A team of Italian and Dutch professionals announced at the opening of the Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia the need to define new possible paths for architecture and its social role. Many professionals are joining the cause, revealing a changing direction in the use of time in architectural design.
Time for Impact, curated by Gianpiero Venturini together with Marthijn Pool and in collaboration with AiD, is one of the seven projects financed by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome after a call, titled ?Sfide delle Città,” was launched last year. Its objectives were announced during the vernissage of the biennale in an open discussion at the Serra dei Giardini.
The project is straightforward in its structure: on one side, professionals pledge their time; on the other side, design missions are collected. But it represents a great challenge in itself because it aims at reallocating design resources. In tune with the grassroots approach of Alejandro Aravena?s just inaugurated Architecture Biennale, titled ?Reporting From the Front,? Time for Impact founds its strength on the extended network of relations it is building among the younger and more independent designers. Building networks is also at the basis of New Generations? approach that explores professional models that may counterbalance the big names of world architecture. ?Why does the architecture industry invest huge amounts of creativity and time in design competitions, know...