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Transformation as method. ✍The New Design Museum @park_books Fomerly leading @saudipavilion @maatmuseum @mudaclausanne #beijingdesignweek
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#futureinstitutions#anepicyear#newfriendships#creativealliances#architectureedication#futureschool#designresearch#museums#designandarchitecture#designmuseum
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📣📖 A NEW BOOK!!!
This is my last contribution to 2025 - one I hope will become testament to its radically collaborative and generous nature, offering insight into how we can recenter participation and a sense of purpose in spatial practice and its pedagogies.
Link in bio if you want to get your copy!!
#anepicyear
#newfriendships
#creativealliances
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ℹ️ CONNECTIONS AS METHOD is informed by research, approaches, and perspectives from more than 60 international contributors from across the Arab Gulf and its adjecencies, drawing on the first year of The Um Slaim School—a pioneering initiative that emerges from the work of Riyadh-based Syn Architects and collaborators, as convened by Beatrice Leanza and Maryam AlNoaimi.
Featuring architects, artists, educators, urbanists, and writers, these interactions pilot methodologies of knowledge exchange to establish south-south networks of coproduction across disciplinary boundaries. Tracing transnational alliances, case studies, and thematics from the school’s first year, subjects of inquiry challenge established architectural canons, centering alternative spatial histories and material practices to address urgent ecological and social concerns.
Through newly commissioned texts, conversations, visual and theoretical essays, fieldwork, and tooling curricula, the volume rethinks architectural education as an integrated set of forms and modes of knowledge, nurturing processes of experimentation and research toward social debate, public imagining, and civic enlightenment.
Edited by Beatrice Leanza and Maryam AlNoaimi
560pages - English and Arabic
Published by @moussemagazine and @kaph.books
✍️ Full list of contributors on the back cover image and comments!
Sneak peek of this amazing publication in the video 🎥 ⏩ (swipe through).
🤳 🪞 Double trouble with the wonderful @maryamalnoaimi_ on the last 📸!
THANK YOU to everyone that made this possible and particularly to the @saudipavilion Architecture and Design Commission, who has supported this initiative throughout the past year.
#architectureedication
#futureschool
#designresearch
02 Dec 2025
📚✍️ NEW BOOK ALERT!
@park_books 2025 - 🔗in bio
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE - Book launch | MAY 10, Venice (Biennale Opening Days)📌
More Details 🔜
I have been waiting to share this project with great trepidation, because it is filled with ideas, voices and life experiences of enriching inspiration, which are truly deserving the attention of who, like me, believes cultural institutions are few of the public spaces left in our communities where participatory practices and imaginative freedom can still be rehearsed and exercised.
••The New Design Museum•• is my investigative journey through these theoretical and practical reflections_past, present and future_as well as a forum of conversations with brilliant professionals, co-conspirators, courageous thought-makers and practitioners, I have had the pleasure to spend time with, discussing this topic that has been central to my work over the past fifteen years.
The book collates my own essays, long-form colloquia and case studies that together map a new landscape of institutional practices in design and architecture which attempt revisiting methods and canons of conventional museological traditions to respond to the transforming nature of the disciplines in the 21st century and the planetary scope of their practical and discursive dimensions.
🤩More on all this _the people I speak with and about, the outrageously great designers of Offshore studio @offshore________ that have transformed pages into spaces_very soon!
🙏My deepest gratitude to Golden Goose @goldengoose as their generous support has made this project a reality.
🌀Sneak peak of the illustrations especially created by Martin Groch @martin_groch for this publication in second slide.
✨This book is dedicated to my parents, to whom I owe everything✨
#museums #designandarchitecture #designmuseum #futureinstitutions #participation #museumlife #architectureeducation #newbook #newrelease
#writinglife
19 Mar 2025
In this day and age one cannot but celebrate when buildings of and for culture take centrestage in a city's life! What a fantastic achievement for Katrien Leporte and her team, whose intention to lift up the stakes for @designmuseumgent began originally in 2015; and here we are ten years later with a fabulously revamped masterplan orchestrated by @carmodygroarke with @atama_architects and heritage architects @restarchitecten - Bravo!
Breathing new life into the eclectic complex of buildings (from 1600s to late XX century) that's been hosting the museum for decades (one of the oldest in Europe in fact), a new volume stands to restitute the institution to the city skyline, and supplent it with open, freely accessible zones for participation, learning and cocreation, an attitude that infuses every single project across the halls.
The opening show "Public Matter(s) - Designing Democracy" is the intellectual feat of Vera Sacchetti @vsacchetti and Amelie Klein @amelie.klein who've been researching the layered entanglements of participatory politics and aesthetics for years now. So much to take in and outright undo an understanding of democracy as a purely western product, what it takes to keep rehearsing its precepts and what is at stakes if we stop exercising it. Doesn't get more urgent than this.
The curator and Damn magazine co-founder Siegrid Demyttenaere is behind a large part of the curation of permanent interventions infilling the building with ecologically and socially mindful projects and processes of co-design.
