The MAK Center and R.A.M. Publications were pleased to present artist Kaucyila Brooke and Virginia Heckert, Associate Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, as they discussed Brooke’s recent monograph, Vitrinen in Arbeit.

The MAK Center’s free community day included a walkthrough of the exhibition Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism with guest curator Nader Vossoghian

The MAK Center and The Society for the Moving Image in the Built Environment (SMIBE) co-presented a screening of The Cool School (dir. Morgan Neville, 2008) at the Schindler House.

Featuring seven residences dating from 1926 through 1964, by seminal architects R.M. Schindler, Gregory Ain, Raphael Soriano, Harwell Harris and Craig Ellwood, this tour focused on the middle decades of the 20th century, during which California established its reputation as a beacon of advanced architecture with residential designs that embodied the famed indoor-outdoor modern lifestyle.

Egypt-based collaborators and UFI Fellows Alaa Khaled, a poet and essayist, and Salwa Rashad, a visual artist, presented images and ideas culled from their research drawing upon conversations and experiences the two had with immigrants from numerous Arabic-speaking communities in Los Angeles and Orange County.

The MAK Center in collaboration with the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) presented the 2009 sound. concert at the Schindler House.

Artists and UFI Fellows Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi make up the collaborative team Pages, as which they aim to create possibilities for reflecting on politically and socially contingent conditions of cultural practice in order to generate a space of criticality.

The idea of moving people in megacities has changed in the last 20 years. This Skype conference, hosted at the MAK Center and moderated by Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber (in Austria) explored transportation trends unique to the city of Beijing with panelist Felix Creutzig (in Berkeley) and Rainer Prohaska (in Los Angeles).

The MAK Urban Future Initiative (UFI) ran from 2008-10 at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House and was dedicated to creating meaningful cross-cultural exchange about the challenges confronting cities worldwide.

For six years, artist Fritz Haeg opened his geodesic dome residence on Sundown Drive in Los Angeles to events, happenings, gatherings, meetings, pageantry, performances, shows, stunts and spectacles

With reference to his current Haydn exhibition and earlier projects on Mozart and Da Ponte, Professor Herbert Lachmayer’s lecture shed new light on this Austro-American relationship and introduced the sustained importance of enlightened absolutism for Vienna, the development of 20th century avant-gardes, and Hollywood popular culture.

Produced by the La Jolla-based alternative art space and salon haudenschildGarage, this performance of Steve Fagin's The Last Book showcased its unique inclusion of text, drawings, moving images and sound, all manifest in the form of a medieval illuminated manuscript.

Lima-based architect and UFI Fellow Alexia Leon hosted a conversation with Los Angeles-based architect Christian Stayner

This discussion, hosted by the MAK Center and LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, was inspired by the visionary schemes created for the competition A New Infrastructure: Innovative Transit Solutions for Los Angeles

Andrea Fraser, Simon Leung and Lincoln Tobier first gained recognition in New York in the late 1980s/early 1990s, working in art practices which simultaneously addressed the post-conceptual legacy, critical theory and contemporary social and political life

UFI fellow Xiangning Li gave a presentation analyzing the transplantation, application, adaptation and distortion of Western models in China