Diese Expert:innen und Visionär:innen waren dabei:

Partner and Director of Strategy at MVRDV, Jan Knikker (NL/DE) joined MVRDV in 2008, just as the office had begun to face the consequences of the Global Financial Crisis. Prior to this, Knikker shaped OMA’s public image for nearly a decade, after having first began his career as a journalist. As Partner and Director of Strategy at MVRDV, Knikker drives Business Development and Public Relations efforts, spearheading a large and dynamic studio that also includes the office’s visualization capacity. He further leads the office’s branding efforts, and MVRDV’s expansion into new markets, by supporting the office’s ambition to generate solutions to global challenges through a multifaceted approach to architecture and urbanism.

Knikker regularly lectures at international, commercial, and academic venues in Germany (Polis Convention, Stiftung Baukultur), the UK (RIBA), Israel (CTBUH, Bezalel, TAU), Colombia (Universidad Nacional, Utadeo), Austria (MAK), Australia (RMIT), Kuala Lumpur (UCSI), and many other notable venues. In addition to his extensive public relations work, Knikker has written and contributed to numerous MVRDV publications and exhibitions, including MVRDV Buildings with Founding Partners, Jacob Van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. Deputy Editor of Domus 2019, he also regularly contributes to a range of design-field publications. He is a member of the HNI Heritage Network, and Gestaltungsbeirat of the City of Wiesbaden, led the online design magazine Dafne, and from 2007 to 2011 was a member of the International Projects commission of the Netherlands’ Architecture Funds.

Architect SAFA Juho Grönholm is co-founder and partner at ALA Architects. The Helsinki based architectural firm founded in 2005 specializes in cultural buildings, modernist renovation projects and transportation architecture. ALA has been one of the frontrunners of a new generation of Nordic architecture practices completing several major public projects, such as Kilden Performing Arts Centre in Norway (2011), and Helsinki Central Library Oodi (2018) and the expansion of Helsinki Airport (2021) in Finland. Juho holds a master’s degree in architecture from Helsinki University of Technology and is a member of the Finnish Association of Architects SAFA. In addition to his day job, he has taught at the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, nowadays part of Aalto University, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, as well as at Washington University in St. Louis’ Helsinki International Semester 2015.

After studying at the Architectural Association in London, Alan Stanton worked briefly with Norman Foster before moving to California to study at UCLA, where he was awarded a fellowship in Urban Design. During his time in California he co-founded ‘Chrysalis’ with a group of architects and artists. Returning to Europe, Alan worked with Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Following its completion he taught at the Architectural Association and established his own practice working on projects in the UK, France and Italy.

Alan formed the partnership Stanton Williams with Paul Williams in 1985. As founding directors they have been responsible for the creative direction of the practice since its inception and continue to have a leading design role in the studio’s projects. In 2012, the practice was awarded the Stirling Prize for the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge. Other notable Stanton Williams past projects are the UAL campus for Central St Martins at King’s Cross and Kings Cross Square, the Millennium Seedbank and the Musée d’Arts de Nantes. More recent projects include the ‘Open-Up’ project at the Royal Opera House and the new Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Through lectures and the publications of work he promotes a distinctive architectural vision based on the belief that a profound understanding of space is a prerequisite for great architecture, and that context and heritage are creative forces in design. Alan has been Vice President of the Architectural Association Council, a member of CABE design review panel and the RIBA Awards Committee and he is currently a Trustee of Open-City. Alan was elected a Royal Designer for Industry in 2005 and a Royal Academician in 2009.

In dem Theater ihrer Eltern großgeworden, war Anna Kleeblatt bereits während ihres Studiums der Betriebswirtschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Marketing an verschiedenen Musiktheatern tätig. Von 2003 bis 2005 war sie bei der Bundesgartenschau München für die Neupositionierung innerhalb der Bereiche Marketing, Werbung und Merchandising tätig. Von 2006 bis 2012 setzte sich Anna Kleeblatt an der Bayerischen Staatsoper als Leitung für Vermarktung, Vertrieb und Steuerung Development für den Ausbau der internationalen Vertriebsaktivitäten ein und war für die Betreuung des Marketings sowie für die Planung und Steuerung der Auslastung von Opern- und Konzertveranstaltungen zuständig. Seit 2012 ist Anna Kleeblatt als selbstständige Unternehmensberaterin für Kulturinstitutionen und -unternehmen in den Bereichen Marketing, Sales & Service tätig. Darüber hinaus ist sie Lehrbeauftragte an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Masterstudiengang Kulturmanagement, und der Theaterakademie August Everding, sie ist Mitglied im Arbeitskreis Strategie der Tourismus Initiative München und hält regelmäßig Vorträge u.a. beim Deutschen Bühnenverein. Als Initiatorin des Faust-Festival München erhielt sie die Auszeichnung der Europäischen Trendmarke des Jahres 2018.

Anna Kleeblatt hat die Organisation, Durchführung und Dokumentation des Projekts KULTURBAUTEN DER ZUKUNFT inne und moderiert die Digital Lectures.