Provenance
Projected

Architecture Past and Future in the Era of Circularity

Provenance Projected and Concrete Imaginations, Oulu

Symposium
Aug 31—Sep 1, 2026

Symposium VI

MONDAY August 31, Design Center Proto 18:00

Welcome: Mari Lending, director Provenance Projected/AHO

Adam Lowe, director Factum, Madrid, Factum in Finland

Valentino Tignanelli, Project manager Aaltosiilo Ry, Bauhaus Go North: Meri-Toppila

Tapani Mustonen, director Mustonen Architects Studio Helsinki, Aalto restorations

Pia Krogius, architect, City of Oulu, Aalto and his legacy in Oulu

Petri Sirviö, Screaming Men, Oulu, The Screaming Man, Talks

Wine reception

TUESDAY September 1, AaltoSiilo 15-19:30

[morning: tour of buildings/city for group&guests]

Welcome: Mari Lending

Repurposing silos for art, chaired by Charles Saumarez Smith

Adrian Forty, Concrete colossi

Uwe Fleckner, Storing knowledge: Aby Warburg’s cosmic transformation of the Hamburg Water Tower

Magnus Wåge, Mestres Wåge Arquitectes, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand

Charlotte Skene Catling, Skene Catling de la Peña, AaltoKioski/Oulu Protoco

Break: Charlotte Skene Catling/Valentino Tignanelli: Tour of the AaltoSiilo

Projecting Provenance, chaired by Mari Lending & Erik Langdalen

Caroline Ugelstad, director of Collections Munch, Oslo, Museum provenance (Munch, Historien)

Carson Chan, director Design&Architecture Museum, Helsinki, Projecting and collecting architecture

Kiira Miesmaa, director Kiasma, Helsinki, Is the role of the museum to own or to enable?

Adam Lowe, director Factum Foundation/Arte: The provenance of facsimiles

Drinks reception in the silo followed by a screening of Marina Abramovic’s film the Seven Deaths of Maria Callas (Abramovic exhibition opening in the silo that weekend)

Photo: Lauri Klemola