With other regional institutions, designers, makers, community groups and civic organizations.
And more around town for Design Fest Gent.
Oh dear, what a load of fun.
Get yourself there!
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About some of the pictures:
First picture is Perseverance (Goddess of Democracy) - zweintopf as part of the Democracy Workout, a fitness trail within the exhibition and selected locations in town.
View of 3D-printed recycled aluminium entrance gate called Freeze Frame 82.2, designed by Unfold.
Walls of reclaimed wood serviced by Rotor.
Rammed earth column in entrance hall made of bricks recycled from the construction site's debris.
03 Oct 2026
Places of care - @studioportaluppi is the freshly established initiative housed in the former studio of the the famed architect which Filippo Taidelli @filippotaidelli_architecture Portaluppi's great-grandson and himself an architect, and his wife the curator Julia Koropoulos are gifting back to the public, focusing their research and cultural events on resurrecting a tradition of making rooted in artisanal know-how, craft intelligence and love for material exploration.
The restorative design which Filippo describes as the enactment of a "virtual relationship" with his ancestor, is a careful choreography of material and functional gestures. The original floor as lithotheque made of 439 pieces of different marbles, refit cabinets painstakingly studied from the original drawings, a replenished garden with antiquities from Portaluppi's own collection scattered throughout, and a refurbished bunker that will play host to events organized by the Foundation.
What a labour of love. Congratulations to Filippo and Julia for their passion and generosity. 🙏👏
When in Milano - #missnot
(By appointment only - check their IG)
16 Sep 2026
Gifted, long awaited, rediscovered, stumbled upon - my-summer-of-recovery stack
📚🌅 👓 ⛱️
#september1
01 Sep 2026
Been away from this place for a while, and as I added yet another year to this life's count just a couple days ago, I was again reminded of how blessed I am with the gifts of a phenomenal family, indefatigable friends (you know who you are) that continue being by my side in good and bad times. I am over grateful to the doctors, nurses, healthcare humans at Ospedale Galeazzi who have and are tending to me, and often are the least visible in the process. THANK YOU.
Not yet fully back on track but surely.
To healing times ahead.
#2026
29 Jul 2026
🗞️ Excited to see the latest issue of the magazine published by La Biennale di Venezia packed with great voices & featuring a piece by truly yours 👇
••
Of Paths Not Yet Taken - Infrastructures and Cultures of Emergence in the 21st Century
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In this essay I look at the global expansion of cultural infrastructures in the 21st century as instruments of urban development, institutional experimentation, and geopolitical articulation, with a particular focus on the Global East, asking if and how curatorial narratives and institutional strategies from across China and the Arab Gulf among others, have challenged notions of cultural agency that were once purview of the Western modern project.
A quarter into the new millennium what can we learn from these experiences, what new discursive formations and practical methodologies have they set forth that might enlighten new pathways for global cultural practices today and tomorrow?
🙏 I am grateful to @paeasaggio for the invitation to share my ideas.
🔗 Get your copy on the online store of La Biennale!
#newreads #futureinstitutions #globalcultu #design #architecture
@labiennale
About the theme Hemispheres:
"The new issue addresses the concept of the hemisphere as a symbolic, geographical, political, and cultural form of the present. Starting from a word that is increasingly recurrent in public discourse and in the languages of our time, the volume examines the new configurations of the contemporary world, between polarities, divisions, belongings, and possibilities for relation. In a present marked by rapid transformations and new geopolitical balances, Emisferi / Hemispheres invites reflection on the forms that skills, sensibilities, and cultural, artistic, and political visions take today"
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08 Jun 2026
An Asian Art historian by training (Ca' Foscari University - Venice) who was based in Beijing for 17 years, Beatrice’s experience in curating, art direction and cultural strategy spans global platforms, fostering dialogue across art, design, architecture, and urban research. She is internationally recognized for her visionary institutional leadership emphasizing collaborative knowledge-making addressing pressing urban and eco-social concerns.
She was the creative director of @beijingdesignweek_official and co-founded The Global School, the first independent institute for design and creative research established in the PRC. She was later director of @maatmuseum – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal), and director of @mudaclausanne – Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (Lausanne, Switzerland),
Her publication “#thenewdesignmuseum – Co.Creating the Present, Prototyping the Future” (Park Books) was reviewed among the best architecture and design books by the Financial Times (Summer 2025) and explores institutional practices addressing 21-century challenges.
International projects include the reserach program Across Chinese Cities, presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale at three consecutive editions (2014 to 2018), Visual Natures: The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the XX and XXI Centuries developed at maat (2020 - 2022), and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
She is a member of the international advisory board of Design Trust (Hong Kong) and is a European Young Leader (2018 – present; Friends of Europe Foundation, Brussel).
