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Jul 2023
55m 38s

86: Asli Çiçek

The Architecture Foundation
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Asli Çiçek is an Architect and writer based in Brussels, whose work focuses on scenography and exhibition design.


"Culture is not a luxury. I don’t like populistic discussions about what culture should be or how history should be flattened to a quick communication. I think it’s fantastic to not understand everything at once, to keep the fascination for history and culture alive in museums […] 


"There is no shame in having culture. If there’s a debate I silently follow, it’s that there is a necessity for culture in society – not only as an egalitarian concept, but as an educational concept. That is something I try to stand for."


Scaffold is an Architecture Foundation production, hosted by Matthew Blunderfield.


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