As part of INTELLIGENS. NATURAL. ARTIFICIAL
19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
Curated by Carlo Ratti
Exhibitors: GXN, 3XN, The Royal Danish Academy – Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA)
Location: Arsenale, Venice
Local consultant and installation coordinator
Local Resource / Collective Knowledge is an exploration of local ingenuity, revealing relationships between craft, community, local materials, and ecology.
Three intertwining panels display site-specific collaborations. Each emerged from working with different local bio-materials, communities, and ways of making. Yet, the approach is one. Each collaboration is a catalyst for adaptation, displaying three different ways of dealing with a changing environment and turning disruptions into productive opportunities.
The Pavilion at the Arsenale responds to the Biennale Architettura’s call to engage multiple forms of intelligence: natural, artificial, and collective. This approach means understanding place—through mapping, listening and observing, but mostly actively engaging with local people, local skills, local needs.
“Local Resource / Collective Knowledge is a platform for us to critically examine the foundations of global building practice. Exploring how to engage with locals in ways that preserve their richness, this project asks what architecture can learn from moving more openly between local immersion and global dialogue.”
– Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard, Partner and Head of Innovation at GXN.
Industrial construction has severed our connection to place. Today’s globalised architecture often begins with the assumption of a ‘blank slate’ – sites imagined as empty, absolved of the need to understand or respond to local contexts, especially those that resist easy modelling. This approach has enormous scaling potential but it has come at a high price: the erosion of local ecologies, cultures, economies, and communities.
Read more: https://gxn.3xn.com/project/local-resource-collective-knowledge
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Local Resource/Collective Knowledge took up Biennale Carlo Ratti’s challenge to reach out to disciplines beyond architecture to inform proposals for the program. As such, we have many participants to thank for their contributions to this project.
Participants: 3XN, The Royal Danish Academy – Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA)
Technical Collaborators: Ramboll
Team Members: 3XN, GXN, CITA – Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy Architecture, Design, Conservation, CiA Computation in Architecture Masters programme, Royal Danish Academy Architecture, Design, Conservation, COLLAB: Glogau & Kongshaug, Università Iuav di Venezia
GXN Team: Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard, Henry Glogau, Aleksander Kongshaug, Johannes Dickmeiss, Bela Steiner, Philip Holmberg, Mateusz Grabowski, Avery Thorne, Gabrielle Barbara.
3XN Team: Kim Herforth Nielsen, Montgomery de Luna, Kenn Clausen, Stig Vestager Gothelf, Olivia Toftum, Mathhew Holden, Aleksander Andghuladze, Fabio Tavola, Jasper Carelse.
Thanks: Havhøst, Vejle Fjordhave, Sustain.me, Consorzio di Tutela della Cozza di Scardovari DOP, Ríos Intermitentes, AFROARTE, University of Matanzas, M+B Studio, Barlby Carlsson, SDU Structures, Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Southern Denmark DTU Sustain, Technical University of Denmark
Funded by: Realdania, The Danish Arts Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation, Beckett-Foundation, The Dreyer Foundation,
This project is made in partial collaboration with the Eco-Metabolistic Architecture project, which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101019693). This project is made in partial collaboration with the Blue Biomass Global Innovation Network, which has received funding form the Danish Ministry of Education and Research.
Supported by: Biomason, Rambøll, Red Bull
Photography: Rasmus Hjortshøj
