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This is an audio-introduction to the exhibition To Build Law, on show at the Canadian Centre for Architecture from 10 December 2024 to 22 May 2025.
According to a 2020 report by the UN Environment Programme, the construction industry accounts for at least 38 per cent of carbon emissions globally, operating with narrow methods geared toward profit. Buildings are held as assets, torn down, and redeveloped, with limited consideration of community and environmental impacts. Meanwhile, housing crises escalate. Evidently, a systemic shift in the way we build and value our built environment is urgently needed.
To Build Law follows bplus.xyz (b+) and station.plus (s+) as they establish a policy lab, HouseEurope!, to propose industry reforms and shift cultural norms. The film closely observes the b+ team during various phases of conceptualization and development of a European Citizens' Initiative meant to incentivize renovation over demolition and new construction. Through this bottom-up legal tool, architecture becomes an open process of establishing partners, drafting legislation, filming stories, strategizing communications, coordinating campaigns, collecting votes, and building a movement.
To Build Law is the second chapter of Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of engagement with new project sites.
"Market Landscape" is an investigation into the urban ecologies of two major financial districts: Hong Kong's Central District and London's Canary Wharf. Entangled by histories of empire stretching from the early stages of industrial capitalism up to the present day, this project explores how seemingly mundane design features—like parks, plantings, and land works—reveal new frameworks to understand the inner workings of global financial markets and their wider planetary impact. In doing so, the project aims to contribute to the knowledge of architecture's role in the Anthropocene. (38 min English)
To learn more on the project: https://www.cca.qc.ca/marketlandscape
« Le paysage du marché » est une enquête sur les écologies urbaines de deux grands quartiers financiers : le district central de Hong Kong et Canary Wharf à Londres. Empêtré dans des histoires impériales s'étalant des premiers stades du capitalisme industriel jusqu'à nos jours, ce projet explore comment des caractéristiques de conception apparemment banales, telles que parcs, parterres et terrassements, révèlent de nouveaux cadres pour comprendre le fonctionnement des marchés financiers mondiaux et leur impact planétaire plus large. Ce faisant, ce projet vise à contribuer à la connaissance du rôle de l'architecture dans l'anthropocène. (38 minutes, Anglais)
Pour en apprendre plus sur le projet : https://www.cca.qc.ca/fr/evenements/70873/le-paysage-du-marche
The audio documentary "Off:Re:OnShore" explores the legacy of industrial offshoring, the effects of corporate actions on the built environment of labour, and the role of architecture in bringing closer ideas of work and the good life. This documentary was conceived and developed by Victor Muñoz Sanz during his residence at the Canadian Centre for Architecture as 2015–2016 Emerging Curator. (35min. In English)
L'audiodocumentaire « Off:Re:OnShore » explore les legs de la délocalisation industrielle, les effets des actions corporatives sur l'environnement bâti du travail, ainsi que les manières dont l'architecture peut réconcilier travail et bien-être. Ce documentaire a été conçu et élaboré par Victor Muñoz Sanz lors de sa résidence au Centre Canadien d'Architecture à titre de Commissaire émergent 2015–2016. (35 min. En anglais)
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