Jan Gehl satelite exhibition during Tallinn Architecture Biennale

Jan Gehl exhibition

As a satellite event of Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB), the exhibition Changing Mindsets focuses on the seminal work of Jan Gehl as theorist, researcher and writer of human behavior in an urban context. It showcases Gehl’s ideas concerning the need for (good) planners of city development to take into account the people that occupies the city. According to Gehl the ideal is to think about creating possibilities for social life and encounters, instead of just having economics or architectural statements in mind.

Changing Mindsets was made in connection with the celebration of Jan Gehl’s 80th birthday, in 2016 by Danish Cultural Center in Beijing. Previously the exhibition has been shown in China and earlier this year it moved to Riga. At the opening in Tallinn on 10/10, Jan Gehl will attend.

Organisers and curators are: Danish Cultural Institute in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Embassy of Denmark in Estonia, TAB, Erik Messerschmidt (Danish Cultural Center in China) and architect Liva Kreislere (LV).

Tallinn Architectural Biennale

TAB tries to provide genuine answers to questions about urban development now and in the future. Every two years since 2011 the biennale has taken place, each year one or more themes receive extra attention. This year the focus is on the city as a space for different coexisting dynamical systems and on how emerging technologies and materials will transform the traditional cityscapes. Bio- and information technology presents architects and others involved with urban development with revolutionizing new ways to make organic buildings, that lives, breathes, and cleans air and water! These possibilities are explored during TAB 2017.

Read more about Changing Mindsets: https://www.danishculture.com/changing-mindsets-jan-gehl-lecture/

And about TAB2017: http://2017.tab.ee/