IT’S ABOUT TIME
The 10th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam will take place from 22 September to 13 November 2022 in the port area of Rotterdam. The exhibition IT’S ABOUT TIME, curated by Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, and Peter Veenstra, and in collaboration with Theodora Gelali, will be presented in the Ferro, an imposing former natural gas holder in Rotterdam’s western harbor area.
In the nearby Keilepand, the exhibition FUTURE GENERATION will take place. Under the artistic direction of curators Hanna Prinssen and Lindsey van de Wetering and in cooperation with Maria Christopoulou, a selection of graduation projects by students from the Netherlands and Belgium will be on display.
The two exhibitions make room for dialogue, knowledge acquisition, and experimentation and offer an extensive program of guided tours, lectures, and debates, as well as workshops for children and young people. Work sessions will be held in a transition arena. These will include designers involved in ongoing research into the transformation of cities such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Various visions of the future of the Netherlands will converge here and be discussed.
Title
The title IT’S ABOUT TIME alludes to the increasing pressure of time: in order to counteract the consequences of climate change, action must be taken quickly. The title also focuses on time and speed as crucial factors in the design process of architecture and spatial design. In this way, the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam draws attention to social themes: IT’S ABOUT TIME calls on professionala to work effectively on urgent socioecological issues.
Participants
The exhibition features work by 2001, 2050+, 51N4E, AgwA, Anastasia Egger, Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation + Miguel Mesa del Castillo, Anupama Kundoo Architects, AREP, Beka & Lemoine, College of Government Advisors, Encore Heureux, EPFL - Habitat Research Center, Ester van de Wiel, Philippe Rizzotti Architecte with ETH Zurich Chair of Sustainable Construction and Pavillon de l'Arsenal, FAST - Malkit Shoshan, FLUX, H+N+S, INCURSIONES, Irene Feria Prados - Frieder Vogler - Rik de Brouwer, gens, Jan Rothuizen, Janna Bystrykh, Joep van Lieshout, Lukasz Stanek & Michael, Dziwornu, McHarg Center - Richard Weller, MLA+, Monadnock, MVRDV, noAarchitecten, OOZE, Openfabric, Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving, Space and Matter, Studio Joost Grootens, Studio Marco Vermeulen, Studio Ossidiana, Embassy of the North Sea, Superuse Studios, Ten Studio, TU Delft - Delta Urbanism, Sarah Calitz & Isabel Recubenis Sanchis, Turenscape - Kongjian Yu, Université du Luxembourg, Weronika Uyar, and many others.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Prof. Derk Loorbach, professor of Socioeconomic Transitions, director of DRIFT, and principal investigator of the Design, Impact, Transition (DIT) platform at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Peter Veenstra, co-founder of LOLA Landscape Architects (with Cees van der Veeken and Eric-Jan Pleijster)
PASZA Platform for Architectural Research, co-founded by Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka, senior lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and visiting lecturer at the Berlage, Delft University of Technology and ETH Zurich, and Dr. Ir. Véronique Patteeuw, lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage Lille, visiting lecturer at KU Leuven and EPFL Lausanne and scientific editor of OASE.
Website: https://www.architecturebiennalerotterdam2022.nl/nl
ABOUT THE IABR
The design power of architecture is essential for tackling the major challenges of our time, such as the energy transition, water management, and climate adaptation.
The Architecture Biennale Rotterdam aims to contribute to the transition to a sustainable future by connecting parties to the agenda of transition in spatial design, positioning the discipline of spatial design, bringing together design strengths and parties around spatial challenges, and by inspiring and offering action perspectives by imagining promising solutions.
