Imaginations Cross Cultures
Comitted to Community Engagement we established our non-profit Imaginations Cross Cultures. This entity grew out of volunteering work since 2008 and was formally registered in 2016 by Anne Marie and Robin. Imaginations Cross Cultures outset is to foster greater cross-cultural understanding between young people through creative co-creations across professions, ages and national borders. Activities are focused on making full scale creative responses to how a built environment can best reflect and foster a strong local cultural identity and better civil society.
Summer Schools are catalysts for change where thoughts and ideas are shared and shaped by the future generation. Our methodology is based on teams, hands-on working, and encouraging open-ended discussions to spark curiosity and grow ideas which can be harvested and owned by local communities. So far, we have conducted summer schools as far spread as Asia, Middle East and Europe involving over 15 academic institutions from London to Rio, Beirut to Seoul. More than 200 students, educators and alumni’s of more than 30 nationalities have joined our schools, and even more have visited the resulting exhibitions.
Please get in touch if you are interested in becoming a volunteer helping facilitate or have a project we could collaborate on via AMG@imaginationscc.org
Co-Creators:
Aalborg University, Dept. of Architecture and Design, Aalborg
Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Beirut
American University Beirut, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Beirut
American University Cairo, Cairo
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London
CKU / DCCD, Danish Centre for Culture and Development
Cultural Projects, London
Damascus University, Faculty of Architecture, Damascus
Danish Architects’ Association, Denmark
Danish Arts Council, Denmark
Dankook University, Seoul
FAU-UFRJ, Rio
GAIA-Heritage, Beirut
Galmstrup Architects, London
University of Genoa, Genoa
Hanyang University ERICA, Seoul
Hongik University, Seoul
Henning Larsen Architects, Levant & Copenhagen
TU Berlin University, Landscape architecture and Open Space Planning, Berlin
Lebanese American University, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Beirut
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul
Museum Skanderborg, Denmark
Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen
SCU Skanderborg, Denmark
UIA Copenhagen 2023
UIA International Union of Architects
UIA Rio 2020
UIA Seoul 2017
University of Seoul
USC 10, Skanderborg
VGTU, Vilnius
Yonsei University, Seoul