Despite persistently addressing global thematic urgencies that concern all—climate change, inequality, and other injustices— we face a painful reality that remains unimpressed and whose attention is waning. We need to acknowledge a growing disconnect between visitors to the city and the “professional” international world of architecture and design. We need to look beyond hosting excellent events, exhibitions, manifestos, editorials, or ambassadorships that boast “our” values, towards creating more immediate intervention and interaction currently overlooked; zones of genuine overlap of skills, desires and ambitions. Bursting Bubbles departs from this premise in two pragmatic directions: How can architects reinject themselves into the veins of mass population in a productive way, and inversely, how can what is presented become more accessible to others? Bursting Bubbles features reinventions of the most cheap and popular souvenirs in Venice by architects and designers. It also includes The Ultimate Biennale Companion app, which uses large language models to make exhibition content at the Biennale easier to navigate and understand for visitors.
Participants
VOLUME AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS
Authorial Collaborators
Circular Souvenirs: Falsework, ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles), XML, Superuse studios, Inside Outside, Maison H, Nudus, Studio Nauta, La-di-da with Marc Barreda & Re3 Glass, Paolo Cardini, MANN; The Ultimate Biennale Companion: Innervation
Technical Collaborators
Marieke van den Heuvel, MANN, with VOLUME (Installation Design)
Team
VOLUME: Stephan Petermann, Francesco Degl’innocenti, Maria Mazzanti, Lilet Breddels, Xi Zhang;
Innervation: Tyler Kolody, Jameson Jones- Doyle, Goda Go, and Jon Nuss.
Supporters
Creative Industries Fund NL; Archis; Nieuwe Instituut; Foundation for Architecture ETS
