Visionaries
Selgascano, Second Home Hollywood offices, 2019, Los Angeles California © Iwan-Baan
What are the visions of architects, artists, designers and engineers who aspire to systematically change the world? This exhibition explores visionary creation processes and authorships that propose an alternative order. Their projects, more than mere physical and spatial structures, are ambitious and controversial prescriptions for planetary strategies. In many different forms, from the bedroom scale to city models, these radical prototypes are open to being productively interpreted, not just replicated, by future generations.
Annotated tours to Visionaries exhibition
90 minutes, free, booking required: tours@trienaldelisboa.com
Sun. 09/10, 15h: Cristina Veríssimo and Diogo Burnay, chief curators of Terra (Portuguese)
Sun. 30/10, 11h: Anastasia Smirnova, exhibition curator (English)
Sun. 13/11, 15h: Andreia Garcia, Architectural Affairs (Portuguese)
Sun. 27/11, 15h: Alexandra Paio, architect and researcher (Portuguese)
Sat. 03/12, 11h: Carine Pimenta and Daniel Zamarbide – Bureau, exhibition design (English)
The Book
This book is part of a collection of pocket-size books for the sixth edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale, edited by the curators of this exhibition and published in partnership with Circo de Ideias.
The project Visionaries – an exhibition and a publication – explores both the process and agents of visionary design production in the age of the next grand narrative. It focuses on the visions by architects, designers, and engineers, who want to change the world systemically. The exhibition participants and the authors of this book aspire to impose an alternative order of things and create not just beautiful physical structures or objects, but ambitious, and, at times, controversial prescriptions for future action. In this way or another, all of them are interested in new models and prototypes that are supposed to be interpreted – not simply replicated! – in multiple productive ways, also by future generations.
Colophon
Editorial Concept and Interviews by
Anastassia Smirnova with SVESMI
Essays by
Alexander D’Hooghe
Anastassia Smirnova
Andrés Jaque
Anupama Kundoo
Aristide Antonas
bplus.xyz
Caroline Voet
Cristina Veríssimo &
Diogo Burnay
Débora Mesa Molina
Peter Mensinga
Winy Maas
Copy Editing and Proofreading
Will Jennings
Published by
Circo de Ideias: Magda Seifert, Pedro Baía – Editorial Coordination; Beatriz Takahashi, Catarina Matos, Patrícia Coelho – Editorial Assistants
Graphic Design
barbara says…: Cláudia Castelo, António Silveira Gomes – Project Lead; Luísa Tudela – Design Assistant
Curator
Anastassia Smirnova with SVESMI
Co-curators
Anupama Kundoo (Tabula Rasa), Caroline Voet (Contemplating Space)
Curatorial Assistants
Valerie Borisova, Laura Steenbeke
Participants
Andrés Jaque / Office For Political Innovation
Dom Hans Van Der Laan & Caroline Voet
Rohan Chavan
The Tokyo Toilet Project
Video artists
Elena Koptiaeva, Mila Baumann, Nuno Cera
Universities Represented
Bergen School of Architecture (BAS)
Bio-integrated Design Lab, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Cork Centre for Architectural Education, UCC & MTU
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
Exhibition Design
Bureau (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)
Graphic Design
barbara says…
Project Coordinator
Marta Moreira
Acknowledgements
For their inspiration, conversations, suggestions, challenges or critical comments: Alexander Sverdlov, Cristina Veríssimo, Diogo Burnay, Winy Maas, Nuno Cera
For the access given to their archives: Anupama Kundoo, Caroline Voet, Museum of Cosmonautics, Rexit
For their support: Auroville Foundation, Auroville Media Interface, Jacqueline Lacoste, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Van der Laan Stichting (Foundation), Roosenberg Abbey, The Nippon Foundation, Olga Grinkrug, Grupo la Musa, Mikaela Radesku, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Second Home Hollywood