New Exhibition at Danish Architecture Center Water is Coming
Poles are melting, groundwater is rising, and torrential rain is flooding roads and houses. It's no longer a question of if, but when the water is coming - and we must adapt to it. Danish Architecture Center (DAC) is addressing this new reality with the Water is Coming exhibition, opening on October 7, 2024. In a sensuous and poetic exhibition universe, the exhibition explores the relationship between water, people and nature in a rapidly changing world where, despite the seemingly bleak outlook, there is also hope and opportunity.
Water is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Rising sea levels and more fre-quent cloudbursts demand radical change in urban design and organization. Cities like Copenhagen, Venice and Jakarta are already dealing with the inevitable question: How can we adapt to the water instead of fighting it?
In the Water is Coming exhibition, DAC is seeking to create a deeper understanding of our dependence on water and the challenges it poses to our cities. The exhibition also presents different solutions for how we can live with water in the future.
Adapting Our Cities to a World with More Water
The exhibition presents a wide range of solutions from both Denmark and abroad that show how we can adapt to rising water levels. Concrete projects explore topics such as biodiversity, urban development, and innovative waterfront housing. There are also models and projections illustrating how scientists, architects, landscape archi-tects and urban planners can work together to protect cities and create recreational spaces for both people and nature.
Sensory Installations
Visitors enter a sensuous scenography of blue-green textiles that float from the ceil-ing like waves. The Water Drops installation is a sensuous experience of the coming of rainfall. The textile installation Sky & Sea invites visitors to look up and observe the organic waves and beautiful colors. Visitors to the exhibition can also try their hand at several computer games and navigate fictional future universes characterized by rising waters.
There are also contributions from the Danish Pavilion at the International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023, including the scenographic installation Mermaid Bay, created by Christian Friedländer as part of the Coastal Imaginaries exhibition, curated by Josefine Michau. Visitors meet a dramatic staging of a future coastal landscape, partially engulfed by the sea. Through a sensuous scenography of light and sound, the fragility of the coastal landscape and the harsh realities of cli-mate change are depicted in a magnificent diorama. The installation conveys a deep-er understanding of nature-based design in wetlands.
With Water is Coming, DAC wants to inspire visitors to reflect on the role of water in the future and actively join the debate about how we can live with, protect and pre-serve this essential resource for future generations.
The Water is Coming exhibition has been developed by Danish Architecture Center.
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The exhibition has received funding from the philanthropic association Realdania, Dreyers Fond, Knud Højgaards Fond, Augustinus Fonden and Beckett Fonden.
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October 07, 2024 10:00 AMUntil
March 23, 2025 06:00 PMVenue
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