Open: Thursday, 13 th of June, 19.00   Nestled between the many layers of Fužine Castle’s history, the collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design is an eclectic yet intrinsically coherent body of documents and objects related to space and materiality. Drawing on the idea of a transhistorical museum, the exhibition Castle → Concepts, Objects, Spaces recognizes history as a stratified amalgamation of narrative strands between which it seeks intersections, concentrations of meaning, reflections, and echoes.   The confrontation between the castle and museum objects does not put a spotlight on the building’s history but focuses in the first place on the life that transpired there, the shifts it provoked, and the new mindset, knowledge, and innovations it has bred through centuries in cahoots with the surrounding nature. This trans-historicity can also be understood as a quest for the timelessness of museum artefacts and the castle’s walls that nevertheless does ...

The Museum in Community 2 The Museum of Architecture and Design park Five projects that form the exhibition in MAO park are the outcomes of collaboration between different organisations in the Fužine neighbourhood where MAO is located and students from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the Faculty of Arts. They tackled community challenges using design methods, approaches and tools. The exhibition presents the prototypes of social innovations that have the potential for realization.   The second edition of The Museum in Community picks up where the first left off, having laid the foundations for collective action of the Fužine community organizations. Our aim is to show how strong a community can be when it connects across generations and institutions. Architecture and design, as reflected in everyday life, are entry points for connecting with the community. The museum environment is a place for knowledge exchange and co-creation and represents a safe environment where ...

Opening: 21. november 2024   Curator: Alexandra Midal Assistant curator: Emma Pflieger   The 28th Biennial of Design (BIO28), which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, will take place between November 21, 2024 and April 6, 2025. It is organized by the Museum of Architecture and Design and the Centre for Creativity, with the curatorial concept developed by professor and curator Alexandra Midal together with Emma Pflieger, assistant curator. This year’s biennial represents an important milestone in sixty years of development in the field of design.   This year’s biennial represents an important milestone in sixty years of development in the field of design.Political, bold, vibrant, and provocative, Double Agent: Do You Speak Flower? examines the figure of floriography, a code hidden within flowers to transmit secret information. The core of this transdisciplinary and multifaceted exhibition scrutinizes the pivotal role of floriography used by women to portray ...