Imaginations Cross Cultures

Imaginations Cross Cultures outset is to foster greater cross cultural understanding between young people through creative co-creations across professions, ages and national borders. Activities are focused on making full scale creative responses to how a built environment can best reflect and foster a strong local cultural identity and better civil society. Their Summer Schools are catalysts for change where thoughts and ideas are shared and shaped by the future generation. Their methodology is based on teams, hands-on working, and encouraging open-ended discussions to spark curiosity and grow ideas which can be harvested and owned by local communities.

So far we have conducted summer schools as far spread as Asia, Middle East and Europe involving over 15 academic institutions from London to Rio, Beirut to Seoul. More than 200 students, educators and alumni’s of more than 30 nationalities have joined our schools, and even more have visited the resulting exhibitions. Imaginations Cross Cultures grew out of volunteering work since 2008 and was formally registered as a non-profit limited by guarantee company in 2016.

Co-Creators:

  • Aalborg University, Dept. of Architecture and Design, Aalborg

  • Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Faculty of Architecture, Beirut

  • American University Beirut, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Beirut

  • American University Cairo, Cairo

  • Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London

  • CKU / DCCD, Danish Centre for Culture and Development

  • Cultural Projects, London

  • Damascus University, Faculty of Architecture, Damascus

  • Danish Architects’ Association, Denmark

  • Danish Arts Council, Denmark

  • Dankook University, Seoul

  • FAU-UFRJ, Rio

  • GAIA-Heritage, Beirut

  • Galmstrup Architects, London

  • University of Genoa, Genoa

  • Hanyang University ERICA, Seoul

  • Hongik University, Seoul

  • Henning Larsen Architects, Levant & Copenhagen

  • TU Berlin University, Landscape architecture and Open Space Planning, Berlin

  • Lebanese American University, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape, Beirut

  • Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul

  • Museum Skanderborg, Denmark

  • Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen

  • SCU Skanderborg, Denmark

  • UIA Copenhagen 2023

  • UIA International Union of Architects

  • UIA Rio 2020

  • UIA Seoul 2017

  • University of Seoul

  • USC 10, Skanderborg

  • VGTU, Vilnius

  • Yonsei University, Seoul