03/07/2023
With its story-like narrative quality, the exhibition has been divided into six parts to create and transmit both a moment and a process to the viewer. With 89 participants, even if the structure borrows its format from art exhibitions, it differs from them in critical ways, which often go unnoticed. Aside from the desire to tell a story, questions of production, resources and representation are central to how an architecture exhibition comes into the world, yet are rarely acknowledged or discussed. From the outset, it was clear that the essential gesture of The Laboratory of the Future would be “change.” However, what does it mean to be “an agent of change”? Aside from the desire to tell a story, questions of production, resources and representation are central to the way an architecture exhibition comes into the world, yet are rarely acknowledged or discussed. In architecture, particularly, the dominant voice has historically been a singular, exclusive voice, as though we have been listening and speaking in one tongue only. Therefore, the “story” that this year’s architecture exhibition tells completes the incomplete that used to be told. Characterised by positive ambitions, this narrative aims towards a future in which the innate way of thinking that distinguishes people will change.
