A lot of people view it as a tradition to visit the graduation show at the Aarhus School of Architecture and experience the many beautiful and inspiring projects made by the new architects.
This year it will all be possible without leaving your home. The graduation show titled We Do Architecture will as a reaction to the COVID 19 situation be an entirely digital exhibition, where the visitors can “walk” between rows of columns drawn by the new architects.
“The COVID 19 situation is an obvious opportunity to try out a new and different exhibition format, the digital – a format which under ordinary circumstances is dismissed. An exhibition of architecture precisely consists of the encounter with physical drawings, models and materials. So, how can a digital exhibition replace that experience? The answer is: It cannot! But perhaps it can do something else”, says Karen Kjærgaard, curator and head of exhibitions at the Aarhus School of Architecture, and continues:
“The exhibition comprises of 80 columns, which the graduates have drawn specifically for the exhibition, based on their projects. The school forms the foundation of the space, and the students are the pillars on which the architecture of tomorrow is built. The columns thus become the support structure of the exhibition”.
The theme of the exhibition is We Do Architecture. Though the theme was chosen before the COVID lockdown, it now has taken on a new meaning.
“We Do Architecture was actually meant in the sense ‘we design, build models and experiment’, but now the title is also expressing a hope and an urge: We Want to Make Architecture. And the architects are ready to find solutions to problems that have not yet been put into words,” Karen Kjærgaard says.
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We Do Architecture: Digital Graduation ShowType
ExhibitionOrganizers
From
July 01, 2020 12:00 PMUntil
August 31, 2020 12:00 PMVenue
https://wda2020.aarch.dk/Address