2022
Designing Urban Imaginaires
A Design Agenda for Active Engagement on Different Scales of Climate Care
The Imaginaries exhibition edition, previously at the 2021 MAK Vienna Biennale under the name of CLIMATE CARE — Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, will travel to the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) Shenzhen, China. The central theme is architectural responses and strategies in the context of global climate change.
A collection of ideas and concrete pilot projects calls upon people from various disciplines to collaborate and brainstorm together on whether there may be scenarios to lead us from the present unsustainable situation towards circular thinking and advocacy for radical care.
In a series of self-driven original pilot projects, a diverse group of distinguished and emerging designers, architects, urban designers, and planners expressed proactive initiatives engaging with real-world problems. In a souk-like scenography, projects show integrated and inclusive thinking; they range from a system of local drinking fountains on an urban scale to global infrastructure projects.
Design is all about ideas, determination, and endurance. This conceptual toolbox inspires a collaborative network through design by means of teaching, research, and concrete project development. It proposes a new design agenda with mindful design projects on different scales of Climate Care as of the 9th of December 2022 in Shenzhen.
Curatorship:
Melanie Fessel with Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak (urbanthinktank_next and ETH Zurich), Scenography by Vera and Ruedi Baur and Maren Hollmann
Exhibition and photo credits:
This exhibition presents parts of the CLIMATE CARE — Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, an exhibition of the MAK for Vienna Biennale for Change 2021, curated by Anab Jain, Hubert Klumpner, Marlies Wirth, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Scenography by Ruedi and Vera Baur, Maren Hollmann, Integral designers ∫ Paris
© 2021, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Exhibition Executive Team:
Shenzhen University — The Greater Bay Area Innovation Design Lab
Special thanks to Si Liu
Credits:
urbanthinktank_next www.uttnext.com
ETH Zurich, Chair of Architecture and Urban Design www.klumpner.arch.ethz.ch