30	When architecture is dominant Radomíra Sedláková, Czech technical university in Prague, Association of Museums and Galleries in Czech republic, Czech Republic
11:30 – 12:00	Q&A
12:00 – 12:15	Group Photo
12:15 – 14:00	Free time for Lunch
14:30 – 16:30	Afternoon session – simultaneous museum visits (case studies) The Organic Museum, Museu de Serralves Light and atmospheres in the architecture of Atelier António Carneiro, Ateliê António Carneiro – Museu do Porto Reservatório – Museu do Porto Porto Worst Tour, Porto Architecture Tour

Day 3 – Friday | October 27

8:30 – 9:00	Accreditation
9:00 – 9:45	Museums: Containers versus Contents Nuno Grande, Architect, critic, curator and Associate Professor at the University of Coimbra (DARQ/UC), Portugal
9:45 – 10:00	Questions & Answers  Moderated by Helena Barranha, IHA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST, Portugal
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 – 11:15	Morning session – Key theme #3 – Processes and Conflict Moderated by Danusa Castro, Co-Chair of ICAMT, Italy
10:30 – 10:45	Exhibiting the occupation: How the Italian presence in Albania has been represented through exhibitions over the last century Giuseppe Resta, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, Portugal
10:45 – 11:00	Moving Beyond Depoliticized Representations: Understanding the Emergence of Conflicts and Disagreements in the Exhibition-Making Process Jiayi Chang, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
11:00 – 11:15	Q&A
11:30 – 12:30	Morning session – Key theme #4 –  Healing, Resistance and the Future Moderated by Cláudia Garradas, CITCEM – FLUP, Portugal
11:30 – 11:45	Kunal – Museum for a Pre-Harappan Site Yatin Singhal, Architect & Consultant, Department of Archaeology & Museums, Haryana, Chandigarh, India
11:45 – 12:00	Museum collection in historical building : Perspectives from Sudan Shadia Abdrabo Abdelwahab, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan, Sudan
12:00 – 12:15	Conflict, Negotiation, and Indigenous Subjectivity: A Case Study on Curating an Exhibition for the Austronesian Hall at the National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan Chun-wei Fang, National Museum of Prehistory, Taiwan
12:15 – 12:30	Q&A
12:30 – 14:00	Free time for Lunch
14:30 – 16:30	Afternoon session – simultaneous museum visits (case studies) ​​Casa da Arquitectura, visit focused on exhibition design Casa da Arquitectura, Real Vinícola, visit focused on museum architecture Museu da Memória de Matosinhos   Petrichor, The Smell of Rain (Porto Design Biennale 2023), Casa do Design Critical displaying, Exploratório, esad—idea
17:30 – 19:30	Closing remarks and cocktail  Edifício dos Paços do Concelho, Matosinhos

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Venues and Accommodation

Conference venue

Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett – Auditorium
Located in Jardins do Palácio de Cristal
R. de Dom Manuel II
4050-239 Porto – Portugal

Walking:
15 minutes walking from Hotel Tuela (see suggested accommodation below).

By bus:
The Bus Stop is PALÁCIO.

Information about how to get to the case studies visits is available on the related page.

Where to stay?

Our suggestions

The HF Tuela Porto is perfect for your city break and offers spacious rooms and all the comfort you need during an extended visit to Porto!

For those looking for a more practical, short and economical stay, you have at your disposal the Hotel’s Ala Sul (South Wing), which offers the same comfort and delicious breakfast at more attractive prices!

Rua Arq. Marques da Silva, 200
4150-483 Porto – Portugal
(+351) 226 004 747

https://www.hfhotels.com/en/hotels-en/hf-tuela-porto-en/

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