2020 Future Architecture Fellows announced

12.2.2020–13.2.2020

The Future Architecture Platform proudly announces the final list of selected ideas that will be invited to the 2020 Creative Exchange, which is taking place on 12 and 13 February 2020 at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. This year, the Future Architecture 2020 Call for Ideas received a record of 433 ideas from fifty-three different countries, and it welcomed over eight hundred applicants in individual and group applications.

Selected creatives

The members of the Future Architecture Platform voted for twenty entrants and their ideas, such as Critical Practice by Love Di Marco, Tobias Hentzer Dausgaard and Arya Arabshahi (London, UK), Unfolding Pavilion by Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Davide Tommaso Ferrando and Sara Favargiotti in collaboration with Ana Victoria Munteanu, Eliza Rabiniuc Mocanu, Magda Vieriu and Octavian Hrebenciuc (Trento, Italy) and Ways of Treating Buildings in Order to See Them by Agustin Schang (New York City, USA). In addition, last year’s alumni selected four ideas and their creators, among them 35 Meridians of Radical Rituals by Alkistis Thomidou and Gian Maria Socci (Berlin, Germany) and Agro Commune by Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee (New York City, USA). The selection of twenty-five creatives is completed with the public’s favourite idea. Through online voting, the followers of the Future Architecture website and social media selected the research collective pais(vi)agem, consisting of Enrico Porfido and Claudia Sani (Barcelona, Spain).

Parrallel to the Future Architecture Call for Ideas, a writers call was hosted by FA member dpr-barcelona. The selected author for this second dpr-barcelona Writing’s Grant is Monique Besten (the Netherlands) with her proposal The Wanderer.

Creative Exchange The Creative Exchange is a two-day event at MAO in Ljubljana and is the central gathering of the Future Architecture Platform. The Creative Exchange consists of the Matchmaking Conference, Focus Talks and the Future Architecture Fair, and it is one of the most insightful annual gatherings about architecture, showcasing ideas and trends for the future development of the profession.

The twenty-five creatives selected will be invited to the Matchmaking Conference together with guests from the international architecture field. On the first day of the Creative Exchange, the selected twenty-five creatives will publicly present their work to the members of the platform and the audience, and on the second day all Future Architecture members will present their planned activities as part of the 2020 European Architecture Program.

Focus Talks As part of the Creative Exchange, Future Architecture holds several Focus Talks featuring international and leading architects as keynote speakers. Future Architecture is happy to announce this year’s speakers: Mariana Pestana, architect and curator of the Istanbul Design Biennial, Marina Otero Verzier, architect and director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Léa-Catherine Szacka, an architect, historian and critic, and the author of Biennials/Triennials: Conversations on the Geography of Itinerant Display, and Thomas Geisler, design curator and cultural producer, curator of the twenty-sixth Biennial of Design, BIO 26| Common Knowledge. The highlight of the fair is the Pitch Cocktails, an evening event that is part of the official program, where all the fair participants will introduce themselves and their work in short five-minute public presentations. Cocktails are included!

Future Architecture Fair During the Creative Exchange, the Future Architecture Fair will provide a forum for architects and architecture offices, institutions, producers, curators and other professionals to present their projects, connect and collaborate, and stay up to date on the latest developments in architecture. Join the Future Architecture Platform on 12 and 13 February in Ljubjana and be part of the future of architecture!

**Creative Exchange 2020 (hosted by Future Architecture Platform)

12 - 13 February 2020

Opening hours: 09:00 - 21:00

Free admission

Location

Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Rusjanov trg 7, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

About the Future Architecture Platform

Co-funded by the Europe Union’s Creative Europe Programme, Future Architecture is the first pan-European platform of architecture museums, festivals, and producers, presenting ideas on the future of cities and architecture to the general public. Future Architecture is more than a competition. Future Architecture is changing the very foundation of architecture in Europe and beyond. Exploring boundaries. Breaking down walls. Building new systems. Forming new coalitions. Providing talented conceptual thinkers and practitioners with opportunities to speak up and to be seen and heard.

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