2016 - 7th edition
THE NEXT ECONOMY
The 7th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam was entitled The Next Economy. In 2016, the IABR explored the part that spatial design can play in creating a city where the economy adds local value and focuses on societal issues, a city that uses natural and human capital in a sustainable way and responds to growing social inequality.
The public sphere plays a central part in the socially just city. The new urbanity combines entrepreneurship and citizenship; education and work merge, care and public life are connected. The exhibition in the Fenixloods featured more than 60 projects, ranging from new housing and work locations to new clean energy systems, new models for land development and new forms of collaboration, health care, and solidarity.
Curators
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Maarten Hajer - Chief Curator
Maarten Hajer is Professor of Urban Futures at the University of Utrecht and was Director–General of the PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency from 2008 to 2015. He is internationally renowned for his exploration of the relationships between public policies, urban development and environmental issues.
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Jandirk Hoekstra
Jandirk Hoekstra is a landscape architect. He studied Landscape architecture at Wageningen University and Composition at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He was active in the cultural sector as a programme maker for music events, theatre and cultural debate in Rotterdam. He worked at dS+V Rotterdam and at Heidemij Advies/ Arcadis. In 2016 he was director at H+N+S Landscape architects.
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Daan Zandbelt
Daan Zandbelt is an architect, urbanist and partner at De Zwarte Hond, an office for architecture and urbanism based in Rotterdam, Groningen and Cologne. From the Rotterdam office, he works with his team on complex urban projects that vary from regional strategies to precise architecture interventions. In 2015 - 2016 Zandbelt led the IABR–Atelier Rotterdam.
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Photo: Tim van de Velde Joachim Declerck
Joachim Declerck is an engineer-architect, founder and partner of Architecture Workroom Brussels (AWB)- European think-and-do tank for innovation in architecture, urban and territorial development. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Ghent (BE) since 2014.
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Michiel van Iersel
Michiel van Iersel is an urbanist and curator working at the intersection of the arts, architecture, (urban) design and heritage. In 2008 he co-founded Non-fiction, a collective of people with a common interest in public values and cultural production. In addition Van Iersel co-founded the international research foundation Failed Architecture.
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Freek Persyn
Freek Persyn is AN architect and urban planner. He is a founding partner of Brussels based office 51N4E, a design practice dealing with complex and urban situations. Using space production as an approach, 51N4E imagines and develops the transformations in society on various scales.
