FUTURE ARCHITECTURE ROOMS

Year: 2021
Location: Online
Client: Future Architecture Platform
Status: Realised digital project
Curator: Anastassia Smirnova-Berlin

The Future Architecture Rooms project is an attempt to build an environment at the intersection of the real and the immaterial.

Twenty-seven institutions, the members of the Future Architecture platform, have constructed a context for exchange, knowledge transfer, discussion, education, and presentation. As a community, the members have created a space that can respond to the effects of the pandemic, without being disrupted by them. It does not represent a total exodus into the digital sphere, but it is a parallel reality that allows this pan-European network to develop projects productively beyond its habitual formats of conferences and workshops. 

Here, each member of the platform has its own room which serves as a form of online residency. Each institution occupies an equal space, regardless of its real-world size, history or budget. In the rooms the curators and producers, directors and managers as well as their collaborating architects, critics and publics are free to communicate as they wish. 

Every room featured a short video about the members’ interests, methods, their teams, but also about buildings and places in which they worked. These videos allowed us to peek behind the scenes of some of the most interesting critical projects in Europe; to understand the people and spaces behind their institutional logos.

 

Interview with the Curator

 

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