Together with renowned experts, the participating architects and designers present their final prototypes to the public in a two-day program as room-spanning installations, films, and performances
The prototypes range from Mae-ling Lokko’s Agrocologies, a circular kitchen system that upcycles food waste into building material, to Dasha Tsapenko’s Lovaratory, a domestic environment that accommodates romantic relationships between humans and other beings. Meanwhile, Lucia Tahan’s Cloud Housing, Simone C Niquille’s HOMESCHOOL and Home Is Where the Droids Are by Certain Measures all look at the startling ways in which infotech could impact the future of living.
For the opening, architects Tatiana Bilbao and Rahul Mehrotra, architectural theorists Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, art historian Margit Rosen, designer Daniel Perlin, and curator James Taylor-Foster will guide through the project spaces and initiate conversations between the creatives and the public.
As part of the festival, ARCH+ features will host a talk between writer and editor Anh-Linh Ngo and architecture curator James Taylor-Foster on practical futurology and transdisciplinary research.
On the festival’s second day, architectural theorist and curator Beatriz Colomina will discuss „The 24/7 Bed“ in a talk on the role that the bed receives in the age of social media.
Following her lecture, she will invite Mark Wigley, the five prototype designers, and others to a “Bed-In” for a series of conversations in pajamas.
The public is also invited to the event After Money, a game night as public forum that asks how new networks of care and sociability can emerge in a world without money. The players—politicians and prominent decision-makers—barter in skills and influence in order to survive natural and man-made disasters. The role-playing game was designed by the Urban Works Agency of the California College of the Arts specifically for Housing the Human, and is presented in collaboration with Future Architecture Platform.
Tickets available here.
Program:
Friday, October 18
7pm: Welcome and walk-throughs with the experts and five practitioners
8:30pm: ARCH+ features: Anh-Linh Ngo in conversation with James Taylor-Foster
9:30pm: Walk-throughs with the experts and five practitioners
10:30pm: Drinks & music
Saturday, October 19
10am–4pm: Open seminar
5pm: Tours of the prototypes with the experts and artistic directors
7pm: Lecture-performance by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
8pm: Game Night After Money
10pm: Drinks & music
Housing the Human Festival, October 18–19, 2019 at radialsystem, Holzmarktstraße 33, Berlin.