She lectures regularly at international events, universities and institutions and has contributed to a variety of publications including books by Park Books, Mousse Publishing, Lars Muller Publishers, Phaidon, Walther Koenig Books and Routledge. Articles and interviews about her and her projects have appeared in Artforum, Abitare, CNN Style, Domus, Dezeen, Disegno, Financial Times, Frieze, Frame, Flash Art International, Metropolis, Monocle, The Architect Newspaper, The Art Newspaper, T Magazine/The New York Times, The Guardian
05 May 2026
On a spontaneous trip to Salento amidst the lush macchia mediterranea, managed to see this piece of wonder - the Monumental Cemetery of Parabita - thanks for the fantastic tip @davide_fabio_colaci 🙏🙌
Completed in 1987 by GRAU (Gruppo Romano Architetti e Urbanisti) It was commissioned in the late 1960s by the local municipality.
Couldn't help but think of the National Parliament House in Daka Bangladesh by Luis Kahn which i had the good fortune of visiting back a few years ago.
#localarchitecture #salento with the magical @ramoprimostudio @pietro.peyron
04 May 2026
An exciting outlook and warm invite to the book launch
🗓 Tuesday, March 31, 2026 I 6:30 PM
📚 The New Design Museum – Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future
Beatrice Leanza (author), Park Books, 2025
Beatrice Leanza will be joined by Vera Sacchetti, Matylda Krzykowski, Filipa Ramos, and Chrissie Muhr for a unique gathering of a multiplicity of curatorial perspectives and forces at Domushaus EG on design, art, and architecture. Together, they will discuss her comprehensive investigation into the role of cultural institutions as engines of knowledge production – spaces in which a democratic politics of mutual care and shared responsibility can be explored and enacted.
The New Design Museum brings together theories and voices from leading international institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed – and continually transforming – nature of design in the 21st century and its planetary scope in both practical and discursive dimensions. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across different geographical locations, this volume reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need transformation – of their missions, programs, and outreach platforms – to respond to an ever-expanding outlook on design as a field moving beyond its traditional presentation as an object-based practice.
@beabiyue in conversation w/
@vsacchetti
@matyldakrzykowski
@filipaaaaaaaaaaa
@chrissiemuhr
Design: @offshore________
@isabel___seiffert with @lea.n.michel
Illustration: @martin_groch
Published by: @park_books
23 Mar 2026
“Connections as Method: Relational Pedagogies and Participatory Spatial Practice” explores architecture as a living dialogue between people, places, and shared knowledge.
Published on the occasion of the Venice Biennale Architettura 2025, and developed within the framework of the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia @saudipavilion @archmoc, the book brings together over 60 voices rethinking how we teach, learn, and practice space.
Edited by @beabiyue and @maryamalnoaimi_ it takes us through essays, conversations, and case studies, it proposes connection as both method and responsibility — foregrounding collaboration, situated knowledge, and participatory spatial practice across geographies.
Design @wearebytwo
Co-published with @moussemagazine
With contributions by:
@actofoneness
@bricklab
@bytwo
@calinematar
@civilarchitecture
@collectiveforarchitecturelebanon
@loudreaders
@faysaltabbarah
@georgearbid
@ghadaalsadoun
@hayfagwaiz
@instituteforpostnaturalstudies
@jia_yi_gu
@kawtheralsaffar
@laurianghinitoiu
@maghras
@mahamalluh
@matyldakrzykowski
@nouraalholtroparchitecture
pelintan
@ranabeiruti
@rosariotalevi
@saraalmutlaq
#ConnectionsAsMethod #RelationalPedagogies
#ParticipatoryPractice #SpatialPractice
#kaphbooks
22 Feb 2026
Backlog of a fantastic last-of-2025 trip to Bahrain, in incredible company!
Thanks to @nouralsayeh for taking me along the thoughtful sophistication of The Pearling Path's acupuncture interventions across the historic neighbourhood of Muharraq (which in a feat of nostalgia reminded me of the projects we developed through Beijing Design Week in the capital's hutong districts over a decade ago in Dashilar and Baitasi).
Cast among the pathway of streetlamps and reclaimed small squares, are @valerioolgiati visitor centre, the music house by Kersten Geers David Ban Severen, the House of Architectural Heritage by @leopoldbanchini and AlSayeh herself, of course @studioanneholtrop various gems from his own studio, to the Pearl Museum and the Post Office renovation among others, or the open-air garage by Christian Kerez.
Immense gratitude to the fantastic @maryamalnoaimi_ for taking us through the districts' meandering alleys during the Muharraq Nights festival, and connecting to the lively coaterie of practitioners in town - with the wonderful @olaznad @maryamaljomairi @line.tifa @aikarimi @bahrainidanish and more.
I marvelled at the expanse of the new home of @alriwaq - thanks so much Bayan Kanoo, @jaafar.alhaddad and team for the insightful conversations around its next plans.
I just can't wait to be back!
(swipe through for some postcards 🌬️✨)
#agreatyear #lifejourneys #newcollaborations #designandthecity #bahrain
27 Dec 2025
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