Learning from Venice – anticipating a constantly chancing landscape
Making the future flooding of inner-city rivers visible in the present, to architecturally and culturally revisit public space and the value and meaning of urban elements by which it is formed. We encouraged students to work on-site in the scale 1:1 and to work collectively, and to present their work all together in a final exhibition.
The Noordereiland, an island in the Maas river in Rotterdam, already on occasion has to deal with inundation. We chose this location, because it makes it easier to imagine flooding on an even more extreme scale. And Venice as a case study: a city where the seasonal fluctuations of water have become part of everyday life, and where a wide range of solutions have been developed in anticipatory ways that lead, sometimes unintentionally, to new uses of space and encounters.
2021/2022 S2
Type: Teaching
Where: Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design
Tutors: rotative studio (Alexandra Sonnemans and Caterina Viguera)
Students: Arianne Fleege, Wessel Geysels, Justus Schäfer, Ronja Dmoch, Milou van Zomeren, Quirine Hoek, Daan de Jong, Esmee van Beekhuizen
Invited guests conversation series: Estel Figueras, Ramon Landolt, Suze Milius, Alberto Pottenghi, Pavle Stamenovic, Daniel Fuchs
The Methods ‘On-Site Explorations’ and ‘Overlap Map’ are developed by Alexandra Sonnemans and Caterina Viguera (within rotative studio)
Overlapping present and future in an ‘Overlap Map’*Overlsapping present and future in an ‘On-Site Exploration’*‘On-Site Exploration’ by Arianne Fleege*We chose Venice as a first case of study and example, a city where seasonal fluctuations of the water have become part of everyday life and a large range of solutions have been developed in an anticipative way, that lead, sometimes unintentionally, to new uses of space and encounters.‘On-Site Exploration’ by Milou van Zomeren, capturing movements of the river*Diagram of uncertainty by Daan de Jong and Wessel GeyselsCollective exhibition, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture