SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT Exhibition
Welcome to the former Hunter Douglas factory halls. This place breathes history, while the future lies open. From this location, the 12th International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam (IABR) poses an important question: how do we reshape our world socially and spatially? With the exhibition SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT, we showcase the major challenges of our time. We must start living, building, and dwelling differently to make our environment healthy, just, and future-proof. What can architects, urban planners, and landscape designers contribute to this? You will discover that here.
The challenges we face are not new, but originated in the distant past. Worldwide, nature, the economy, and society are under pressure. With all the consequences that entails, because cities, landscapes, and buildings also suffer from changes in the flows of water, energy, and raw materials. This is largely the result of years of rapid economic growth, resulting in the depletion of the earth and social injustice. Hence the urgent appeal: SOS.
In these historic factory halls, we give a voice to designers who think beyond the short term. They do not let themselves be held back by the issues of the day and create space for innovative ideas for the future. In a creative way, they show how things can be done differently, without financial interests for a small group, but with solutions that benefit the entire society in the long term.
With SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT, we stimulate your imagination. This creates space to dream of a better future.
Check all participants of SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT
AFARAI
Kindship Library, 2025
Ameneh Solati
Traces of Nine Villages (1985-2025)
AIR & Dérive
Decentralisation and privatisation: spatial development in relation to governance
Augusta Fišerytė & Niké te Brinke
Pressure from Below. A Geopoetic approach to making space for hidden waters
Babini Geysen Architects
Nobody Leaves the Party.
Bas Princen
Radical Venacular
Blade–Made
Composite Complexity
Carlijn Kingma
De machinerie van de volkshuisvesting (2025)
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Act of Law: Space Regulators towards
cepezed
De Lievekamp, Oss
Circularity on the Edge
Circularity on the Edge
DATAPOLIS / Negar Sanaan Bensi and Paul Cournet with Patrycja Raszka,Theodor Reinhardt, Fabio Sala & Yiyin Yu
Datapolis: Exploring the Footprint of Data on Our Planet and Beyond
Dele Adeyemo
The Cosmogony of (Racial) Capitalism
Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey
Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas
Falsework
All the world’s a stage
Galaad Van Daele
Geoarchitecture: Building with the Flow
Hans Wilschut
Simulation of Elsewhere
Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven
Finershoven, Antwerpen 2025
Hira Nabi
All That Perishes at the Edge of Land + Flags of Continuance (2 PROJECTS)
HouseEurope!
Right to Housing! Now and Forever
IABR Atelier Delta Rijnmond Drechtsteden 2100; H+N+S, De Urbanisten & POSADMAXWAN
IABR Atelier Delta Rijnmond Drechtsteden 2100
Karim Jaspers / Bright
Some Regret: A Spatial Planning of Critical Raw Materials
KCAP
HunterDouglas
Laurin Böhm
Flössern – in fluent
LMNL office & Studio Anna Zan
A New Age of Stone
Merve Berdir
Repair and Care in Entangled Landscapes
Mei architects & planners
SAWA, Rotterdam, 2026
Miriam Sentler
Energy Islands / Mining Myths / Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne
Nicky Assmann
Solaris
Niels Schrader & Roel Bakkaert
Acid Clouds. Mapping Data Centre Topologies
Powerhouse Company
Rien ne va Plus
Rademacher De Vries Architecten
Tata Steel, circular industry
Rik Lambers
The Spreadsheets of Risk
Sam Jacob Studio
Tender Documents
Sara Ballout
Networks of Necessity
Spatial Justice for Palestine Network NL
School of Spatial Justice
Studio Bas Sala
Cloud City
Studio Folder
Fragments of Democracy I
Studio Meent & Platform Woonopgave
Map of housing policy
Susanna Tomassini i.c.w. Carola Hein
Petroscape timeline
Theo Deutinger / The Department
Global Styles
Theodor Reinhardt / Junkspaceoddity
You Can Be Sure of Hell: Oil, Rotterdam and the Making of a Planetary
Time to Access i.c.w. Office Raumplan
Wooncoöperatie de Nieuwe Meent
WAI Architecture Think Tank
Boomerang Effect
ZONES URBAINES SENSIBLES (ZUS)
Masterplan NYMA, Nymegen, 2025