Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
In Venezuela, experimentation with community self-management is emerging as a new political paradigm for urban planning. This approach seeks to consolidate organic urban growth and establish social cohesion based on integrated systems, rejecting the contradiction between formal and informal cities. The relationship between urban forces has developed operational strategies and practical research to consolidate human settlements, supporting the evolution of social dynamics through participatory processes.
Supermarket sweep… the Latvian pavilion which has been transformed into a minimart.
This contribution brings a little levity to the long trek through the halls of the Arsenale.
Choice as the basis of architectural process, the pop aesthetics emphasizing the languages of consumption as in Hamilton or Warhol: everything is structured by the dynamics of commerce.
Welcome to T/C Latvija, surely the most instagrammed installation of this edition of the Biennale
Latvia is reopening the archive boxes once again, reminding us (including the Biennial Presidency) of everything that has already been thought up and invented, and inviting us to place the most urgently needed products in the basket, to combine them with one another, and ultimately consume all the knowledge.
Fun, colourful and thought-provoking, it offers a tongue-in-cheek moment to the Arsenale sequence...