Curators for Austrian Pavilion Named for Venice Architecture Biennale 2020
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The Austrian Federal Chancellery announced that the directors of the Centre for Global Architecture, Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer, have been appointed as curators of the Austrian pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice iCurators for Austrian Pavilion Named for Venice Architecture Biennale 2020
The Austrian Federal Chancellery announced that the directors of the Centre for Global Architecture, Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer, have been appointed as curators of the Austrian pavilion for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice in 2020.The winning project submitted by Peter Mortenbock and Helge Mooshammer, “Platform Austria,” addresses the rise of digital platforms, such as Facebook and Google, which enter new business lines based on the data they gather and start building entire neighborhoods. The occupation of public space by investors is a highly relevant, emerging issue that applies all over the world; it highlights the challenges that are at play in the democratization of space.“Digital platforms such as Facebook, Uber, Airbnb and Amazon are not only new types of enterprises but also a completely new culture of life — from the products we handle and the services we use every day to entire urban neighbourhoods that will be built by major platform enterprises such as Google in the next few years. Those changes raise significant questions on the social potentials and risks of the architecture of these all-encompassing ecosystems,” says Peter Mortenbock.“‘Platform Urbanism’ describes the expansion of ground-breaking technologies into urban space. However, these changes are not only driven by technology alone but by the interaction between technological innovation and social and cultural demands. What is striking is the similarity between the marketing slogans of today’s platforms and the demands of countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. There seems to be a link that we want to explore in our curatorial program for the Austrian pavilion,” adds Helge Mooshammer.To critically reflect on this emerging platform urbanism, the “Platform Austria” exhibition concept addresses two defining aspects that serve as curatorial guiding principles for the show at the Austrian pavilion during the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale 2020: The leading role of “conversation,” which gives the opportunity to communicate actively and continuously with countless users is the lifeline of platform economies; the promise of “future potential,” which focuses on building on the resource of continuous conversation, platforms offer as their most important asset the promise to be the suitable structure for tapping future potentials.The pavilion will be designed in collaboration with Vienna-based architecture collective ‘mostlikely’ and will be on view from May 23 through November 29, 2020. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more