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BK Bouwkunde is represented at the Venice Biennale 2018 through a multitude of different types of projects. The exhibitions can be found in pavilions and in palazzos in the city centre: from a research exhibition to an installation, from student work to a dance performance, from a traveling exposition to young architectural talent. Explore the different projects here.

BK Booths

What: research exhibition
Where: palazzo Mora, palazzo Michiel, palazzo Bembo
Who: researchers and students from BK Bouwkunde

BK Booths present the latest research in architecture and the built environment, researched by students, post docs, and other designers of BK City. Ten booths are spread throughout the city during the Biennale: seven in Palazzo Mora, two in Palazzo Bembo, and one in Palazzo Michiel. Visit Venice and explore the knowledge generated at our faculty. Explore the ten booths here.

The port and the fall of Icarus

What: installation
Where: Riva dei Sette Martiri
Who: Northscape collective (Hamed Khosravi, Taneha Kuzniecow Bacchin, and Filippo La Fleur, Urbanism)

This temporary public installation in the Port Authority of Venice includes a series of interconnected rooms, each of which hold a description, reflection, or projection on trends of global logistics. This theme varies in scale, from megascales, to the human body, and genetics. Learn more here.

Port City Futures

What: exhibition
Where: inside the installation ‘The port and the fall of Icarus’, Riva dei Sette Martiri
Who: LDE Centre for Metropolis and Mainport (Carola Hein, department of Architecture, and Lori Tavasszy, faculties of CiTG/TPM)

The Port City Futures initative of the LDE Centre for Metropolis and Mainport investigates the involving spatial use and design of port city regions over time.  On these types of locations, activities occur in the same places, and are sometimes in conflict. The research explores dualities within port city regions and proposes spatial planning and design measures for the use of this limited space. This is necessary for the port and city to be able to jointly evolve. Interdisciplinary methods and long-term perspectives connect different dimensions of spatial use, exploring the dualities within port city regions. Learn more here.

Unbuilding walls Berlin

What: exhibition of the impact and possibilities of the Berlin Wall
Where: German pavilion
Who: Visiting Professors GRAFT and Marianne Birthler, in collaboration with students of the Complex Project MSc1 Landmark studio

It has been 28 years since the fall of the Berlin wall, the same amount of time the wall existed. The German pavilion presents an exhibition in which the impact of the Berlin wall and new urban and architectural opportunities are explored. Visiting Professors GRAFT developed an extensive analysis together with students from Complex Projects, resulting in a publication that can be read here. 

Additionally, the spatial developments of five different neighbourhoods were animated by the students. The animations can be seen both in the pavilion and online:

• Zimmerstraße
• Bernauer Straße
• East Side Gallery    
• Potsdamer Platz
• Band des Bundes

Cosmogonia Mundi

What: dance performance and documentary
Where: main exhibition Padiglione Venezia
Who: Make Move Think (Luisa Calabrese and Lukas Timulak)

This dance performance reflects on the possible futures of the city of Venice and the port of Marghera. The Northscapes Collective’s installation ‘The port and the fall of Icarus’ serves as a décor. The dance performance was performed live on 24 May, the resulting documentary is on display in the main exhibition of Padiglione Venezia. Additionally, a trailer for the documentary can be watched here. 

A city of comings and goings / Do you hear the people sing!

What: exhibition
Where: central pavilion / Japanese pavilion
Who: Crimson architectural historians (amongst others, Wouter Vanstiphout, Urbanism)

A city of comings and goings poses questions that might get under our skin: What do we think about change? What new policies could accommodate inclusion? How can society become enriched by otherness? The exhibition captures a sense of the possible answers. Learn more here. Additionally, the 24-meter-long allegoric drawing ‘Do you hear the people sing!’ is on show at the Japanese pavilion. 

Young Talent Architecture Award 2018

What: exhibition
Where: palazzo Mora
Who: Loed Stolte (Architecture alumnus, winner YTAA 2018)

The Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) supports the talent of recently graduated architects, urban planners, and landscape architects. Projects of the four winners of 2018 is on display in palazzo Mora. More information can be found here.