SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT Exhibition
Welcome to the former Hunter Douglas factory halls. This place breathes history, while the future remains wide 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? You can 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 resulting consequences, cities, landscapes, and buildings are also suffering from changes in the flows of water, energy, and raw materials. This is largely the result of reliably rapid economic growth, with the depletion of the earth and social injustice as a consequence. Hence the urgent appeal: SOS. In these historic factory halls, we give a voice to designers who move beyond short-term thinking. They do not let themselves be held back by the daily grind and create space for innovative ideas for the future. In a creative way, they show how things can be done differently: no financial interests for a small group, but solutions from which the entire society benefits in the long term.
With SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT, we stimulate your imagination, creating space to dream of a better future.
Check all participants of SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT
AIR & Dérive
Decentralisation and privatisation: spatial development in relation to governance
Babini Geysen Architects
Nobody Leaves the Party.
Bas Princen
Radical Venacular
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Act of Law: Space Regulators towards
Circularity on the Edge
Circularity on the Edge
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
Laurin Böhm
Flössern – in fluent
LMNL office & Studio Anna Zan
A New Age of Stone
Merve Berdir
Repair and Care in Entangled Landscapes
Miriam Sentler
Energy Islands / Mining Myths / Fossil Fuel Mnemosyne
Nicky Assmann
Solaris
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
Spatial Justice for Palestine Network NL
School of Spatial Justice
Studio Folder
Fragments of Democracy I
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