Upcoming events
Manthey Kula lectures in Malmö and Lund
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2023/03/02 at Form/Design Center in Malmö, 5:30-7pm
2023/03/08 at Lund Architecture Symposium in Lund
In conjunction with the exhibition at SPARK, the founders of Norwegian architecture office Manthey Kula, Beate Hølmebakk and Per Tamsen, will give two public lectures. The first one at Form/Design Center is an event called ABAR, organised by Sveriges Arkitekter Skåne. The second one is a part of Lund Architecture Symposium at the School of Architecture, Dept of Architecture and the Built Environment in LTH, Lund University.
Manthey Kula was founded in 2004 by architects Beate Hølmebakk and Per Tamsen. Hølmebakk is a graduate from The Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she now holds a professorship. Tamsen is a graduate from Lund University.
Manthey Kula’s work is widely published, represented in exhibitions, and acquired by international architecture collections. Their projects have been nominated for the EU Mies Award in 2009, 2011, 2018 and 2020. Recently both Hølmebakk and Tamsen received the Prince Eugene Medal for outstanding artistic achievement.
Past events
SPARK Talks #8: Visions Of The Ground
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2023/02/26, 3-4 pm
At SPARK, Båstadsgatan 4, Malmö
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In line with our aim to discuss and conclude the ideas brought forth in the exhibitions, SPARK invites you to a finissage and artist talk with Secretary and a panel of guest critics. The talk will centre around the exhibition's proposition to open up and make the ground floor of buildings completely public, giving the space back to the citizens to explore. We will also bring up the use of architectural visualizations to project various perspectives on public spaces, something that Secretary has been researching and discussing in a number of projects since their founding in 2017.
Participants:
Kalle Landin, urban planner, White Arkitekter and founding member of CSAM
Fredrik Torisson, PhD, architect and associate senior lecturer at the Dept. of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, Lund University.
Helen Runting, PhD, urban planner and theorist, Secretary
Moderator: Max Gerthel, SPARK
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SPARK Talks #7: Architects vs Artists
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2022/06/21, 3-4 pm
At Parapeten, Sveriges Arkitekter's pergola, H22, Helsingborg
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On June 21st at H22 in Helsingborg SPARK will organise a round table talk with a group of Swedish architects, artists and curators around the topic "Architects' and Artists' roles in the conceptualization of Public Space". It will be held in the Sveriges Arkitekter pergola next to the H55 Pavilion on Parapeten, opposite the SeaU Congress Centre. The talk is open to the public and will be held in Swedish.
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Participants:
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Jonas Elding, architect, founding partner of Elding Oscarson, member of Kungliga Akademien för de Fria Konsterna and Guest Professor, Politecnico de Milano
Edvin Bylander, architect, Our Architecture Office
Barbro Westling, visual artist and writer
Malin Zimm, Editor-in Chief of the magazine Arkitektur
Susan Bolgar, project co-ordinator, Kivik Art Centre
Jeanette Gostomski, curator for the exhibition Skala 1:1 at Sofiero Slott
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SPARK Talks #6: Recollection Of Our Memories
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with Mikaela Steby Stenfalk and Tove Dumon Wallsten
Modered by Per-Johan Dahl
SPARK Talks #5 with Sebastian Skovsted, Steffen Levring and Studio See-Daa
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From the outset, architecture is a multisensory experience: Visual, touch, smell and sound all make up the overall impression of a space. Historically, the visual impact weighs heavier than others, because we experience architecture at so many scales, and the other senses lose their relevance at a distance. However, the sounds of the city and have fascinated thinkers and artists for centuries, and there is an awareness of its influence on our well-being as well as our memories of places.
Sound plays an important role in both the conception and experience of architecture, as highlighted in the collaboration between Johansen Skovsted and Steffen Levring in their exhibition Currents and Structures at SPARK.
By diving into the audial dimension, new worlds can be discovered. But how do soundscapes appear and how do we acknowledge them? Can we talk about authorship of sounds as we do of buildings? Can architects work consciously to accommodate and explore soundscapes in their structures? In this talk we will bring light on the relationship between sound and space.
SPARK @ SSDD 2021:
Erica Hörteborn digital lecture
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During Southern Sweden Design Days in Malmö, May 27-30, SPARK participates with a digital event, (in)Formed By Wind, a film where architect and researcher Erica Hörteborn presents a kinetic, knitted design prototype that challenges and explores the textile material within architecture. Wind is both used and dampened, merging engineering, architecture, and art in the installation.
There is something intriguing in the way a textile moves in the wind. A light textile material picks up the, seemingly, random movement in the wind. Creating structures in motion with soft, billowing shapes that seem to dance. New means of expression were found through exploring the structure of the knit and its ability to create a three-dimensional effect on the surface level as well as on an architectural scale. The project is part of Erica Henrysson’s research at Chalmers, where she is working in the intersection between material, form and force. The overlap between the fields of textile, architecture, and wind.
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Erica Hörteborn has a double degree: Master of Architecture and a MSc in Architectural Engineering. Since fall 2016 she is a PhD student and part of the Architecture and Engineering Research Group. Her research explores textile form, material, and production methods, as well as mathematical sketching, simulations and physical prototypes, with a focus on wind and kinetic architecture. “How can we, through the use of textiles, create architecture that use and benefit from the wind?”
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SPARK Talks #4 om Ornamentets funktion. Söndag den16 maj på Zoom med: ​
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Brrum (Ulrika Karlsson, Cecilia Lundbäck och Veronica Skeppe)
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David Svensson, bildkonstnär
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Max Gerthel, arkitekt och curator på SPARK.
SPARK Talk #3 Sunday Nov 22 on Zoom with:
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Ana Goidea, architect, PhD fellow, Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University.
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Jessica Abbott, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Biology, Lund University.
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David Andréen, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University.
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Per-Johan Dahl, Associate Professor, Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment, Lund University.
SPARK Talk #2 D Samtal om bl a den skapande människan, relationen till material, 3d printing och arbetsprocesser.
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Ingar Brinck, professor Teoretisk filosofi Lunds universitet,
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Polymorf arkitekter
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Per-Johan Dahl, lektor i Arkitektur LTH