Findings from the Present – A Rolling Conversation in the Exhibition “The Heritage of the Future“

Architecture and the built environment carry the stories and beliefs of the time they were created. They represent culture, political conflicts, power structures, and technological, economic, and ecological conditions. In the exhibition “The Heritage of the Future,” we ask not what the future will look like, but how our present will be read from within it and what we leave for generations to come. What role does architecture play not only as a physical force shaping the built environment, but also as a cultural, political, and social mechanism that influences how we imagine the future, interpret the past, and experience the present? 

For the exhibition opening, we will hold rolling conversations on its four central themes, every hour on the hour. This is an invitation to reflect on the present from a future perspective – to imagine. Not to escape reality, but to challenge what is taken for granted. When the present is viewed as a future archaeological layer, even the everyday – the square, the sign, the station, the street, and concepts like technology and progress – become charged with new meaning. What of all this will be preserved, what will disappear, and what will one day tell our story?

The conversation will be held in English, in the presence of the exhibiting architects and the exhibition’s curators, Friedrich von Borries and Sabrina Cegla.

10:00 – Infrastructures of Modernity

 With: Oren Eldar, Shira Gleitman, Elad Horn, Edith Kofsky, Yasmina Nusseibeh, Hila Shemer, Els Verbakel 

11:00 – Nightmares of War

 With: Tula Amir, Yonatan Cohen, Sharon Golan, Jeremie Hoffmann, Paul Kearns 

12:00 – National Branding vs. Pre-national Identity

With: Yuval Avraham, Christina Eidenson, Ifat Finkelman, Shira Levy Benyemini, Vika Libman, Lev Pavlov, Deborah Pinto Fadeda, Ori Scialom, Aiman Tabony 

13:00 – Nature or Culture

With: Or Aleksandrowicz, Ruth Avraham, Adva Matar, Lou Moria, Yael Moria