The research project presented in EcoRedux 02 documents a larger disciplinary transformation, reflecting the intense socio-political concerns of the time and the collective fantasy that small technologies can become remedial tools to save the planet.
Parallel to the presentation of this historical archive, EcoRedux 02 explores the contemporary resurgence of ecological strategies in architectural imagination: it features new interpretations and ecological strategies of the historical material in the form of diagrams, drawings, animations, interviews with the architects, computer codes, cookbooks and instruction manuals.
Overall, EcoRedux 02 seeks tentative connections with an ‘elastic’ understanding of ‘ecology’, in a time when the term addressed not only ‘new naturalism’ and techno-scientific standards, but also systems theory: a recirculatory understanding of the world and its resources. This collection aims to enlighten current perceptions of sustainable design practices by depicting a shift from object (as in photovoltaic cells, solar panels, recycling devices, etc.) to method (a process-based understanding of materials and recirculation of world resources).
Curated and designed by Lydia Kallipoliti in collaboration with Anna Pla Catalá and the assistance of Amie Shao and Lydia Xynogala
Where: Espai 1 bis, DHUB, (Montcada, 12)
Date: 08.03 – 29.05.11
Time: Tuesdays to Fridays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays form 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
