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"The first major #museum exhibition to survey the relationship between #architecture and the environmental movement in the United States, Emerging Ecologies brings together a wide range of work—from archival drawings to videos to architectural models—spanning six decades." This exciting #exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art this weekend connects the environmental movement, which gained a huge following during the first #EarthDay in the 1970's, to the effort to make architecture more sustainable. I think that a lot of extremely interesting and engaging #MuseumEducation programs including introducing architecture as #art, examining architectural materials and their impact, and how #SocialJustice movements affect #artists and their art. What programs can you think of? Please share them in the comments below. https://lnkd.in/eQwwr-QN

As the cannons roar, the art refuses to keep silent. Ukrainian architects are at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition — Biennale Architettura 2023 presenting their Pavilion dubbed Before the Future. Over the last 8 years, Ukraine wasn’t represented at the Venice Architecture Biennale. However, this year Ukrainian art and especially architecture have got their chance to shine. Our country’s upcoming victory will provide momentum not only for its physical rebuilding but for restoration in a broader sense. Artists and architects now must start making joint statements about the future of Ukraine, shaping the vision of its place in the global context. For Ukraine’s National Pavilion, we developed a visual identity that’s all about building the links between architects, designers, artists, and writers, which were damaged and distorted as of late, slowing down Ukrainian architecture’s development. Therefore, it was important for the Pavilion’s visual style to reflect all the interlocks and interactions to illustrate the opportunity for anyone making a joint statement to express their opinion and be heard. As our enemy destroys, we keep building: connections, ideas, and our future.

Time Capsule Moment: In Feb 2005, 19 year-old me 👦 had only just begun studying Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, when my dad decided to take me on a trip to NYC ✈ As it so happened, MoMA had an exhibition about the rising profession of Landscape Architecture, aptly named "Groundswell". The exhibition showcased the "surge of creativity and critical debate in the design of public spaces". It certainly felt good to be taking the first steps into a profession that was taking off 🌱 I recently found out you can revisit the exhibition (see link) 📂 Looking back, a lot of the showcased projects were very architectural or sculptural, with even a temporary faux-garden on the roof made of lightweight recycled materials ♻ At the time, I remember thinking it was great to see the discipline aligning with how architectural studios were approaching projects ✒ The reason I find this now so fascinating, is because just a couple of months ago, landscape architecture received STEM-certification 🏆 in recognition not only of the disciplines pivotal role around the globe 🌍 but also it's close relationship to science and technology 👩🔬 Over nearly 20 years, the discipline went from finding it's creative flair 🎨 to taking on global challenges such a extreme weather, sustainability, public health, and biodiversity. The timing of finding this nostalgic exhibition alongside gaining this STEM-certification, really hit me hard. Having worked for over a decade on resiliency and climate adaptation projects, I have been surrounded by brilliant engineers and innovative PhD students, who always challenged me to build real, measurable nature-based solutions 🏞 I really feel an integral part of that recognition. I wonder what is next for the profession. I can't wait to find out. #ramboll #resiliency #climateadaptation #naturebasedsolutions #landscapearchitecture

Spatial Metaphor as Methodology Kui Yuan Gallery @kuiyuangallery, Guangzhou, China 10 Jun - 9 JUL 2023 Part I | The Architectonic Blueprint of Art Bound by certain rules and conventions rooted in power and status, capital and roles, and constrained by the physical limitations and material shackles in a narrow sense, contemporary architecture within the local context, situated in the so-called post-radical era, has long seemed to be passively trapped in a blind, stagnant, and even silent state, except for the focus on functional micro-improvements, unable to establish structural creative connections with other fields, particularly the discipline of art. However, if one traces back the ideological roots of architecture as a macro-discipline, speaking of certain cross-disciplinary creative ideology that regards it as a powerful structure within the framework of art, then architecture itself should possess its unique potential as an enormous, sophisticated, ever-changing vessel, not confined to physical space, incorporating the methodologies concerning representation and even integration of various fields and disciplines. #JXYStudio #culture #art #architecture #exhibition https://lnkd.in/g2Cj6cnZ

Article by myself and Maarit Mäkelä published in the Research in Arts and Education Journal. "This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life." https://lnkd.in/dq9VY64N

