Month-long event celebrates architecture

Macau Architecture Promenade” (MAP) is the newest project from the nonprofit cultural organization Babel. With October being the International Month of Architecture, the organization is holding a series of activities from October 10 to November 1.
According to a press release issued by the organizers, MAP aims to be a month-long celebration of architecture and its relationship with other art in the public space. MAP will also celebrate urban culture, experimentation and innovative practices in order to inspire new ways of thinking about the city.
The event’s program includes three exhibitions and shows, three talks and book presentations, six film screenings, as well as more than ten workshop sessions, and four urban interventions in public space.
MAP offers access to the architecture and heritage of Macau through guided visits to selected buildings and old quarters, which are to be conducted by specialists of architecture, heritage, city development, local festivities and religious architecture.
The educational aspect and learning opportunities for people of all ages is one of the main goals of MAP, which led Babel to contact more than twenty organizations – from universities and kindergartens, to museums and cultural associations, in both private and public sectors – in the hope of collaborating so that this program could succeed.
Some of the biggest highlights of the program include: a book launch by local architect Tiago Quadros for his work “Macau Sessions: Dialogues on Architecture and Society”; an exhibition titled “Treeplets” by João Ó and Rita Machado, to be held at the University of Macau lakeside; and “playLAND”, an intervention in the public space to take place at the Macau Science Centre.
MAP will kick-off on October 10 in the Albergue SCM at 6 p.m.