CZ2: Vize pro budoucnost České republiky
The exhibition CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech Republic will present on February 15, 2024, at 6 PM in the Brno Marketplace the visions of students led by the co-founder of the architectural studio MVRDV, Winy Maas, and educators from five universities, including Michal Palaščak and Szymon Rozwałka from the Faculty of Architecture at VUT Brno. More than 150 students from the Czech Republic and beyond will present their proposals for growing mushrooms in abandoned mines, expanding arable land onto the roofs of panel buildings, and other themes outlining the development of landscapes and cities through projects and opinions placed on a large-format map of the Czech Republic. As part of the exhibition, a discussion roundtable on seeking visions for Moravia will take place on March 13, 2024, at 6 PM. This discussion is part of a broader challenge of the entire exhibition—a call to create a stable national platform for defining the visions of the republic, which will enable a multidisciplinary debate across the broader expert and lay public.
The unique collaboration of students from the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology and the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University in Liberec, ARCHIP, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, and the think tank The Why Factory represents reflection on the future of the Czech Republic and brings hundreds of ideas for reforestation, national parks, industrial production, transportation infrastructure, housing, demographics, population density, ecology, sociology, or economics.
“Collaboration based on university institutions from the Czech Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands represents in many ways the perspective of the emerging generation of architects, for whom the European interconnected space is a matter of course and a lived reality. For this reason, it is possible to view the project as a message from young Europeans who intensely perceive the challenges of our time, especially those related to the ongoing climate change and the socio-economic and political shifts associated with it,” comments Radek Suchánek, dean of FA VUT.
“An important feature of the visions we will find here is their optimism. An optimism that is almost naive. An optimism that is so desperately needed here and now, needed in Czech society, which all too often struggles with the pseudorational negation of any engagement, ambitions, or attempts to change the status quo. A negation that, at its core, is dictated by fear. A fear that is known today all over the world, but here over the Vltava, Morava, and Odra rivers, much stronger and more dangerous. As architects and urbanists, we are aware of this fear in our profession. We believe that it not only weakens us but also, perhaps above all, transforms us,” says Szymon Rozwałka, adding, “we need a new awakening, a new tuning, a new sensitivity, without which new thinking cannot emerge. We would be pleased if CZ2 contributed to such awakening.”
CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech Republic builds on Winy Maas's previous work in his capacity as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague, where the traveling exhibition had its premiere. It then moves to the spaces of the Marketplace in Brno's Vegetable Market. Other stops will include the new cultural quarter Automatic Mills in Pardubice, the Colors of Ostrava festival in Ostrava, and then Prague Castle. Each installation stop aims to stimulate discussions with local experts across sectors and the broader public about the future of the country. The large-format map with visions then serves as the first version of a platform for this debate. A platform that in the future will enable the entire nation to share and shape its own direction in an inclusive and impartial manner.
The exhibition is held under the patronage of the governor of the South Moravian Region, Jan Grolich, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The unique collaboration of students from the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology and the Czech Technical University in Prague, the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University in Liberec, ARCHIP, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, and the think tank The Why Factory represents reflection on the future of the Czech Republic and brings hundreds of ideas for reforestation, national parks, industrial production, transportation infrastructure, housing, demographics, population density, ecology, sociology, or economics.
“Collaboration based on university institutions from the Czech Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands represents in many ways the perspective of the emerging generation of architects, for whom the European interconnected space is a matter of course and a lived reality. For this reason, it is possible to view the project as a message from young Europeans who intensely perceive the challenges of our time, especially those related to the ongoing climate change and the socio-economic and political shifts associated with it,” comments Radek Suchánek, dean of FA VUT.
“An important feature of the visions we will find here is their optimism. An optimism that is almost naive. An optimism that is so desperately needed here and now, needed in Czech society, which all too often struggles with the pseudorational negation of any engagement, ambitions, or attempts to change the status quo. A negation that, at its core, is dictated by fear. A fear that is known today all over the world, but here over the Vltava, Morava, and Odra rivers, much stronger and more dangerous. As architects and urbanists, we are aware of this fear in our profession. We believe that it not only weakens us but also, perhaps above all, transforms us,” says Szymon Rozwałka, adding, “we need a new awakening, a new tuning, a new sensitivity, without which new thinking cannot emerge. We would be pleased if CZ2 contributed to such awakening.”
CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech Republic builds on Winy Maas's previous work in his capacity as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague, where the traveling exhibition had its premiere. It then moves to the spaces of the Marketplace in Brno's Vegetable Market. Other stops will include the new cultural quarter Automatic Mills in Pardubice, the Colors of Ostrava festival in Ostrava, and then Prague Castle. Each installation stop aims to stimulate discussions with local experts across sectors and the broader public about the future of the country. The large-format map with visions then serves as the first version of a platform for this debate. A platform that in the future will enable the entire nation to share and shape its own direction in an inclusive and impartial manner.
The exhibition is held under the patronage of the governor of the South Moravian Region, Jan Grolich, and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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