- Typology
- Film
- Project
- BB2040: Countryside - The Future ??? XXX
- Partner
AMO - BB2040 - c/o now
- Client
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- Support
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- year
- 2021
- Location
- BerlinBrandenburg, BerlinBrandenburg, Deutschland
- Rem Koolhaas is still the all-surpassing heroic figure of contemporary architecture. This is not the only reason why his followers and critics alike have watched with interest for years as the great urban explorer (Delirious New York) began to devote himself to the countryside, of all places. When the Countryside exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York, developed by his research team AMO, finally opened its doors in February, there was not even a month to see the exhibition before the museum closed due to the Corona pandemic. After the reopening, the international audience, that usually carries the contents of such projects to the world, stayed away for well-known reasons. In January 2021, a conversation initiated and arranged by Martin Pohl (Projekte International) took place between Anne M Schneider and Sebastian Bernardy (both from AMO's Countryside team) with BB2040 (David Bauer, Martin Pohl, Julia Dorn, Kriti Garg, Evelina Faliagka) and c/o now. Anne M Schneider and Sebastian Bernardy took the opportunity to introduce the exhibition, which was overshadowed by the pandemic, to explain its contents and to answer partly pre-coordinated questions from BB2040 and c/o now. c/o now edited, processed and "dramatized" the footage on behalf of BB2040.
- with contributions by
- AMO: Anne M Schneider, Sebastian Bernardy; BB2040: David Bauer, Martin Pohl, Julia Dorn, Kriti Garg, Evelina Faliagka; c/o now
- team c/o now
- Duy An Tran, Andrijana Ivanda, Tobias Hönig, Markus Rampl, Paul Reinhardt
- transcriptions
- Julia Dorn, Kriti Garg, Evelina Faliagka
- music
- Mirrorbirds
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Fig.___More information about "Countryside: The Future": https://www.oma.com/projects/countryside-the-future
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Fig.___Anne (sometimes Annie) Schneider is a California-born, American-Canadian architect, designer, researcher, and writer based in Rotterdam. She holds a Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from the University of California at Los Angeles.
For the last two years she has worked as a contributor to AMO, and focused on the countryside as the site of radical social and technological experimentation. At a time when the very notion of density is under attack and our cities are being devastated (by pandemics, by climate change, by inequality, and the less insidious but equally destructive forces of mass tourism) her work offers a unique perspective on our most fragile environments.
Anne Schneider operates in the realms that underpin capital “A”-Architecture; the context in which it operates, the people that inhabit it, and the material and labor processes that create it. If research identifies and diagnoses conditions, the logical next step is treatment. Not limited by scope, scale, or imagination, Anne Schneider is operating in the realm of what is and the realm of what could be.
In the course of her career she has collaborated with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, OMA/AMO, a Dutch architecture firm and think tank, the graphic designer Irma Boom, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Fully fluent in the technical requirements of the profession, she has spent the last three years surrounded by architects, but also by scientists, anarchists, classicists, survivalists, horticulturalists, journalists, and publicists. She’s become (beyond a designer) a team leader, researcher, reporter, curator, bookmaker, documentarian, photographer, writer, and professor.
Many of her skills and experiences are difficult to categorize (for the ones she could, please see the attached CV). What her resume omits is this: the ability to stay cool under intense pressure; to lead the tight-knit collaboration of a small team while managing the input of two-dozen contributors; the creativity of late-night canteen raids; the ability to find WiFi on safari in Kenya; to remake a powerpoint presentation stuck in grid-lock traffic thirty minutes late to a lecture while carsick; the intellectual agility to provoke, defend, and advocate in an intensive brainstorming session; the methodical attention to big-picture and small-detail; and the ability to atomize seemingly insurmountable tasks into checked-off “done” boxes.
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Fig.___Sebastian Bernardy is an architect, designer and researcher based in Rotterdam after having worked and studied in Berlin and Delft, collaterally being co-founder of Eventually Made.
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