Dezeen teamed up with MAAT on a live talk to mark the opening of its spring exhibition programme.
Moderated by Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, the panel featured curators Aric Chen, Martina Muzi and Angela Rui.
The talk was part of the Lisbon-based Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology's (MAAT) event Open/Closed Systems, a day of virtual talks and performances presented live from Lisbon to celebrate the museum's new season of shows.
Dezeen readers can catch the rest of the event live from MAAT's Youtube channel.
Aric Chen, portrait by Mark Cocksedge
Focusing on two upcoming exhibitions, X is Not a Small Country curated by Chen and Muzi, and Aquaria, curated by Rui, the panel discussed the topics explored in the shows and the role of museums in exploring issues concerning humanity's collective future. X is Not a Small Country, running at MAAT until 6 September 2021, explores our current post-global condition by observing the processes of de-globalisation and geopolitical realignment that have been accelerated and distorted during the pandemic.
Martina Muzi
It includes nine newly created projects by international practitioners working across design, architecture and art that investigate the current global state from multiple geographic perspectives, and features work by Liam Young, Ibiye Camp and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Aquaria, the other exhibition to feature in MAAT's spring programme, reflects on the challenges we could face when re-thinking our relat...