OPEN (2022)

Client:
Aarhus School of Architecture

Title:
Behind The Scenes

Year:
2022

Venue:
Exner´s Plads

Co-curators:
Naima Callenberg
Asbjørn Staunstrup Lund

BEHIND THE SCENES
Open22 offered a space to learn, experience, feel, and connect, a space from which the unexpected could spring forth. Dedicated to both emerging and established architectural practices from Denmark and abroad, the programme consisted of 360° Round Talks, panel debates, lectures, performances, exhibitions, artistic interventions, and an open invitation to take over the scene.
Open22 staged and dissected the core of architecture from five different scenes and through various sustainable perspectives – from social sustainability, climate and resources. The scenes were set to actively engage with the spectators and the actors in a mixed performance of architecture, landscape and planning.
Open22 revealed, explored and questioned architectural processes within the built environment from Behind the Scenes. Driven by the desire to broaden our perception of current and future sustainable architecture, the festival witnessed the shady and hidden as well as the bright and visible sides of architectural practice. The festival offered a perspective on interconnectedness throughout the vast network of the architectural field, emphasizing new knowledge over existing experience.

The programme for Open22 was curated by Karen Kjaergaard, Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Aarhus School of Architecture, Naima Callenberg, architect, curator, and teacher at Chalmers University, and Asbjørn Staunstrup Lund, architect at Vandkunsten.

AMONG THE SPEAKERS WERE:
LESLEY LOKKO (GH), SÉBASTIEN MAROT (FR), CHARLOTTE MALTERRE-BARTHES (CH), OLAF GRAWERT OG JOLENE LEE FRA BRANDLHUBER (DE), ANGELIKA HINTERBRANDNER (DE), PALOMA GORMLY CULTURES (UK), LINA GHOTMEH (LB/FR), JOHANSEN AND SKOVSTED, FIVE DANISH CITY ARCHITECTS AND MANY MORE.