The monthly Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Colloquium on Israel Studies provides an interdisciplinary space for presentation and discussion of academic papers, and a forum for developing research and teaching.
Here, alongside the eye-boggling view upwards, there is a coffee bar named the Hardback Cafe, not to mention spaces for presentations and a big cube of a gallery.
Upon arrival I collected my credentials and explored the Pavilion area where countries from around the world had set up exhibition spaces for presentations and discussions.
Each project room doubles as base camp for work sessions with our clients: Rather than break the space down for presentations, we invite our clients to participate in the design process.
The old exhibition room has been transformed into a project space for smaller presentations, events, activities and artistic experimentation.
That may be because they cause distractions for all the employees in adjacent, low-partitioned workstations or because they have inadequate wall space for making presentations.
In the run-up to the event, we shall be meeting on an electronic forum, an informal space for exchanging presentations, experiences and views.
One of the great virtues of art is that it opens a space for the presentation of views that go against the grain of ordinary and accepted beliefs.
"In this country, there is almost no option for the other side, no space for the presentation of the Palestinian point of view in a work of art," Adams says.
Diana Mogollón, the general manager of Mun2, and Joe Bernard, the channel's senior vice president for sales, spoke to a small group of reporters in a warehouse space for the presentation, known as an upfront, where networks introduce their new offerings to advertisers and media buyers.
