Horizons - e-flux

Editors Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Peter Veenstra, e-flux Architecture

Contributors Tim Ingold, Gökçe Günel, Stephanie Wakefield, Glenn Dyer, Paul Bouet, Joost Vervoort, Rahel Aima

Architecture has long been one of the most powerful means of imagining, visualizing, and constructing futures. Like a projectile, the architectural project is thrown forward, reaching into and determining the conditions of what is to come. Time, in this sense, is a lens to understand how futures have been and can be made, successfully or not: spaces, materials, technologies, practices, organizations, rituals, and beyond. But where architecture ultimately lands— and what actually makes it to the end of the trajectory—can never be known fully in advance. Not to mention the multifarious costs and effects—the value—of bringing it down to earth.

Horizons is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam within the context of its 10th edition, IT’S ABOUT TIME: The Architecture of Change.

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7 essays

The Khaleeji Ideology

Rahel Aima

In Dubai’s industrial district of Al Quoz is a museum of failed futures. More precisely, it’s a warehouse filled with 3D-printed architectural models.

Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds

Joost Vervoort

Faced with climate change and other interconnected existential crises in the twenty-first century, it is quickly becoming a cliché to say that there is a strong need to “imagine better futures.”

Solar Extractivism

Paul Bouet

In February 2016, the solar power station of Ouarzazate was inaugurated in Morocco, on the north-western edges of the Sahara.

“Stop the Metaverse, Save the Real World”

Stephanie Wakefield and Glenn Dyer

For the last two years, a battle has gripped the southern rim of Atlanta. Much more than a local conflict or environmental defense activism, the battle for the South River Forest brings to the fore critical questions of urban life in the age of climate change.

New Wonders for the World

Gökçe Günel

In a context of uncertainty about the political, economic, and environmental future of the Arabian Peninsula, marketing and promotional material for NEOM plays a vital role, demonstrating that Saudi Arabia will diversify its economy away from fossil fuels and overcome possible ecological, social, and financial crises with the help of new design solutions, business models, and technological innovations.

The Turn of the Present and the Future’s Past

Tim Ingold

“Before” and “after”: no expressions can be more commonplace, yet none, when you come to think about it, can be more perplexing.

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Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Peter Veenstra, and e-flux Architecture

Architecture has long been one of the most powerful means of imagining, visualizing, and constructing futures. Like a projectile, the architectural project is thrown forward, reaching into and determining the conditions of what is to come. But where architecture ultimately lands— and what actually makes it to the end of the trajectory—can never be known fully in advance. Not to mention the multifarious costs and effects—the value—of bringing it down to earth.

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Extractivism, Futures, Infrastructure

Horizons is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.

Contributors

Derk Loorbach, Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Peter Veenstra, and e-flux Architecture Editorial
Tim Ingold The Turn of the Present and the Future’s Past
Gökçe Günel New Wonders for the World
Stephanie Wakefield and Glenn Dyer “Stop the Metaverse, Save the Real World”
Paul Bouet Solar Extractivism
Joost Vervoort Imagination Infrastructuring for Real and Virtual Worlds
Rahel Aima The Khaleeji Ideology

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