City of Chicago Cultural Plan
The City of Chicago has launched a new initiative to develop the 2012 Chicago
Cultural Plan. The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events and
Lord Cultural Resources are seeking input from Chicago's residents, cultural
organizations, neighborhood groups as well as the private and philanthropic
sectors.
Welcome
Lord Cultural Resources is a global professional practice dedicated to creating cultural capital worldwide.
Lord Cultural Resources offers a comprehensive range of integrated services including master planning, business planning, feasibility studies, cultural and heritage tourism planning, strategic planning, facility planning, functional programming, architect selection, interpretive planning, exhibition design, project management, training and recruitment.
Our cultural projects include museums, mixed-use developments, cultural centres, art galleries, science centres, world expositions, visitor centres, heritage sites, festivals, theatres, archives, libraries and gardens. Our clients are in all sectors including private and public corporations, foundations, governments and non-profit institutions.
City of Chicago Launches 2012 Cultural Plan Initiative with Lord Cultural Resources as Lead Consultant
The City of Chicago has launched a new initiative to develop the 2012 Chicago Cultural Plan. The plan will create a framework to guide Chicago's future cultural and economic growth as the centerpiece for elevating the City as a global destination for creativity, innovation and excellence. The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events along with partner Lord Cultural Resources is seeking input from Chicago's residents, cultural organizations, neighborhood groups as well as the private and philanthropic sectors. The Plan will set out the blueprint for a vital and leading edge cultural Chicago.
Beyond the Building – Museums in the 21st Century Exhibit
Photo: National Museum of African Amercian History and Culture, Washington, DC. Image courtesy of Freelon Adjaye Bond / SmithGroup.
"Beyond the Building: Museums in the 21st Century" is the third in a trilogy of traveling exhibitions that explores museums and the built form. As cities witness exponential growth both in size and number, cultural change has never been greater, including the growth and transformation of museums.
This exhibition, curated by Suzanne Greub of Art Centre Basel with Associate Curator Gail Lord, goes further than just architecture and individual museums. It examines museum projects as the starting point for the re-use and revitalization of former industrial zones. No longer are museums conceived as stand-alone buildings but rather as clusters, campuses or key elements of cultural districts.
Eighteen museum projects from around the world will be featured in the exhibition and will include large scale models, drawings, photographs and multimedia presentations. "Beyond the Building: Museums in the 21st Century" is scheduled to travel from September 2012 onwards through to 2017.
Photo: The ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. Image courtesy of Moshe Safdie and Associates.
Maki & Associates with Opolis Selected for the new Bihar Museum in Patna, India
Lord Cultural Resources will be working along with the Department of Art, Culture and Youth (DACY) and the Building Construction Department (BCD) of the Government of Bihar in developing a new iconic museum in Patna, the capital of the State of Bihar, India. We are also the master planning consultants for this project. Patna stands on the site of Paliputra , which was famous as the capital of India’s ancient Magadhan Empire. The new Bihar Museum will focus on the contributions made during the Magdhan Empire and throughout the historic period to the evolution of history and civilization in Bihar, the Indian subcontinent and throughout Asia.
Image from the collection of the existing Patna Museum: Tara. Photo by Lord Cultural Resources.
This project is published on www.e-architect.co.uk.
The architecture selection process undertaken by the BCD on behalf of DACY and directed by Lord Cultural Resources has produced a winner for designing the new Bihar Museum in Patna - Maki & Associates of Japan along with their partner Opolis. The winner was selected from design proposals presented by five world-leading shortlisted architectural firms each with their Indian architect partner firms.
Click here for the press release and more details on the winning design.
Winning design by Maki and Associates of Japan and their Indian partner Opolis. Photo by Maki & Associates + Opolis.
Manual of Museum Planning
Edited by Barry Lord, Gail Dexter Lord, and Lindsay Martin
As museums have taken on more complex roles in their communities and the number of museum stakeholders has increased to include a greater array of people, effective museum planning is more important than ever. The Manual of Museum Planning has become the definitive text for museum professionals, trustees, architects, and others who are concerned with the planning, design, construction, renovation, or expansion of a public gallery or museum.
Events
Gail Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, will be a Plenary Speaker at the Inclusive Museum Conference, on August 2-5, 2012, at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.
Ted Silberberg, Senior Principal, Market and Financial Planning, Lord Cultural Resources, is extensively quoted in an article by Alexandra Butler on the balancing act of cultural institutions in the current 5-6, 2012 issue of the Muse magazine of the CMA.
Lindsay Martin, Senior Consultant, Lord Cultural Resources, facilitated a workshop on developing social media strategies "Creating Your Social Media Strategy: A Workshop" at the Museums and the Web Conference in San Diego, CA, April 11-14, 2012.
Gail Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, talked about Chicago Cultural Plan on March 23, 2012 in Chicago. Gail's talk, "Sustaining Chicago as a Premium City" discussed Chicago's plan in relation to the international planning work our firm has implemented in the past 30 years.
Barry Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, was quoted in an article on two new museums in Patna, India, in the latest issue of the Muse magazine (Jan-Feb, 2012) published by the Canadian Museum Association. Click here for the English and French versions of the article.
Barry Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, was a member of the panel, "Institution-Building: New Perspectives, Common Practices, and Future Goals" at the Art & Patronage Summit on January 12, 2012 at the British Museum, London.
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