The Czech Pavilion Addresses the Difficulty of Precarious Working Situations on the 2023 Venice Structure Biennale

The Czech Pavilion Addresses the Difficulty of Precarious Working Situations on the 2023 Venice Structure Biennale

The Nationwide Pavilion of the Czech Republic presents the exhibition “The Workplace for a Non-Precarious Future” on the 18th Worldwide Structure Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition investigates present urgent points confronted by the architectural occupation and particularly by younger practitioners by asking the preliminary query: ”How can architects design a greater world in the event that they themselves work in a poisonous working system?.” The pavilion is commissioned by Helena Huber-Doudová and can current the works of exhibitors Eliška Havla Pomyjová, David Neuhäusl, and Jan Netušil. Because the Czech advert Slovak Pavilion on the Giardini della Biennale is underneath reconstruction, the Czech Republic will exceptionally use the Arsenale within the Artiglierie part as its exhibition house. The Czech and Slovak Pavilion in Giardini will serve solely as a digital hub to enhance the primary presentation.

The theme of the exhibition relies on the analysis report “Woking Situations of Younger Architects” that concluded in 2020 that nearly 50% of younger professionals work as freelancers for a single contractor with out employment advantages comparable to medical health insurance or social safety. The excessive proportion comes with different problematic indicators: 62% of younger architects work additional time, together with common or occasional work on weekends, and 32% would not have a daily or fastened revenue.

The precise exhibition is split into two components. “The Manufacturing unit” is a illustration of the established order of the occupation, a segmented manufacturing house the place workstations and white screens counsel an altar composition, with duties and hierarchies clearly outlined. An animated infographic of information and diagrams goals as an example the advanced working circumstances of younger architects within the Czech Republic. The second part is “The Laboratory,” an experimental house the place architects can provide the self-discipline a speculative and collective reinterpretation. By means of these interactive installations, the exhibition authors, architect, facilitator, and researcher Eliška Havla Pomyjová, architect David Neuhäusl and movement designer and professor Jan Netušil, goal to transcend the easy presentation of the present situation and search to seek out new options.

Architects are educated within the spirit of the occupation’s calling, the impetus to remodel the world by means of a single act of artistic genius. However how can we modify the world if we will’t present respectable working circumstances for ourselves? The Workplace for a Non-Precarious Future is an exhibition undertaking that metaphorically takes on the type of a Manufacturing unit and a Laboratory. The Manufacturing unit, as a dystopian setting, displays the damaging establishment of the occupation. The Laboratory supplies essential evaluation, instruments, and best-practice examples. As a work-in-progress house for exhibition guests and 10 residents, it provides cooperation, dialog, and hypothesis on the non-precarious way forward for the structure occupation.

Different nationwide pavilions have additionally introduced their exhibition themes, with a number of of them specializing in urgent social points affecting their respective nations. The Canadian Pavilion goals to attract consideration to the challenges generated by the housing disaster by means of an exhibition titled “Not for Sale!”. On the same word, the Türkiye Pavilion questions the accepted perceptions of unused buildings to be able to uncover extra hopeful proposals for the longer term, whereas the Bulgarian Pavilion has chosen to focus the exhibition as regards to depopulation, city decline, and rural flight, expressed by means of the picture of deserted colleges current within the nation.