Studio Other Spaces, the office founded by artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Sebastian Behmann, has created an installation with contributions from 50 participants of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Called Future Assembly, the installation illustrates an imaginary future that centre's the natural world in an international collaboration informed by the alliance of the United Nations (UN).
Top: Future Assembly was created with contributions from 50 Biennale participants. Above: a black ceiling fixture is suspended over the installation.
Studio Other Spaces created the project alongside six co-designers including Caroline Jones, Hadeel Ibrahim, Kumi Naidoo, Mariana Mazzucato, Mary Robinson, and Paola Antonelli.
Future Assembly responds to the UN's call to protect the environment. "As humankind faces a devastating pandemic and a triple planetary crisis ? climate change, biodiversity loss and severe degradation of air, land and water," said the secretary-general of the UN Anto?nio Guterres.
"We need to end our war on nature and begin to act more holistically to secure the health of the species, ecosystems and resources."
Contributions are hung across the exhibition space
The installation is comprised of three parts: the stakeholders, a More-Than-Human Chart and the Future Assembly World Map. The stakeholders are 50 living and non-living contributions from the participants of the Venice Architecture Biennale's local areas.
Contributions include fungi, ro...