Davor Ereš, Jelena Mitrović, Petar Laušević
https://doi.org/10.60152/k3cotgq4
Abstract: This paper analyzes the exhibition project “UNRAVELING: New Spaces” at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. The exhibition is taken as a case study to explore cross-disciplinary collaboration within architectural practice. The theoretical framework of the exhibition posits that local legacies hold universal relevance. Specifically, the form-making skill of hand-knitting and the technological innovation of the Belgrade Hand, the world’s first robotic bionic hand. These seemingly disparate localities demonstrate – through the exhibition project – how collective, empathic, and idealistic practices are fundamental to disciplinary transformations. The core discourse is framed around the hand as an extension organ of mind and as a metaphor for the visibility of the border between natural and artificial intelligence. This set-up embodies collectiveness as a cross disciplinary approach, claiming that it is a platform of exploration, learning and invention. Within this interpretation project collectiveness is developed as a form of interdisciplinary cooperation. The project is further interpreted as a proposition to rethink architectural production through a process of cross disciplinary learning, which unfolds via experimenting, prototyping, and producing the exhibition form itself. The paper examines the particular international collaboration between architects, designers, programmers, and engineers as a model for inventive architectural practice, and further, it analyzes the design process of kinetic and cyclical architectural form. This form specifically employs materiality and energy to foreground a more comprehensive interpretation of architectural temporality, where cycles of composition and decomposition are projected simultaneously. The analysis offers a critical reflection on collectiveness, adaptability, and experimental learning as crucial drivers for the necessity of the up-coming architectural disciplinary change (Ereš, Mitrović 2025).
Keywords: interdisciplinary practice, exhibition project, architectural temporality, kinetic form
How to cite this Paper (Harvard referencing style):
Ereš, D., Mitrović, J. and Laušević, P. (2025) ‘Unraveling New Spaces: The Exhibition as an Interdisciplinary Project‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 111–116.
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