The 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam will take place from 24 September 2009 through 10 January 2010.
The theme 'Open City: Designing Coexistence' is being developed by curator Kees Christiaanse and his team at the ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
Open City: Designing Coexistence
How can architects and urbanists stimulate social, cultural, and economic coexistence?
Open City: Designing Coexistence, the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, is exploring, documenting, and designing strategies for coexistence in today's cities.
The Open City is an urban condition that enables diverse groups to interact peacefully, creatively, and productively. But the Open City is not a 'soup'; it is a finely tuned integration machine that encourages distinct communities and groups to settle and establish the dynamic relationships that we call urbanity.
Today, the very diversity that once activated our cities threatens to dissolve them: cities are turning into archipelagos; public infrastructures are splintering; and public spaces are being left to wither. Differences between rich and poor, conflicts among ethnic groups, and the proliferation of gated communities and security zones are some of the symptoms that point to the urgent need to re-address the idea of Open City and translate it into concrete intervention strategies.
In order to be sustained in the face of today's urban challenges, the Open City must be researched and (re)designed. This is the task of the 4th IABR.
Six themes : The curators have selected six international teams of experts to work on six situations in which geographical, spatial, typological and socio-cultural conditions reveal the most pertinent qualities and potentials of Open City. The results of their work will be exhibited and discussed extensively during the 4th IABR in the NAI.
The six themes and sub-curators are:
The Open City is an urban condition that enables diverse groups to interact peacefully, creatively, and productively. But the Open City is not a 'soup'; it is a finely tuned integration machine that encourages distinct communities and groups to settle and establish the dynamic relationships that we call urbanity.
Today, the very diversity that once activated our cities threatens to dissolve them: cities are turning into archipelagos; public infrastructures are splintering; and public spaces are being left to wither. Differences between rich and poor, conflicts among ethnic groups, and the proliferation of gated communities and security zones are some of the symptoms that point to the urgent need to re-address the idea of Open City and translate it into concrete intervention strategies.
In order to be sustained in the face of today's urban challenges, the Open City must be researched and (re)designed. This is the task of the 4th IABR.
Six themes : The curators have selected six international teams of experts to work on six situations in which geographical, spatial, typological and socio-cultural conditions reveal the most pertinent qualities and potentials of Open City. The results of their work will be exhibited and discussed extensively during the 4th IABR in the NAI.
The six themes and sub-curators are:
1. Community (USA): Interboro, New York.
2. Collective (Russia): Bart Goldhoorn, Alexander Sverdlov with Anna Bronovitskaya / Project Russia.
3. Refuge (Istanbul, Beirut, Amman, Cairo, Dubai): Philipp Misselwitz and Can Altay, Istanbul.
4. Squat (Addis Ababa, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro): Jörg Stollmann and Rainer Hehl Berlin/Zurich5. Reciprocity (Jakarta): Stephen Cairns and Daliana Suryawinata, Edinburg/Rotterdam
6.The Maakbare Samenleving/The Make-able Society (Rotterdam): Crimson Architectural Historians, Rotterdam.
Other events: Besides the main exhibition, hosted by the Netherlands Architecture Institute, programmes are being developed in other venues in Rotterdam and in Amsterdam, and with VPRO, the Dutch national broadcaster. Parallel Cases // IABR@RDM is a collaboration with the Academy for Architecture and Urban Design Rotterdam and the IHS/Erasmus University, and will show designs and research projects related to the themes Squat, Community, Refuge, Collective and Reciprocity, from international schools and universities.
For more information, please contact Xandra Nibbeling at the IABR press office: +31 10 206 00 33, xnibbeling@iabr.nl, or visit http://www.iabr.nl.
For more information, please contact Xandra Nibbeling at the IABR press office: +31 10 206 00 33, xnibbeling@iabr.nl, or visit http://www.iabr.nl.
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