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Much of the public discussion about cities with important historical heritage revolves around the contradiction between urbanization and museumification. Should they be developed or preserved? On the one hand, no one would deny the importance of preserving a historical environment; after all, a city is a space of history. The continuity of urban culture is one of the reasons why we choose a particular city to live in. On the other hand, cities need to be constantly renovated. And the opportunity to take part in this social process is also one of the reasons why we choose to live in cities. But such renovation is often traumatic, both for residents and for municipal institutions. How can we ensure a balance for cities, give them the opportunity to develop, change, and also preserve what they have, and make them more accessible and tangible?

Moderators
Orlova Milena, Editor-in-Chief, The Art Newspaper Russia
Liza Savina, Co-founder, Sparta Cultural Initiatives Foundation

Orlova Milena

Editor-in-Chief, The Art Newspaper Russia

Journalist, art critic, editor-in-chief of ‘The Art Newspaper Russia’. Author of several hundred articles on art, art market, museums, cultural policies. Acts as an expert in the field of art in radio and television programs. She worked as a senior researcher at the Tretyakov State Gallery, art reviewer, deputy manager of the culture department of the ‘Kommersant’ newspaper, editor-in-chief of the contemporary art magazine ‘Artchronika’. In 2012, she became the editor-in-chief of ‘The Art Newspaper Russia’, founded by the publisher Inna Bazhenova. The newspaper is a part of the most competent information network in the world in the field of art, the only international publication in Russia dedicated to art. ‘The Art Newspaper Russia’ annually awards its own Prize, the solemn ceremony takes place in the Manege and Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.

Liza Savina

Co-founder, Sparta Cultural Initiatives Foundation

Liza Savina - curator, producer. She graduated from the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions with a degree in art-marketing. She began her career as a curator in the mid-2000s at the Ars Magna photo gallery, quickly establishing herself as one of the most active representatives of the Russian art scene. In 2009 she became the managing partner of the AL Gallery of contemporary art. In 2013 she founded the SPARTA Curatorial Agency, and in 2014 she was included in the Top 100 main people in Russian art according to The Art Newspaper Russia.

Since 2017, Liza Savina has been focusing on curatorial and educational projects. She teaches art management at the RMA Business School in Moscow, and the Masters School in St. Petersburg, in 2017/2018 she supervises the educational program of the special project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (Tyumen, Russia).

In 2017, Liza Savina co-founded the Sparta Foundation for Cultural Initiatives. In 2018, the foundation launched the Smart Urban platform, which develops initiatives in the field of culture and urban studies, and also integrates cultural projects into city marketing strategies. In 2019 Liza Savina became the curator and producer of the New Cultural Geography city project in St. Petersburg.
In 2019, Savina curated the Sounds of the Perfect Past project at the Museum of the History of Vietnam in Hanoi, organized by the Sparta Foundation for Cultural Initiatives in cooperation with the 21st Century Hermitage Foundation, Gazprom International and the State Hermitage Museum. In 2020, Savina acted as a producer of the project “Measure of Chaos. Science as a Way of Communication” (St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk) within the framework of the international program Museum 15/24, implemented by the State Hermitage Museum and the Hermitage XXI Century Foundation.
In 2021, she led the project of development of the Science Quarter together with Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.V. Lyulin. In 2020-2021 the team of Sparta Foundation created and tested the methodology for creative design labs as the new practice for young talents.

Panellists
Boris Bernaskoni, Founder, Bureau Bernaskoni
Mounir Bouchenaki, Incumbent Director, Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage (online)
Fabio Cacciatori, Founder, Illogic; Founder, Digital Expo
Zorina Myskova, Director, Hermitage XXI Century Foundation
Alisa Prudnikova, Program Director, V-A-C Foundation, GES-2 House of Culture
Anna Trapkova, General Director, Museum of Moscow
Anton Finogenov, Deputy General Director, DOM.RF Foundation

Boris Bernaskoni

Founder, Bureau Bernaskoni

Boris Bernaskoni, born February 26th, 1977 in Moscow, is an award-winning architect and the founder of BERNASKONI, an interdisciplinary bureau that works at the intersection of architecture, communication and industrial design. BERNASKONI has been in business since 2000 and has completed a number of Russia's most iconic architectural projects. Among them is Russia’s first presidential center Yeltsin Center, a building-transformer Hypercube and the first public building in Skolkovo Innovation Center, Matrex. The latter was showcased at the main exhibition of the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture. Bernaskoni has a very distinct architectural aesthetic, one that is firmly rooted in Russian Constructivism. He defines it as ‘Hyperfunctionalism’ and pays homage to the geometries and simple materials applications of the Modernist movement. He received a Master of Arts in Architectural Studies from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 2000.

