Osumi Island

Osumi ISLAND
ARTA DOLLANI
After graduating in Architecture and Urban
Planning at the Polytechnic University of
Krakow in Poland, she worked for a long period
of time in the Municipality of Tirana as urban
planner, developing parallely and hereinafter
the academic experience in teaching at the
Faculty of Architecture. Co-designer of a
considerable number of urban studies, urban
requalification projects of public spaces, she
also owns qualitative experience in design and
implementation. Currently directs the Institute of
Cultural Monuments, it is co-author of numerous
projects on the restoration of monuments, and
revitalization of historical and museum centers.
The initiator of several partnerships with the
Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of History and
Philology and non-governmental organizations
participating in the IPA projects in the region. The
Institute she leads is the focal point of UNESCO
for the declared World Heritage properties
in the territory of Albania and maintains
regular contacts with European institutions on
exchanging parallel and successful experiences.
Participant and contributor in a series of
international conferences and exhibitions on
preservation, revitalization and management
of cultural assets. Jury member in several
international architectural competitions.
LORENZA BARONCELLI
Lorenza Baroncelli is an architect, researcher and
curator. She is Associate for Special Projects at
the Serpentine Galleries in London, where she
is a key coordinator of the Pavilions program.
She is also Councillor for Urban Regeneration
and International Projects for the city of Mantua
as well as Consultant for Urban and Cultural
Strategies to Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania
She has been scientific director of “15 Rooms”,
exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (codirector
of the Serpentine Gallery,London) and
Klaus Biesenbach (director of MoMA PS1),
designed by Herzog & de Meuron and currently
opens at the Long Museum West Bund in
Shanghai. In January 2015 she founded, together
with Joseph Grima, Antonio Ottomanelli, Marco
Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual, White Hole Gallery,
a remotely-controlled micro-gallery in Genoa
(Italy), combining strategies of artistic practice
and journalism to investigate, document and
debate the forces — visible and invisible — that
shape society and the landscape. In 2014 she
has been scientific director of the Swiss pavilion
curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Venice
Architecture Biennale 2014 including artists
and architects such as Herzog and de Meuron,
Atelier Bow-Wow, Elizabeth Diller, Tino Sehgal,
Olafur Eliasson, Philippe Parreno, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foester, Carsten Holler, Ko Joeng-a
and Liam Gillick.
ARBEN BIÇOKU
Is an architect with 30 years of experience,
with his own practice, Landro, based in Tirana,
Albania. He is a practicing designer, builder, as
well as a lecturer at several universities, like
the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning
of the Polytechnic University of Tirana, POLIS
University, etc. He has served as an adviser
of Territorial Planning Department, in the
Municipality of Tirana, for three terms, and for
the District of Tirana, for one term.
He has written multiple professional publications,
on town planning and architecture problems, in
professional journals and the daily media. Arben
is the author of several projects in the city of
Berat. Here to mention the reconstruction
and revitalization of Berat in 2010, and many
restoration projects for private dwellings in
this city. Arben Biçoku has participated in
several international juries of urban planning or
architecture competitions.
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