One of my favourite pavilions at the Venice Biennale was the Danish one. Its design is all pop, flashy and fun (just as i like them), its central themes (China and sustainability) are certainly very trendy these days but its approach is everything but superficial.
The Danish Pavilion, called CO-EVOLUTION, is a joint project between Danish architects and university students and professors in China who reflected on the question: How to improve people’s living conditions without exhausting the very resources needed to sustain a better life?
Within the next 20 years, some 400 million Chinese citizens are expected to join the global urbanization race and the Chinese government plans to create better living conditions for its 1.3 billion-strong population. The rapid urbanization processes currently underway in China are increasing consumption of natural resources, putting tremendous pressure on the environment.
The teams came up with four ideas for dealing with sustainability […]
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