NCNTP is a three-year project that started in 2022 and will continue until 2025. Bringing together urbanists, architects, and space designers from seven European countries, New Temporality originally developed around the large-scale topic of architecture during crises and unstable times.  New Temporality is a European project, a consortium of 8 partner organisations, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, together with the APSS Institute in Podgorica, the Barleti University in Tirana, the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, the Berlin Coopera, the Pavilion of Culture Kyiv, the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau in Dresden and the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, which aims to strengthen architectural culture across the continent, documenting, researching and valuing common temporary spaces and questioning the notions of permanence and stability associated with the spatial dimension of architecture. *The New Cross-National Temporality project NCNTP is a three-year joint programme among cultural entities and academic institutions from seven countries financed by @creative.eu #NewTemporality #Coopera

The final week to visit the Dutch Pavilion at Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia! On show until November 26: Plumbing the System, curated by architect and researcher Jan Jongert of Superuse Studios. In line with the overarching theme, Laboratory of the Future, of this year's Biennale, the Dutch Pavilion is a testing ground for future-oriented, regenerative and circular design. On the one hand, the pavilion presents The Waterworks of Money, a series of drawings by architect Carlijn Kingma that intricately translates our complex economic framework into a spatial environment using water as a metaphor. By mapping the flows of money through society, Kingma illustrates the workings of our financial system and its deeply embedded mechanisms that can both hinder and enable change. Zooming in, the pavilion then seeks to test a hypothesis of systemic change by implementing change on itself. Continuing with the metaphor of water, Jan Jongert proposed to integrate a low-tech water retention system in the building. Asking the question whether cultural events can do more than simply discuss, debate and raise awareness of the urgent issues of our times, the pavilion documents and presents the process (and, inevitably, the hurdles and challenges) of undertaking this seemingly straightforward task. What is learned can act as a guide for future change.⁠ Read more via this link: https://lnkd.in/esJyUuQR -⁠ Photos: Giulia Virgara⁠

Proud to be a part of 'Nature of Hope'. Teaming up with Ester van de Wiel, we collaborate with both human and non-human Delta Workers. The call for eco-empathy is a hopeful one, for it is in our nature. In order for us to reconnect with the one world we all inhabit and understand its intricate entanglements, we must become active participants in its becoming and learn to see, feel and be in interrelation. It is time for change from within, bottom up and top down.  -zee -plaats -werk -land (-sea -place -work -land) challenges the bureaucratic order of excel sheets, the permit apparatus, the national governments, and calls into being the Agency for Eco-Social Affairs. You have been called to Ecosystem Service Duty!

Selected Works We are pleased to present a small series of selected master's theses and student projects that have been created with our support in recent years. The works not only demonstrate very convincingly the high standard of many works by architecture students at the UdK Berlin, but also provide a good example of the diversity and innovative power that can arise from the overlapping of creative and academic practice. At the same time, they are also an example of a departure and rethinking in architecture towards a performance-orientated and knowledge-based design of people's physical spaces and a sustainable architectural practice that is fit for the future. After the initial presentation of "Rethinking Affluent Buildings" we would like to proceed with the work of Jan Winkens: "Noise is Beautiful" Jans master’s thesis, combines his two personal fields of interest – architecture and noise music. In his search for unusual sounds in the noise of the metropolis, he focussed on the area around the Messe-Nord/ICC, supposedly the loudest place in Berlin. For Jan, this is a place that generates a great deal of tension between excessive demands and enthusiasm, melancholy and euphoria. Based on the research on site, the project attempts to give the noise of the city itself a spatial expression. To this end, the on-site recordings are alienated and placed in a new context. The experimental search for new forms of representation and notations of noises and sounds became an essential aspect of the work. #noise; #architecture; #field_conditions; #new_notations_of_noise; #sound_of_metropolis https://lnkd.in/d3RK9xmX https://lnkd.in/dxKh9cig

Proud to be a part of 'Nature of Hope'. Teaming up with Joost Adriaanse, we collaborate with both human and non-human Delta Workers. The call for eco-empathy is a hopeful one, for it is in our nature. In order for us to reconnect with the one world we all inhabit and understand its intricate entanglements, we must become active participants in its becoming and learn to see, feel and be in interrelation. It is time for change from within, bottom up and top down.  -zee -plaats -werk -land (-sea -place -work -land) challenges the bureaucratic order of excel sheets, the permit apparatus, the national governments, and calls into being the Agency for Eco-Social Affairs. You have been called to Ecosystem Service Duty!