• 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
Current projects and initiatives
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
BRAISE ET CENDRE • BLAZE AND CINDER • GLUT UND ASCHE
Project preparing an exposition in 2011 with a focus on the work of Blaise Cendrars and the period of globalization and modernity in the 20th century.
Organisation of an interdisciplinary team of literature and cultural science; An international literature contest is prepared and integrated into the project (special site forthcoming).
At the international Symposium of KOGGE, an association of writers and literature in Minden (Germany) Blaise Cendrars is 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.
