Mutualism in Art and Architecture

Details: Philippine Pavilion’s Structures of Mutual Support Exhibition curated by Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes and GK Enchanted Farm Community
Details: Philippine Pavilion’s Structures of Mutual Support Exhibition curated by Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes and GK Enchanted Farm Community
Mutualism in Art and Architecture

A Hybrid Closing Reception at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia

Friday, November 19, 2021
9-10:30am ET (3-4:30 pm in Venice)

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Celebrating the Philippine Pavilion’s Structures of Mutual Support and Open Collectives: Architecture for an Equitable Digital Economy.

In both installations in Arsenale, film, architectural installations, and texts explore the relationship between the solidarity economy, art, and architecture. Art and architecture forge new cultural imaginaries, vocabularies, and civic structures to enable mutualist groups to flourish and gain visibility; so too, the co-creative process galvanizes its participants, inciting new imaginative futures. Join us for a cross-sector conversation.

Open Collectives

Featured in the Biennale Architettura 2021 and in Arsenale, Open Collectives is an immersive installation featuring digital platforms and architectural projects that seek to leverage the power of solidarity in order to strengthen economic sovereignty, housing affordability, communal self-determination, and mutual aid.

Open Collectives was initiated by Rafi Segal with Sarah Williams in collaboration with futurist Greg Lindsay and artist and ACT lecturer Marisa Morán Jahn.

Presenters
Architects Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. and Alexander Eriksson Furunes, Curators, Philippine Pavilion
Rafi Segal, Architect, Associate Professor, MIT and Marisa Morán Jahn, Artist/Filmmaker, Associate Dir of Integrated Design, The New School; Senior Researcher, MIT

Respondents

Arturo Escobar, Design Anthropologist, Author, Designs for the Pluriverse
Koray Caliskan, Economic Sociologist, Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management, The New School

The Open Collectives team is initiated by MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab founded and directed by architect Rafi Segal (back right), in collaboration with MIT Civic Data Design Lab director Sarah Williams (front), artist Marisa Morán Jahn (left), and futurist Greg Lindsay (not pictured here). Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn
A part of the Open Collectives Station at Biennale Architettura 2021, this installation showcases several architectural projects by Rafi Segal A+U that emphasize the shared spaces in their design and layout. Divided across four themes: labor, care, living and market, these drawings render the degree of sharing along a scale of colors from the most public: red, to a group share: pink, to semi-share: cream and to white denoting private space. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn
A part of the Open Collectives Station at Biennale Architettura 2021, this installation showcases several architectural projects by Rafi Segal A+U that emphasize the shared spaces in their design and layout. Divided across four themes: labor, care, living and market, these drawings render the degree of sharing along a scale of colors from the most public: red, to a group share: pink, to semi-share: cream and to white denoting private space. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn
Open Collectives is an immersive installation featuring digital platforms and architectural projects that seek to leverage the power of solidarity in order to strengthen economic sovereignty, housing affordability, communal self-determination, and mutual aid. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn
Open Collective station structure for the Venice Biennale Architettura 2021. Designed by Rafi Segal A+U, the station’s suspended single surface creates an open yet semi-enclosed space for learning about an emerging architecture for collectives around the world. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn
Open Collective station structure for the Venice Biennale Architettura 2021. Designed by Rafi Segal A+U, the station’s suspended single surface creates an open yet semi-enclosed space for learning about an emerging architecture for collectives around the world. Photo: Marisa Morán Jahn

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