> Bron: IABR. Foto: George Brugmans.
Exhibition at NAI Rotterdam: 25 september 2009 - 10 january 2010
The main exhibition of the 4th IABR is Open City: Designing Coexistence in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). The building is literally opening up to the city of Rotterdam during the 4th IABR with a new and direct link between the street and the biggest of the exhibition galleries.
A visit to Open City: Designing Coexistence starts in the Forum, where there is a large-scale walk-through model of the Open City with introductory exhibitions, facilities and public activities in the framework of the Programme of Events. After leaving the Forum, you can visit six sub-exhibitions scattered throughout the entire NAI: Spatial Engineering, Refuge, Reciprocity, Community, Squat, and Collective.
The Forum, the heart of the exhibition Open City: Designing Coexistence, offers an exploration of the urban development discourse and a critique of everyday reality. There is research on the public domain, which has such an important influence on the structure of the city (Guide to Open Places). There is speculation on the redistribution of all goods and space (Neotopia) and on what happens if the earth is one big continuous urban space (Stadt-Igel).
But there is also detailed research on ordinary lives in an ordinary city, how they differ from one another, and where they intersect (Crossing Rotterdam, Migrant Dependency). Or on unexpected cultural exchanges, as in the Belhuis, where migrants from every corner of the globe meet (Belhuis at the IABR). Or the social aspects of different culinary cultures are examined (The Meal).
The Forum is a diverse collection of empirical facts but also of playful theories and strategies that bear on the problems of the open city. It is an introduction to the six main themes of the 4th IABR: Maakbaarheid, Refuge, Reciprocity, Community, Squat, and Collective. Together with the Forum, these themes form the core of the message of this edition of the IABR: reflection on what makes the city of the coming decades lively and liveable.
> For the complete program of the 4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, please refer to www.iabr.nl.
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