Virtual Design Festival teams up with Lisbon's MAAT museum to present its collaboration with architect SO-IL. First, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu of SO-IL explain their Beeline installation in this exclusive video.

We are also featuring two more videos exploring the work of SO-IL and giving a sneak peek of the "Currents – Temporary Architectures by SO-IL" exhibition at MAAT that accompanies Beeline.

In this video filmed in New York by Tom Piper, Idenburg and Liu explain how the collaboration with MAAT came about.

"The MAAT museum is beautifully located on the waterfront and has a very interesting roof which attracts a lot of people, mostly to just see the view," says Idenburg in the video.

"But the inside is quite closed and quite dark. So as soon as we got there, we realized we needed to open up this space. How can we bring actually the public really into the building itself, not just, you know, on top and around it?"

The temporary Beeline installation and the Currents exhibition were both due to open on 27 March as the first phase of MAAT executive director Beatrice Leanza's new programme for the museum, which she joined last year.

However, the projects remain shuttered until further notice due to coronavirus, so MAAT has instead teamed up with VDF for a virtual launch.

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