Event: Mutualism in Art and Architecture at la Biennale di Venezia Architettura
A Hybrid Finissage for Philippines Pavilion and Open Collectives Station at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia
Featuring: Koray Caliskan and Marisa Morán Jahn from Parsons MS Strategic Design & Management program.
Friday, November 19, 2021, 9 – 10:30am Eastern
Attend the event virtually on Zoom here
Join us for a hybrid closing of the Philippine Pavilion and Open Collectives at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia. This virtual gathering celebrates the Philippine Pavilion’s Structures of Mutual Support and the Open Collectives’ Architecture for an Equitable Digital Economy. In both installations in Arsenale, film, architectural installations, and texts explore the relationship between the solidarity economy, art, and architecture. On the one hand, art and architecture forge new cultural imaginaries, vocabularies, and civic structures to enable mutualist groups to flourish and gain visibility. On the other hand, the co-creative process galvanizes its participants, inciting new imaginative futures. This event brings together leading thinkers and practitioners whose international perspectives bring the intersection between art, architecture, and mutualism to the fore.
Presenters
Structures of Mutual Support, Special Mention at the Venice Biennale
Mutual support is a mode of self-organization and collaboration for communities to build resilience and to support each other through adversity or crisis, such as the changing seasons, natural disasters, and armed conflict. It exists in many forms around the world and its principles are rooted in empathy, care, and reciprocity. The Norwegian Dugnad, Brazilian Mutirão, and the Filipino Bayanihan are specific expressions of mutual support systems. Structures of Mutual Support is a critical exploration and enactment of mutual support as a method of architectural praxis that engages issues of resilience, transformation, climate change, and structures of power and resistance.
Architects Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes
Curators, Philippine Pavilion at Biennale Architettura 2021
Open Collectives
Featured in the Biennale Architettura 2021 and in Arsenale, Open Collectives is an immersive installation featuring digital platforms and architectural projects that seek to leverage the power of solidarity in order to strengthen economic sovereignty, housing affordability, communal self-determination, and mutual aid. Open Collectives was initiated by Rafi Segal with Sarah Williams in collaboration with futurist Greg Lindsay and artist Marisa Morán Jahn.
Rafi Segal, Architect
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at MIT; Director, SMArchS Urbanism Program; Director, MIT Future Urban Collectives
Marisa Morán Jahn, Artist/Filmmaker
Associate Director of Integrated Design at Parsons/The New School; 2021-2022 Sundance Fellow; Senior Researcher at MIT
Respondents
Koray Caliskan, Economic Sociologist
Associate Director and Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management, The New School
Arturo Escobar, Design Anthropologist
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Adjunct Professor, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia; Author, Designs for the Pluriverse
Mutualism in Art and Architecture is a project of the Philippine Pavilion in partnership with MIT Future Urban Collectives with support from The New School and Studio REV-.
The Philippine Pavilion is a collaborative undertaking of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Office of Deputy Speaker and Congresswoman Loren Legarda. NCCA Chairman Arsenio “Nick” J. Lizaso is the Commissioner of the Philippine Pavilion.
The official Closing Ceremony of the Philippine Pavilion is on Nov. 21, 2021 at 2:00 pm (CET).
