Living With... The Combined Intelligences

LIVING WITH THE COMBINED INTELLIGENCES

Official public program of the French Pavilion

Friday, October 24

17:30–19:30

Palazzo Zorzi (UNESCO Regional Office), Venice - Castello 4930, 30122 Venice

Language: English

RSVP required

The French Pavilion is operated by the Institut français, operator of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture

Living With... The Existing

In a world defined by permanent instability and interdependence, we need a shift from singular expertise to shared intelligence, and from fixed forms to responsive systems. What does it mean for architecture to think with others – with ecologists, engineers, social scientists, and communities? With non-human agents, planetary dynamics, and algorithmic agents? How does the role of the architect change when design becomes co-authored by residents, informed by data, and entangled with living processes? What kind of architecture becomes possible when we stop working on the world and start working with it?

Held on Friday, October 24 at 5:30 PM at Palazzo Zorzi in Venice, the session will be moderated by Madeleine Houbart, Secretary General of AFEX, with Brendan MacFarlane as Associate Curator of the French Pavilion.

With the participation of:

• Marie-Ange Brayer – Curator, Head of the Design and Industrial Prospective Department, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, France
• Philippe Chiambaretta – Architect and urban planner, founder of PCA-STREAM, France
• Alexander Fil – Architect, WZMH Architects, Canada and Ukraine
• Andrés Jaque (tbc) – Architect and researcher, founder of Office for Political Innovation and Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA/Spain
• Klaus K. Loenhart – Architect and landscape designer, co-founder of terrain: integral designs and professor at Graz University of Technology, Austria
• Philippe Rahm – Architect, founder of Philippe Rahm architectes and visiting associate professor at Columbia GSAPP, France/Switzerland

With the participation of architect and professor Ingrid Taillandier, architect Laure Cardin from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, and the Master’s students of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles.

The lecture will be live-streamed on Instagram @jakobmacfarlane.