Friday, November 19, 2021, 3–4:30pm CET (Venice) / 9-10:30am ET (New York) / 10–11:30pm GMT+8 (Philippines)
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Join us for an online hybrid closing activity of the Philippine Pavilion and Open Collectives at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale. 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 activity brings together leading thinkers and practitioners whose international perspectives bring the intersection between art, architecture, and mutualism to the fore.
Presenters/discussants
Structures of Mutual Support, Special Mention Awardee at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale
Architects Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes
Curators, Philippine Pavilion at the 17th International Venice Architecture 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.
Open Collectives
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
Featured in the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale 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.
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
The curators will conduct a guided tour of the Philippine Pavilion at 2pm (CET) and at 4:30–5pm (CET) on November 19. For health and safety purposes, only 30 guests are allowed inside the Pavilion at any given time.
Mutualism in Art and Architecture webinar 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 participation at the 17th International Venice Architecture Biennale 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 November 21, 2021 at 2pm CET.
Press contact
Jeanne Melissa Severo, Philippine Arts in Venice Biennale (PAVB) Coordinating Committee
info [at] philartvenicebiennale.net / philartsvenicebiennale.org