2038, the German pavilion project for the Venice Architecture Biennale, which will be held from 23 May to 29 November 2020, was presented last Friday in Berlin.
2038 will tell the (hi)story of the past through the utopian narrative of a not too distant future, in which the great crises of our time, as well as the economic and environmental disasters, will be forgotten in order to live together "in a radical democracy".
The architects will have contributed to the realization of this new reality, because in 2020 "they had answers instead of coming up with more questions". As one of the curators, Christopher Roth, said during the press conference, 2038 "does not criticize current models that do not work, but wants to promote new ones".
A positive outlook on the near future cannot disregard the collaboration and interaction of different disciplinary fields. For this reason, a great number of international professionals will participate in the project, including the foremost expert in open technology and smart city Francesca Bria, the Taiwanese computer scientist Audrey Tang, the researcher in philosophy of technology Denis "Jaromil" Roio, the professor expert in urban ecology issues Sandra Bartoli and the Brazilian urban planner Raquel Rolnik.
This interdisciplinary group of architects, artists, ecologists, IT developers, researchers and writers was founded in 2019 by German architects Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert, Nikolaus Hirsch and Christopher Roth.
TheNewSerenity2038 from Christopher Roth on Vimeo.
2038 is a project that offers two different formats. The pavilion exhibition at the Giardini della Biennale will be set up with recycled materials, in collaboration with the Venetian group Rebiennale, and will include the projection of videos in which the participants in the project are asked to share their opinions and prediction on the future 2038.
The contents of the exhibition will be published in the Berlin-based multilingual newspaper Art of the Working Class. 60.000 copies of the newspaper will be distributed both for free to homeless and to people living in precarious conditions in Venice, who will be able to sell them to those who can afford it, and in the German Pavilion at Giardini della Biennale, where they can be purchased making a suggested donation.
The presentation took place in the Glaskiste room of the ExRotaprint building, one of the most debated models for urban development in Berlin.
- When:
- 23 May – 29 November 2020
- Where:
- Giardini della Biennale, Venice