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Luma Days #3
As every spring since 2017, Luma Days offer a program of public education on art, society, heritage and culture for all audiences.

The world is going through a zone of turbulence. Faced with the meander of global structures of governance and virtual companies, mankind seems to have become powerless, even redundant. The urgency to build a future connected to our planet is often met with isolated solutions. At a time of global transformation, and despite the capacity to instantly mobilize the individual, the concepts of “living together” and “working together” often seem out of reach. Are they just utopian ideals? We believe that with collective action, solutions can emerge. For this reason, the third edition of Luma Days explores new concepts of interdependence in many forms.

The first Declaration of Interdependence was written in 1944 by philosopher and historian Will Durant, as a manifesto that claimed the principles of equality and freedom as vectors of harmony. Over time, the notions of ethics and ecology have nourished the topic and extended its scope; as interdependence is not limited to the relations of human to human but of human to the world, taking into account the direct impact of the human imprint on the environment.

The classroom is the first place of initiation to “living together” and symbolizes the relationship of interdependence. Education has been one of the building blocks of the Core Group’s construction creation of Luma in Arles since 2007. Therefore, it will be central to Luma Days #3, looking beyond proven models. From the encyclopedic museum to the laboratory, to the workshop, or the academy, can a cultural institution become a place of experimentation and curiosity, open to the search for knowledge? This is precisely the starting point and the scope of the exhibition A School of Schools: Design as Learning, originally produced for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial (2018) and Z33. Curated by Jan Boelen, Artistic Director- Atelier Luma, the exhibition is also the setting in which the conferences and workshops take place this year.

Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and Luma have engaged in a three-year research partnership devoted to the landscape and the ecosystem of the Camargue and the Mediterranean region. During Luma Days, the first findings are presented as an installation, Regenerative Empathy, by a team of students and Harvard Professors who directed this study.

In the same spirit – on display at the Grande Halle – there is an exhibit of the production of the Luma’s Educational Program carried out during the 2018-2019 school year with more than 300 students from Arles participating. Two primary schools near the Parc des Ateliers, gathered in an orchestral ensemble – organized by the Music Conservatory of Pays d’Arles under the artistic direction of jazz musician Raphael Imbert – will give their first public recital. The week will also be punctuated by local and regional contributions; heritage conferences organized by the SIPPA, Symposium international des professionnels du patrimoine à Arles, or the introduction of two professional days on interdependence and business, organized by the UPE13, l’Union pour les entreprises des Bouches-du-Rhône and on interdependence and local urban development with the ACCM, Communauté d’Agglomération Arles Crau Camargue Montagnette.

This third edition of Luma Days kicks off our summer program. Enclosure is a co-production of Luma with Park Armory New York, presenting for the first time in France the work of Rachel Rose, a young American artist. Shown on a specially developed holographic screen, Enclosure is a heist story about survival in the seventeenth-century agrarian English landscape.

One year before the full opening of Luma Arles, the Parc des Ateliers stays a place of creative convergence that allows everyone to express, act and contribute to issues of common concern.
Be it in a town of human scale like Arles or globally, Luma’s fundamental values to support creative action, the environment, human rights and education, echo the global concerns of interdependence.

I would like to thank all the participants and experts who came together, locally and from around the world to meet and collaborate with us in Arles.

Maja Hoffmann
Founder and President, Luma and Luma Arles

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From Wednesday to Saturday: 10am-7pm
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45, chemin des Minimes
13200 Arles (France)

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