The Otago Museum invites you to be part of one of the big debates surrounding modern architecture: When should 20th Century architecture become heritage?
In A Nutshell:
FUTURE FORUM - WHEN SHOULD 20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE BECOME HERITAGE?
Thursday 12 August, 7pm
Hutton Theatre, FREE!
Refreshments available for purchase
Long Live the Modern continues its nationwide tour in the second half of this year at the Otago Museum (until 3 October), where the exhibition will be supplemented by
a public debate this Thursday 12 August which asks the difficult question outlined above. Members on the invited panel include Douglas Lloyd Jenkins, the Director of the
Hawkes Bay Museum and Art Gallery; photographer Gary Blackman (whose photo's are included in the accompanying text of the same name, edited by Julie Gatley); Glen Hazelton will represent the Dunedin City Council; Steve Macknight, a local engineer will offer his expertise to the discussion, and Peter Entwisle, art historian and writer, is introduced with an "unmatchable knowledge of Dunedin's architectural heritage".
It sounds like an amazing group of experts to have in the room to address the difficult subject of architectural and landscape heritage, but a rewarding discussion when we consider the relative youthfulness of our built environment in an historical (global) perspective, a youthfulness which has been matched by playfulness and inventiveness – as Gatley's book, and this exhibition promotes.
If you're in or near Dunedin this week, this will be an enlightening and engaging dialogue about the built fabric that shapes the space around you (and our stretched out islands), so open a bottle of red to keep warm and brave, and head down to the
Otago Museum.
Also this event and exhibition shouldn't be mentioned without pointing you to DOCOMOMO(NZ), the local stronghold of those dedicated to the DOcumentation and COnservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the MOdern MOvement around the globe.
Check them out here.