Mounir Bouchenaki

Incumbent Director, Arab Regional Centre for World Heritage

Mounir Bouchenaki born in November 1943 in Algeria. He contributed during four years (2013–2017) to the launching of a UNESCO category II Centre in Bahrain. He was elected Director-General of ICCROM (2005–2011). He was the initiator of the ICCROM/Sharjah Centre. His appointment at ICCROM followed a long career at UNESCO, where he was Assistant Director-General for Culture, Director of the Division of Cultural Heritage, Director of the World Heritage Centre at UNESCO, and in his own country, Director of Antiquities, Museums and Historic Monuments from 1970 to 1981. He holds a PhD in archaeology and ancient history. He has been awarded the titles of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Officier des Arts et des Lettres, and Commander des Arts et Lettres. In 2002, he was raised to the rank of Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity by the President of the Italian Republic. He was awarded by the President of the Algerian Republic with a Golden Medal of Culture, and by the French President of the Republic the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He published a number of books and articles. His last book is titled Mutilated Heritage (2017). Presently, he is Special Advisor to the UNESCO Director General and to the ICCROM Director General.

Fabio Cacciatori

Founder, Illogic; Founder, Digital Expo

Fabio Cacciatori is an Italian Entrepreneur with MBA in economic.
Founder and CEO of an ecosystem of 8 enterprises specialized in consulting and digital transformation with offices in Turin, Milan, Rome, Palermo, Moscow.
In this group of companies are working more than 60 managers (80 people all together) with different specializations (strategy, organization, finance, information systems, human resources, governance and control, company evaluation and M&A, …).
Through these companies since 1988, he has been leading complex management consulting projects for major Italian and International companies.
Since 2005 he has been operating in the virtual and augmented reality industry, first as CEO of the Virtual Reality & Multi Media Research Park and then as founder of Illogic (in Italy) and Intelligent Ideas (in the Russian Federation), with projects delivered on an international level (Europe, Russian Federation and USA).
Former he was Executive Chairman of Versace, Finpiemonte Holding, Bitronvideo, Board Executive Member of Film Investment Piedmont, De Tomaso Automobili, Dry Port of Alessandria and other assignments.
As a professional “hobby” he is one of the major film producer / investor in Italy with more than 30 productions done.

Alisa Prudnikova

Program Director, V-A-C Foundation, GES-2 House of Culture

Director for Regional Development of the ROSIZO’s National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Commissioner of the NEMOSKVA project, Commissioner and Artistic Director of the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Art historian and curator Alisa Prudnikova is one of Russia’s leading specialists in regional art and art industries. From 2005 to 2016, she headed the Urals branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts; during that time Ekaterinburg became one of Russia’s most important centres of modern art and was ranked in Russia and abroad as one of the country’s main creative centres. In 2016, Alisa Prudnikova became a board member at the International Biennial Association (IBA), which includes the world’s leading biennials. She is a member of the ICOM and AICA associations, and the two-times recipient of the Innovation national award in the field of contemporary art.

Anna Trapkova

General Director, Museum of Moscow

Mrs Trapkova was born on the 17th of July, 1980.
She graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in the specialty “Culturology”.
Later she received additional education at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
Since 2001, Mrs Trapkova held managerial positions in areas related to project activities and development at the Liberal Mission Scientific Foundation for Theoretical and Applied Research, the autonomous non-profit Institute of Regional Policy, and the limited liability company Regionalistika.
From 2012 to 2013, Mrs Trapkova worked at the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation as Deputy Director of the Department of State Support for Arts and Folk Art and Head of the Department of Modernization Programs. She administered projects of creating innovative cultural centres.
From 2013 to 2014, Mrs Trapkova held a senior position in the Project Management Department at the Rambler Internet Holding, LLC.
From 2014 to 2017 Mrs Trapkova worked as Deputy Director at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. In this position she supervised the development of the Museum Quarter.
From 2017 to 2019, Mrs Trapkova took the position of Deputy General Director for Reconstruction and Development at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Here, she supervised the reconstruction of the Hexagon pavilion (formerly the Mechanization pavilion) and the implementation of the project to create the Salyut Playground on the territory of the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure.
By an order of the Moscow Department of Culture dated July 02, 2019, Mrs Trapkova was appointed General Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of the City of Moscow “The Museum Association ‘The Museum of Moscow’”.
Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation awarded to her a commendation for organizing effective interactions with research institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Anton Finogenov

Deputy General Director, DOM.RF Foundation