This Wednesday, The Institut Ramon Llull presented Water Parliaments: Architectures Ecosocial ProjectiveCatalonia in Venice’s Proposal for the Biennale Architettura 2025, Which invited the world to Join a Global Conversation on Sustainable Futures and the Crucial Role of Water in Shaping Them. Cured, designed and produced by Eva Franch and Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro MuiñoThe Exhibition Water parliaments Explores The Fundamental Role of Water As a Vital Resource and Cultural Agent, Addressing Climate Cisis Through Architecture, Interdisciplinary Research and Innovative Design.
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is Directed by Italian Architect and Teacher Carlo RattiWho has chosen Intelligents. Natural. Artificial. Collective. As the Central Theme. The Director of the IRL, Pere AlmedaStated That “In a World That Is Adrift, Carlo Ratti Invites Us to Talk About Intelligences, and It is necessary to Apply Them to Water Management, an Essential element for the Viability of Year Ecosystem.” Almeda Almed Highlight the “Huge” presence of Catalan and Balearic Architecture in this Year’s Edition, Both in the Official Exhibition, with the Participation of Five Studios, and in Other Pavilions, “Showing That Our Architecture Is Present in Spaces of Influence, Global Debate and Creation, Proposing New Debate and Creation Languages and New Solutions. ” He also recalled that next Year Catalan and Balearic Architecture Will Take Center Stage Internationally with the World Congress of Architecture of the International Union of Architects (UIA) Being Held in Barcelona.
Eva Franch and Gilabert Said That “All Architecture is Water Architecture, as Water Plays an Essential Role Not Only As a Resource to Be Consumed But As a Structural Element That Articulates Our Life”. In this without, she is pointed out that “This project seeks to align architecture with one of the greatest contemporary crisis, which is the water crisis, and to show how architectors can respond to collective aspirations as a society, through in practices considered non-essential, such aspeculation and imagination.” Mireia Luzárraga Contextuality How the Water Crisis Affects The Entire Planet and Explained That During The Preliminary Research They Found a Lack of Critical Studies of the Catalan, Valencian and Balearic Territories, “We set to Carry Out this work on Focused on Our Own Territory, with a View to Exporting It On a Global Scale.” Alejandro Muiñofor His part, ephasesed the desire to “work in an intersectional manner, Where Architecture merges with politics, territory, biology … and attempts to imagine multi-species future that allow us to escape this isissue in a democratic way.”
The TEAM EXPLAINED CUERATORIAL ELEMENTS THAT STRUCURE THE PROJECT:
The Future Laboratories, with More Than 100 Local Voices. Over the Past Six Months, the curators have conducted multidisciplinary workshops across catalan, Balearic and Valencian Territories in Collaboration with Various Cultural Institutions. These Sessions Involved Scientists, Artists, Farmers and Activists, and Highlight Local Knowledge To Imagine Innovative Strategies to Face a Future Inevitably Shaped by Climate Change. The Future Laboratories Form The Foundation of the Work to Be Shown at the 2025 Architecture Biennale.
The Exhibition at the Dock Cantieri Cucchini, Venice. The installation is divided into Two Areas. The First Features Several Audiovisual Pieces That Illustrate the Research Carried Out for this project. The Second Area Displays in Collection of Speculative Prototypes and Installations – Projective Architectures – Funder to Fabric Structure That Is Tense Yet Fluid. The installation is accompanied by Cycles of Mist and Audiovisual Support that provide to Unique sensory experience, created in Poetic Space for Dialogue and Action.
The Book. The Project included in Publication TITled 100 Words for Water: A VOCABULARY, Which Collects More Than 100 New Terms Related to Water, Proposed and Defined by Collaborators from the World Such As Stacy Alaimo, Markus Bader, Chan Carson, Beatriz Colomina, Cooking Sions, José Luis de Vicente, Elvira Dyangani Hone, Sana Frini, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Samia Henni, Andrés Jaque, Lydia Kallipoliti, Iván L. Munuera, Matsipa Mpho, Marina Otero, Spyros Papapetros, Philippe Rahm, James Taylor Foster, Julia Watson, Albena Yaneva and Liam Young. Edited by Eva Franch i Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, The Book is an Initiative of the Institut Ramon Llull and the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC), and the English version is published by Lars Müller Publishers.
The Atlas: Water Architectures. This is an online repository, updated through an Open Call for contributions, that Documents The Interactions of Architecture, Culture and Ecology with Water on Both and Global Scale.
Eva Franch and Gilabert (Ebro Delta, 1978) Is an architect, Curator, Researcher and Professor at Umprum in Prague. She has Led LEDs such as the aa architectural association in London and Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and Haought at Various Universities, including Cooper Union, Princeton Soa, Rice University, and Columbia University GSApp. Considered One of the influencer Most Voices in the International Architectural Community, she has healed over 30 exhibitions Around the world, from Taipei to Buenos Aires and Berlin, Exploring the Future Through Art, Design and Architecture.
Mireia Luzárraga (Madrid, 1981) and Alejandro Muiño (Barcelona, 1982) Lead Takk Architecture and Research Studio, Based in Barcelona and New York. Their Work combines Feminism and Ecology to Promote Fairer Living Conditions. Luzárraga is an attached teacher at Columbia University GSApp in New York and Bush Are Visiting Teachers at the University of Tokyo. They have recaptured Several Awards, including the “Design Vanguard 2024” and the “FAD 2023”, and their work is part of Collections in Museums Such As the Fract Center, The Vitra Design Museum, and the Dhub Barcelona.
The Institut Ramon Llull Produces and organizations The Participation of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the Eventi Collaterali of the Venice Biennale. It has participated in the architecture biennale since 2012 and the art biennale since. Where this occasion, the expert committee was chaired by Pau Bajet and Tomeu RamisMembers of the Team for the Proposal Becoming, Architectures for a Planet in Transition of the 2026 Uia World Congress of Architecture, with a single vote. The Members Were Maria BuhigasChief Architect of Barcelona City Council; Judit CarreraDirector of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB); Guim CostaDean of the College of Architects of Catalonia (COAC); Marina Otero VerzierArchitect, Curator and Researcher, Curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and Co-Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale 2021; and Eva SerratsArchitect and Co-Curator of the Catalan Culture Exhibition at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale (Following the fish).
