Studio Miessen

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In tandem, nOffice is supported by the content structure of Studio Miessen, a collaborative agency for spatial strategy and cultural analysis, accommodating change through research, writing, teaching and design. Unique solutions are being delivered through a network of high-profile international practitioners with expertise in contemporary art, curatorial practice, architecture, and urbanism. Collaborating with art institutions, NGOs, local government, and independent practitioners, project teams are assembled on an ad hoc basis delivering a polyphonic team of experts in regards to the issues presented by clients ranging from Europe to the Middle East and the US. In various collaborations, Studio Miessen has published several books including Spaces of Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002), Did Someone Say Participate? (MIT, 2006), With/Without (Bidoun, 2007), The Violence of Participation (Sternberg, 2007), East Coast Europe (Sternberg, 2008), and frequently contributes as editorial consultant and writer to a selection of more than 15 international magazines and journals. The Studio has recently acted as curatorial advisor during Slovenia’s presidency to the EU council, worked closely on projects with the European Kunsthalle Cologne, Serpentine Gallery London, the think tank Demos, the Venice, Istanbul and Shenzhen Biennials, Volume magazine (Amsterdam), and Bidoun magazine (New York). Lectures and conferences including at Cooper Union, Columbia University, MIT, and Centro Cultural Tijuana. In 2008, the Studio initiated and now directs the Architectural Association Winter School Middle East (Dubai).

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www.studiomiessen.com

Collaborations

PROGRAM e.V. (Initiative for Art + Architecture Collaborations)

Carson Chan, Fotini Lazaridou Hatzigoga & Kari Rittenbach

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PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies. PROGRAM intends to enrich and broaden our definitions of architecture, and to challenge traditional, domesticated modes of architectural practice and representation. Developing each project independent of an overarching agenda, PROGRAM is striving to diversify the ways we understand and make architecture. Central to our project is to engage the discourse with emerging creative processes that activate the space between pure theoretical research, professional praxis and architecture's social role.

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2008-2009

www.programonline.de