ARCHITECTURE:Future Architecture-Landscape Of Care
European Architecture Program is a series of the most significant and interconnected architectural happenings and events in Europe. With the 2021 Creative Exchange, one of the key European events for networking and presenting architectural ideas, Future Architecture Platform has introduced a new season of its Architecture Program: Landscapes of Care. We invite you to participate in a series of over twenty of the most significant and interconnected architectural happenings and events in Europe.
By Dimitris Lempesis
Photo: Future Architecture Archive
The opening of this new program season follows the annual Call for Ideas, which aimed to register ideas and emerging creatives that will help shape the groundbreaking architectural happenings and events in 2021 that form the core of the European Architecture Program. European Architecture Program is a series of the most significant and interconnected architectural happenings and events in Europe. In her essay “Are Words Good Enough,” Amica Dall, an anthropologist and theoretician, and one of the founding members of the multidisciplinary London collective Assemble, draws on this year’s submissions to the Future Architecture Call for Ideas to provide an insightful contribution that considers the role of an architect, manifested via applications by young creatives, from a critical perspective: “Architecture as a discipline is struggling for a new language—a language which protects us from the grandiosity and hubris of the past, but which retains the capacity to be ambitious, specific, and hopeful. We need ways of talking about power, collectivity, and agency which are capable of making them more accurate descriptions of the present, of actually existing people, of diagnosing what prevents the change we seek, of sharing more nuanced proposals for action”. With their ambitious ideas, the Future Architecture emerging talents show great potential because young architects want to do more than create—they would like to open up space for a wider dialogue, inspire interaction, and create opportunities for collective reflection. Future Architecture Platform leveraged the program as a pan-European architecture platform to create and provide opportunities to develop the ideas of dialogue and critical thought for talented conceptual thinkers and practitioners in architecture. This year’s events under the umbrella title Landscapes of Care, which are already taking place, thus allow you to meet and follow the development of the most current ideas by emerging creatives and their contributions to the architecture of the future. The Future Architecture Call for Ideas is more than a competition; it is a platform that provides practitioners and conceptual thinkers with the opportunity to express their ideas and to be both seen and heard. A successful application represents the opportunity for emerging creatives to exchange their projects and proposals with peers from all over the world, as well as with high-profile institutions including museums, galleries, publishing houses, biennials, and festivals, all to assist them with finding avenues toward international recognition. For the 2021 Call for Ideas, has invited multidisciplinary emerging professionals from across the globe to apply with transformative projects related to our living environments to send us their completed projects and their theoretical or conceptual proposals for spatial, social, or cultural innovation, and to join our discussion about the Landscapes of Care. In comparison to previous years, Future Architecture Call for Ideas received a record number of 457 ideas from sixty-three countries, and we recorded 918 applicants in individual and group applicants, with projects tackling the environment, sociology, construction, infrastructure, the economy, urban planning, heritage, and other areas. We have selected twenty-seven authors and their ideas, which were presented at the 2021 Creative Exchange and will participate in the EU’s Future Architecture program.
Info: 2021 Season of Future Architecture Platform: Landscapes of Care, Duration: 1/5-31/10/2021, https://futurearchitectureplatform.org & https://futurearchitecturerooms.org
