An Atlas of Commoning, "Rights on Carpet" by Manuel Herz, Installtion für Swissnex, San Francisco, USA, 2017. © Manuel Herz Architekten

An Atlas of Commoning

Places of Collection Production

27 May 2022
 - 
20 Jun 2022
​FADU UdelAr Montevideo
Bv. General Artugas 1031
11200 Montevideo, Uruguay

The project An Atlas of Commoning by ifa questions prevailing social and political structures and searches for new forms of collective, yet pluralistic, governance, and aims to recapture and redefine the open and emancipatory space of "us" as a concept.

Companies such as Facebook, Airbnb and others, whose business models are based on the commercialization of social relationships, have transformed words like "community", "sharing" or "us" into empty concepts that no longer represent solidarity or a progressive social agenda, but rather form the basis for an emerging platform capitalism. This economic development is accompanied by a global political shift fueled by traditional community notions of identity and affiliation, exclusion and discrimination.

The project focuses on urban commons – here commons are to be understood as a set of practices dealing with the production and management of (material and immaterial) collective resources and spaces in general, rather than with the resources themselves, hence "commoning", the verb, takes center stage. It is a process that involves the spatial organization of the relationships between production and reproduction, ownership and access to resources. A process in which solidarity networks are created and individual and collective rights are redefined.

Montevideo prompts a dialogue on the capital city's and Uruguay's rich experience around cooperative housing. In a week-long workshop, students, researchers, professors and other actors will discuss its 50-year-old legacy of developing collective housing, its spatial and social transformations, its institutionalization via national housing policies, and its significance for the city and civic spaces at large. Over the course of the exhibition, local initiatives and positions from Montevideo will be documented and added to An Atlas of Commoning.

An Atlas of Commoning is an exhibition by the ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in cooperation with ARCH+ Journal for Architecture and Urbanism. The exhibition is realized in Montevideo in cooperation with the "Walter Gropius" - Chair (UBA, Fadu Buenos Aires - DAAD), Cultura_FADU_UdelaR, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Gothe-Institut Uruguay.

Curatorial team

Anh-Linh Ngo, Mirko Gatti, Christian Hiller, Max Kaldenhoff, Christine Rüb (ARCH+), Elke aus dem Moore (ifa), Stefan Gruber (CMU)

Research partners

School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh and TU Berlin, Institute of Architecture, Prof. Rainer Hehl

 

Open workshops will be held from 27.05. until 01.06.2022.

Next stop of the exhibition:

21.10. – 04.12.2022, MARQ. Museum of Architecture and Design in Buenos Aires, Argentinia

Exhibitions worldwide

With over 20 touring exhibitions currently travelling across the globe and with its diverse event programmes on contemporary art, the ifa links the German art scene with internationally active cultural creators and forms cooperations and networks. The projects, many of which were developed in co-creation with local partners, cover the various disciplines of modern and contemporary fine arts – from current themes in architecture, photography and design to Bauhaus and monographic exhibitions such as Rosemarie Trockel or Wolfgang Tillmans. These projects generate local meeting platforms and allow international perspectives on topics of global relevance. The ifa also provides loan exhibits to interested museums.

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