Seventh Lisbon Architecture Triennale

The challenges of the technological intensification of human activity is also a challenge of inequality and collaboration. How to imagine a new form of sharing technologies, away from notions of free access protocols? How to share the shaping of technological futures?

Alistair Hudson is the Scientific-Artistic Chairman of the ZKM | Karlsruhe since April 1, 2023. He succeeds Peter Weibel, who had headed the institution since 1999. Hudson is a curator and museum director with broad-ranging international experience. He combines contemporary curatorial expertise with a profound knowledge of the relationship between art, technology and society. From 2018 to 2022 he served as director of two museums in Manchester: the Manchester Art Gallery and The Whitworth. The latter is the art museum of the University of Manchester, where he was also Professor of Useful Art. Alistair Hudson’s concept of a “useful museum” envisions artistic institutions and cultural institutions as centres of social responsibility and transformation. He believes that they should be run artistically, as works in progress in their own right. Together with the artist Tania Bruguera he heads the Asociación de Arte Útil, a growing international network which collaborates with other institutions such as the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, INSTAR in Havana and YBCA San Francisco.