Layout of Seminar Room, 2001

Seminar "The Potential of Art" at Brandts Klædefabrik

For a seminar about the social and political role of art in today's society at Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik we proposed to redesign the room. The seminar was among other issues about how we structure our life, interaction and society, and we wanted to incorporate that in the structure of the seminar.

We rejected the traditional and business invented way of having talks. This in order to create better possibilities for dialogue through changing the power and focus centring. As well as allowing different physical forms of participation.

There were three modules during the day and each of them had four speakers. When one module was on, the speakers from the other modules were placed in the audience. This spread the ones that were most likely to speak.

The seminar was held 5 September 2001 and arranged by Centre for Urbanity, Dialogue and Information (CUDI) and Karen L. Kristoffersen. Kenneth A. Balfelt was one of the speakers.

This was the start of a project to work with cultural institutions and companies to temporary redesign their meeting rooms. The project is initiating a discussion about the paradigm of this important space, as well as the restrictions and possibilities it offers for an ethical and holistic discourse.

The seminar room before kick-off