NOW HERE THERE - ROMANIAN PAVILION - BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2023

The Romanian Pavilion is a generator of ideas, bringing to the fore the creation journey of innovations or inventions born only as a result of interdisciplinary collaboration. Ideas and objects become the ingredients of a dialogue about the future in which the visitor is welcomed to participate by exploring the space of the pavilion.

The visitor interactively explores 4 research areas: Romanian Technical Innovations and Inventions, 100 lateral pedagogies, the Genetic Seed Bank and the Co-Future Installation as an activator of ideas, all representing a way of education through research, innovation, and social activation, seen as new solutions to respond to a people- and context-centered future.

The Romanian Pavilion 2023 Venice Biennale of Architecture

The Pavilion explores four research and interaction areas

Forgotten Innovations

Are original technical artefacts exhibited in the pavilion: the world's first aerodynamic vehicle with wheels inside the body of the car, an electric vehicle from the beginning of the 20th century or concept-installations for tidal energy are just some of the artefacts.

The Instant Garden

Is an invitation to imagine architectural experiments intertwined with agricultural practice, in the context of the future food crisis. The genetic seed bank becomes the leitmotif of this experiment.

The 100 Lateral Pedagogies

Are contemporary case studies through which the practice of architecture expands the field through research, activation and education, offering inclusive solutions to a complex human environment. These case studies are just a few examples of a new design practice in Romania, which, depending on the context, develops new answers for particular situations.

Co-Future Installation

Entering the pavilion, visitors are invited to a dialogue of ideas and a spatial brainstorming, completed with a receiver-installation in which visitors have the opportunity to share, at the end of the exhibition, an idea about the future, through a drawing or a few words.

Image from the Henri Coanda photo archive of the National Technical Museum

While today more than a billion people do not have access to drinking water, about 70 years ago a Romanian inventor, Henri Coanda, created a desalination plant meant to turn seawater into drinking water only using solar energy: in 12 hours,1600 liters of drinking water were processed by means of an 8 sqm installation exposed to the sun. Unfortunately, the innovation stagnated in the functional prototype phase, being blocked for bureaucratic reasons.

NOW, HERE, THERE Romanian Technical Innovations and Inventions, 100 lateral pedagogies, the Genetic Seed Bank and the Co-Future Installation Edition 18

FORGOTTEN INNOVATIONS

01 AERODYNAMICS - PERSU CAR, 1923 02 ELECTRIC - NAG ELECTRIC MACHINE, 1904 03 RECYCLING - GOAT CAR, 1980s 04 MOBILITY - FLYING BACKPACK, 1950s 05 WATER - COANDA DESALINATION INSTALLATION, 1954 06 WAVES - TIDE INSTALLATION, 1980s 07 WIND - WIND TURBINE, 1980s 08 HOUSING - COANDA INNOVATIONS, 1950s 09 FOOD - SPIRULINA FACILITY, 2000s

Reed transport on the Danube Delta canals, 2022

LATERAL PEDAGOGIES

Interdisciplinary projects on Community, Regenerations and Back to Schools

REGENERATION

BACK TO SCHOOLS

COMMUNITY

Instant garden: Genetic seed bank Salighny silos Urban agriculture

Cropping activities can be creatively adapted to experimental contemporary living: we produce housing, we also produce food. If the land still allows crops to grow in the countryside, how can we produce healthy food in an extremely dense urban environment? There are crops that can be grown in polluted environments, improving the place.

INSTANT GARDEN

genetic seed bank

Land-cultivating activities can be creatively adapted to experimental contemporary living: we produce housing, we also produce food. If the countryside still allows crops to grow, how can we produce healthy food in an extremely dense urban environment? There are plant crops that can be grown in polluted environments, resisting and improving the place.