Biennale

It’s About Time

from September 22 to November 13, 2022

    • Ferro
    • Keileweg 26, Rotterdam
    • Keilezaal
    • Keileweg 9, Linnenbach

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. 

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It's About Time poster Design: Stahl-R design studio

Curators

    • Derk Loorbach
    • Véronique Patteeuw
    • Léa-Catherine Szacka
    • Peter Veenstra
    • Curatorial statement
    • Credits
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Activist pavilion ‘Energies of Repair’ by Encore Heureux. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot
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Accelerator pavilion, ‘Synthetic Cultures’ design studio 2050+. Photo: JacquelineFuijkschot.
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Ancestor pavilion, design studio Anupama Kundoo. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Tentoonstelling It's About Time. Foto: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Exhibition It's About Time. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Exhibition It's About Time. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Exhibition It's About Time. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Opening It's About Time. Photo: Jaqueline Fuijkschot.
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Installation ‘The Clock That Will Solve All the Problems in the World’ by Atelier van Lieshout. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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WLDRF during the opening of It's About Time. Foto: Jaqueline Fuijkschot.
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Exhibition It's About Time. Photo: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.
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Exhibition Future Generation: This is 2072. Photo: Jaqueline Fuijkschot.
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Tentoonstelling It's About Time. Foto: Jacqueline Fuijkschot.