Part of the manifestation is the exhibition IT’S ABOUT TIME in the Ferro, an imposing former Gas Storage Facility in Rotterdam’s western harbor area. On show in the nearby Keilepand will be the work of The Future Generation; this exhibition comprises a selection of graduation projects by students from the Netherlands and Belgium. Connecting the two exhibitions is a broad program. With guided tours, lectures, debates, and workshops for children and young people. This will make room for dialogue, knowledge building, and experimentation.
The title zooms in on time and speed as crucial factors in architecture and spatial design processes and appeals to the profession to work effectively to resolve socioecological urgencies.
Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is widely applicable
As a starting point, the biennale formulates three strategies that designers can follow. Those of the Activist, Accelerator, and the Ancestor. The Accelerator is efficient through the use of smart technology. The Activist works together, in the here and now, with local communities on small-scale bottom-up projects that have a great deal of social support in neighborhoods and districts. The Ancestor considers the consequences that design choices made now or in the past will have for future generations. The projects and practices that the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2022 gathers together in the name of these three strategies are ambitious. Often the result of long-term research, and widely applicable. They have been developed in close collaboration with local actors. They take the spatial aspect of socioecological issues as their starting point. And use time as a tool in the design process.
Photo: Guido Pijper
