Rahul Mehrotra with Ranjit Hoskote

Architecture has not translated the opportunities that the multiple transitions we are experiencing today offer to generate forms of congenial, liveable futures. The ‘practice of architecture’ has been obsessed with permanence through imagining absolute solutions. To make the shift to transitionary design thinking would mean recognising the interconnectedness of social, economic, political, and natural systems to address problems at all levels of the spatiotemporal scale in ways that could make life on our planet sustainable.
The ambition of the installation is to highlight the importance of simultaneously designing, practising, thinking, and exploring through various modes and methods. It is designed as a threshold to highlight the multidisciplinary, multimodal, and multi-scalar work of Rahul Mehrotra. The installation emphasises temporality and hybridisation through four categories: Advocacy, Practice, Research, and Teaching. To emphasise temporality and waste reduction, material is reused from Mehrotra’s previous Biennale Architettura installations.

Authorial collaborators
Isabel Oyuela-Bonzani (Designer)
Technical collaborators
Santiago Aurelio Mota (Video Production)
Team
Pranav Thole (Research and Production)
With the additional support of
RMA Architects, Architecture Foundation, India, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University