2022 - 10th edition
IT'S ABOUT TIME
Fifty years after the publication of the Club of Rome’s report, the jubilee Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2022 took stock. It's About Time combined historical research (as of 1972) with inspiring practical examples (in 2022) and future scenarios (towards 2072). The works exhibited by architects, urban designers, artists, scientists, and landscape designers depicted the causes and consequences of climate change, but also offered perspectives for action.
The 10th edition of the IABR was more than a wake-up call. Rather than simply outlining a bleak worldview, it presented hopeful possibilities for new, more radical courses towards a livable future, and introduced radical, feasible transitions leading to a just and ecologically healthy world.
The 10th IABR presented three architecture exhibitions with more than 150 projects and offered a program of guided tours, (children’s) workshops, field trips, lectures, and debates.
Curators
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Derk Loorbach
Prof. Dr. Derk Loorbach (professor of Socioeconomic Transitions, director of DRIFT, and principal investigator of the Design, Impact, Transition (DIT) platform of the Erasmus University Rotterdam): ‘There are already transitions taking place on a small scale. We need to make those small steps visible to start seeing the big change.’
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Véronique Patteeuw
Dr. Ir. Véronique Patteeuw (lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et du Paysage Lille, visiting lecturer at the KU Leuven and EPFL Lausanne and academic editor of OASE): ‘It’s about a piece of forgotten history. How can the experiments of the 1970’s help us to face the challenges of today?’
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Léa-Catherine Szacka
Dr. Léa-Catherine Szacka (co-founder of PASZA Platform for Architectural Research, senior lecturer in Architectural Studies at the University of Manchester and visiting lecturer at The Berlage, Delft University of Technology): ‘We are showing the younger generation that the future is already here. We have to start now.’
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Peter Veenstra
Peter Veenstra, co-founder of LOLA Landscape Architects (with Cees van der Veeken and Eric-Jan Pleijster): ‘IT’S ABOUT TIME is a confrontation with time pressure. We need to slow down the growth and speed up the solution.’
