The five exhibitions that have constituted the central and debate body of this edition,
"The Poetics of Reason", can be visited (and it is highly recommended if you have not done so yet) until early 2020.
As a main feature, the enormous work of the exhibitions has been translated into 5 books (the curators point out that they are not catalogs, but books to highlight the value of what has been done), which become an outstanding contribution to the contemporary debate about the future of the architecture.
The exhibitions, and their translation in books, are influenced the fundamental themes of our contemporaneity.
Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country's Side
The intense debate about the abandonment of the countryside, the disappearance of rurality as we knew it until now, or what is the same the process of meta-urbanization of the planet, has been the object of the first day of presentations, with a debate which has had as background the exhibition "Agriculture and Architecture: From the side of the Field / Agriculture and Architecture: Taking the Country's Side".
The exhibition, curated by the French philosopher
Sébastien Marot, presents an exhaustive compilation work with interesting reflections and inflections in the approaches that have usually been used to explain the global urbanism process of grow.
It includes the works on permaculture of Colin Moorcraft, the ideas of city and food of Carolyn Steel, or the ideas of David Holmgren and Joëlle Zask.
Agroecology and permaculture have evolved useful concepts and strategies for imagining a post-industrial technology based on a radical economy of energy and material resources. What if we consider permaculture not only as a kind of architecture? What about redefining architecture’s rationality and economy of means today?
The exhibition is structured in three main areas: a central space with seven sections, a large-scale illustration and a screening area for documentary films. “Taking the Country’s Side” is a reflexive and didactic attempt to reconnect architecture and agriculture and to emphasize lessons that contemporary architects and urbanists might draw from this school of thought and action.
The exhibition makes an intense diagnostic tour on the idea of city, architecture and agriculture to end with four possible situations of relationship between agriculture and urbanization.
