{{images:world_drives.jpg}} //• is an international network registered at the chamber of commerce of Canton Zurich as non-profit association • is an associated Institution of the IB Berlin (International Association of Universities with seats in different places and countries) and will contribute to its development • stimulates cultural projects promoting the image of world society in culture and arts of specific groups and nations • builds bridges between science and culture. // {{en:avenir.jpg|}} La Chaux-de-Fonds: place of birth of Blaise Cendrars, Louis Chevrolet and Le Corbusier, three innovators at the end of 19th centuray (picture: cultur prospectiv, 2008) ====== Cultural Projects ====== ===Current project=== "Der nicht mehr gebrauchte Stall" – **international exhibition about the Alpine landscape of agrîcultural buildings on the background of global transformations** in Austria, Italy and Switzerland [[http://www.culturprospectiv.ch/en:world_driven|see more.]] Contribution **"Cendrars, Corbusier, Chevrolet. An essay on modern times made in La Chaux-de-Fonds"** to the symposium La Chaux-de-Fonds, Chandigarh, Brasilia - Utopia and Reality of Urbanism in the 20th Century {{:en:de_pliant.pdf|program}}. The contribution is linked to plans for events with a focus on the work of Blaise Cendrars and the period of globalization and modernism in the 20th century. A starting event has taken place at the international Symposium of KOGGE, an association of writers and literature in Minden (Germany). **Blaise Cendrars was presented as an explorer of [[http://www.mt-online.de/lokales/kultur/3172613_Raum_erzaehlt_sich_selbst.html|Räume der Erzählung – Spaces of narration]]**. **What happens when planners and writers walk together trough cities?** Under the name of "Papillon" the concept of city projects is developed and presented: planner's planimetric spaces are confronted with poetic spaces [[http://www.swo.de/tvrstart.html|Newsletter in German]]. ===Previous projects=== A series of national and international exposition projects serve as source of competences and knowlege: * WORLD SOCIETY IN ZURICH • WELTGESELLSCHAFT IN ZURICH (2007); mandate of the World Society Foundation [[de:weltgesellschaft_in_zuerich |see in German.]] * WELTFLECHTWERK – DIE EINHEIT HINTER DEN GEGENSAETZEN Exposition in Berlin, Calw, Bozen at the occasion of the 125th anniversary of birth of Hermann Hesse (2002); mandate of the city of Calw and Baden Württemberg. * TERRITOIRE IMAGINAIRE Expo 02. Swiss National Exposition in Bienne (2002); mandate of the Swiss Association of Cantonal Banks. * 900 JAHRE ZUKUNFT - 900 YEARS of FUTURE Exposition in the monastery Mehrerau at the Lake of Bodensee (1999); mandate of the government of Land Vorarlberg. [[de:ausstellungen|See for more details Ausstellungen]]