CURATORIAL STATEMENT<\/h2>\n
OPEN23 looks into Solidarity as a fundamental and indispensable cohesion within architecture and within society as a whole.\u00a0 Does solidarity have the potential to lead the way through\u00a0the ecological crisis, and can solidarity be a future driver for sustainable solutions?<\/p>\n
Through\u00a0examples of new aesthetics and redefined ethics – from a new understanding of everythings\u00b4 entanglement –\u00a0OPEN23 will discuss how architecture from a radically alternative perspective can contribute to solutions where solidarity overrules economic interests.<\/p>\n
Facing\u00a0the overwhelming climate changes, we find ourselves in the middle of a cosmological revolution, a\u00a0polycrisis,\u00a0with Earth in desperate need of our attention.\u00a0It is said that Louis Kahn once asked a brick \u2018What do you want, brick?\u2019 and the brick said \u2018I like an arch.\u2019 \u2018But arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over an opening. What do you think of that, brick?\u201d Brick said: \u2018I like an arch.\u2019\u00a0The question is, will we – as architectural collective – be able to rise, invent new practices, new aesthetics, new paradigms? Dare we ask Earth,\u00a0\u2019What do YOU want, Earth\u2019 and will we accept, if the answer is \u2018Please leave me alone\u2019?<\/p>\n
More than ever, we must consider every step we take,\u00a0every move we make,\u00a0every brick we lay.\u00a0We can no longer settle with\u00a0being\u00a0in solidarity. At this point in time, we must\u00a0act\u00a0in solidarity.<\/p>\n
OPEN23\u00a0invites Practice, Industry and Academia to\u00a0explore the implications of a solidary practice.\u00a0We\u00b4ll present a curated programme based on curiosity, critique and care, fueling a broader discussion about empowered Solidarity in architecture.<\/p>\n
OPEN23\u00a0is not an unequivocal answer to all the challenges we are facing, but rather an invitation to look into other parameters of the architectural field of how we can join forces, share ideas, visions and dreams for the most eclectic of professions: Architecture.<\/p>\n
Karen Kj\u00e6rgaard, Katarina Bramsen Buhl & Mathias Skafte<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>
THE DANISH ARTS FOUNDATION SUPPORTS OPEN23<\/h2>\n
The Danish Arts Foundation generously co-funds the development of new curatorial talents as part of developing of the OPEN23 programme.<\/p>\n
With the appointment of two architects and former students at the school, Katarina Bramsen Buhl and Mathias Skafte, OPEN23 creates a curatorial concept in a process between the school’s curator and two external advisors.<\/p>\n
\u00a0With the OPEN festival, Aarhus School of Architecture wish to develope new formats for architectural dissemination.<\/p>\n
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