• 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.