The Oslo Architecture Triennale has announced the program and participants for this year's sixth edition of the event, titled After Belonging, which will open in September of this year. Participants will contribute to two exhibitions, occurring alongside a conference, and collateral events, taking place September 8-November 27, 2016.
As described by the Oslo Architecture Triennale website: "The 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale designs the objects, spaces, and territories for a transforming condition of belonging. Global circulation of people, information, and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence, property, and identity—a crisis of belonging. Circulation brings greater accessibility to ever-new commodities and further geographies. But, simultaneously, circulation also promotes growing inequalities for large groups, kept in precarious states of transit. After Belonging examines both our attachment to places and collectivities—Where do we belong?—as well as our relation to the objects we own, share, and exchange—How do we manage our belongings?”
Events:
The On Residence Exhibition
Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture DOGA, September 8-November 27:
“...speculates on architectural intervention strategies at a selection of sites—in Oslo, the Nordic region and around the globe—that are understood to encapsulate the contemporary transformation of belonging.”
The In Residence Exhibition
National Museum––Architecture, September 8-November 27:
“...dissects the architectures entangled in the contemporary reconfiguration of belonging, documenting the ways in which these architectures redefine residence, and the spatial, aesthetic, technical, and sociopolitical implications of this redefinition.”
The After Belonging Conference
Oslo Opera House, September 9, 2016; 09:00-16:00:
“...[considers] what is architecture’s role in the contemporary reconfiguration of belonging? How has this process transformed the notion of residence? What are the spatial, technical, and sociopolitical consequences of this transformation?”
After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit
Publication by Lars Müller, Launching September 8, 2016:
“...investigates the objects, spaces, and territories of our transforming condition of belonging. Global circulation of people, information, and goods has destabilized what we understand by residence, questioning spatial permanence, property, and identity—a crisis of belonging. Circulation brings greater accessibility to ever-new commodities and further geographies. But, simultaneously, circulation also promotes growing inequalities for large groups, kept in precarious states of transit.”
The Academy
Organized by Oslo School of Architecture and Design, September 11-18, 2016:
“...will bring schools from around the world to enter in a global dialogue and knowledge-sharing experiment, reflecting on issues related to the topics explored in the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: After Belonging, including new forms of residence, contemporary states of transit, and the ways in which architecture and design are responding to new forms of belonging and belongings.”
The Embassy
November 2016:
“...is a stateless embassy that represents, through cultural means, the ideals of ‘stateless democracy’ developed by Kurdish communities of the autonomous region of Rojava, northern-Syria. The embassy is conceived and designed by Studio Jonas Staal, and takes the form of a temporary installation in Oslo. Through assemblies and public debate it will present the cultural and political ideals of this new autonomous region. The aim of the project is to rethink non-state models of political representation through art, as well as to engage a large public in the unique cultural and political ideals being developed in this war-torn region.”
“...a series of [events], both in Oslo and around the various In Residence Sites that respond to the curatorial framework for OAT 2016:After Belonging. These programs are expected to multiply the perspectives and formats of the discussion taking place at the Triennale.”
Participants:
- Adrian Lahoud
- Ahmet Ögüt & Emily Fahlén
- Amale Andraos
- Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation
- TYIN Tegnestue
- Arjun Appadurai
- Atelier Bow-Wow
- Bengler
- Bouchra Khalili
- Caitlin Blanchfield, Glen Cummings, Jaffer Kolb, Farzin Lotfi-Jam & Leah Meisterlin
- Center for Political Beauty
- Cristina López Uribe
- Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe)
- Coralie Gourguechon
- Deane Simpson
- Design Earth
- Didier Fassin
- Einar Sneve Martinussen & Jørn Knutsen Elisabeth Søiland, Silje Klepsvik & Åsne Hagen
- Emeka Ogboh
- Enorme Estudio
- Eriksen Skajaa Architects
- Eyal Weizman
- Factory-baked Goods
- Felicity D. Scott
- Femke Herregraven
- FFB
- First Office
- Folder
- Frida Escobedo & Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa
- Grete Brochman
- Gro Bonesmo
- Hu Fang
- Husos
- Ijlal Muzaffar
- Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli
- Iver Neumann
- James Bridle
- James D. Graham
- Jeffrey Schnapp
- Jesse LeCavalier
- Jill Magid
- John Harwood
- Juan Herreros
- Kadambari Baxi, Janette Kim, Meg McLaganl, David Schiminovich & Mark Wasiuta
- Keller Easterling
- Kër Thiossane with Amadou Kane Sy Khaled Malas
- Laura Kurgan, Juan Saldarriaga & Angelika Rettberg
- L.E.FT & Lawrence Abu Hamdan Living Architectures
- Louise Amoore
- Lorenzo Pezzani & Charles Heller Luis Callejas & Charlotte Hansson Mabel Wilson
- Martha Rosler & Pelin Tan Martti Kalliala
- Merve Bedir
- Michel Feher
- Nabil Ahmed & Dámaso Randulfe Negar Azimi
- Nora Akawi, Nina V. Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl & Eduardo Rega Matilde Cassani
- OMA
- Pa.LaC.E
- Pamela Karimi
- Paulo Tavares
- Paulo Moreira, Ana Naomi de Sousa & Pétur Waldorff
- Per Heggenes/IKEA Foundation
- Reinhold Martin
- ROTOR
- Ruimteveldwerk
- estudio SIC | VIC
- Snøhetta
- Sputniko!
- Studio Jonas Staal with the communities of Rojava
- Supersudaca
- Superunion
- Territorial Agency
- The State (Rahel Aima, Ahmad Makia, Deepak Unnikrishnan)
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen
- Thomas Keenan
- Transborder Studio
- Troy Conrad Therrien
- Unfold
- Yasmeen Lari
Curators:
- Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco
- Ignacio G. Galán
- Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
- Alejandra Navarrete Llopis
- Marina Otero Verzier
The event's opening weekend is September 8-11, 2016, in Oslo. For more information, visit the Oslo Architecture Triennale website, here.
Event descriptions via the Oslo Architecture Triennale website.
