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    TALK ON GENOCIDE MUSEUM DESIGN TO BE HELD AT MEMEAC

    By:Armenian Weekly
    Mon, Oct 31 2011

    NEW YORK-On Tues., Nov. 1, the Middle East and Middle Eastern American
    Center (MEMEAC) at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
    (CUNY) and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research
    (NAASR) will present "Traces: A Museum Without Artifacts-Design,
    Projection, and the Armenian Genocide."

    The featured speakers are Prof. Martin Bechthold and Allen Sayegh
    of Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD). Architect
    Nishan Kazazian will provide additional comments.

    In 2010, Bechthold and Sayegh led an advanced studio at the GSD
    entitled "Traces" that explored the design of a museum without
    artifacts through the study of immersive projection environments. The
    studio is based on the premise that design strategies must
    simultaneously consider (and design) both the projected content and
    the physical nature of the spatial environment. This timely topic has
    been previously explored on the scale of installations, but remains
    poorly understood when expanded to an entire museum.

    "Traces" challenged students to implement their design strategies
    in proposals for a museum environment dedicated to the Armenian
    Genocide in Yerevan. The possibility of realizing a new museum is
    under discussion in Armenia-hence providing a realistic context for
    the studio. Students traveled to the existing Genocide Museum and
    Institute in Yerevan during a field trip to Armenia to allow for
    in-depth on-site research and exploration.

    Bechthold is the co-director of the Master in Design Studies
    Program, director of the GSD Fabrication Labs, and director of the
    Interdepartmental GSD Technology Platform. Sayegh is an architect and
    the president and founder of Invivia, a Cambridge-based digital design
    firm. Kazazian has his own design, art, and architectural practice
    in New York, the A&A Design Group, specializing in the integration
    of art in architecture. He teaches at Parsons School of Design and
    at New York University.

    The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Room C201, the Graduate
    Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave., at 34th St. in New York.

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