organized by ARCH+ / SUMMACUMFEMMER / BÜRO JULIANE GREB in collaboration with the Sto-Foundation’s Venice Biennale LAB and AIT-Dialog
with RWTH Aachen, University of Antwerp, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, TU Braunschweig, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, PBSA Düsseldorf, Università di Genova, TU Graz, HFBK Hamburg, Leibniz Universität Hannover, TU Kaiserslautern, HfG Karlsruhe, KIT Karlsruhe, KU Leuven, MSA Münster, Università Iuav di Venezia, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, ETH Zurich, as well as trades apprenticeship providers
location: Venice, Italy
www.openformaintenance.net
https://openformaintenance-depot.net
Instagram: @germanpavilionvenice
During the Biennale, the curators, in cooperation with the Sto-Foundation’s Venice Biennale Lab series and AIT-Dialog, organized a workshop program that seeks to prove a fundamental idea of Open for Maintenance: Only a social turn in architecture will lead us to sustainable practice. For the program, architecture students and apprentices of the trades work with local organizations on specific projects in Venice that focus on the care, repair, and maintenance of existing buildings, as well as valorization and recognition of the work involved. Participants will upgrade sanitary facilities, build ramps, design furniture for the community, paint fences, and repair roofs.
The program supports existing material and social (infra)structures counteracting the negative effects of Venice’s commercialization and actively promoting the social inclusion of underprivileged groups. The fully equipped workshop and material repository in the German Pavilion serve as a productive infrastructure and a starting point for the interventions around the city. The participants live together during the workshops’ duration, promoting dialogue which will be consolidated by a networking event in the fall of 2023.
RENOVATE A SQUATTED FLAT, Laboratorio Occupato Morion with Sto-Stiftung, Verband Farbe Gestaltung Bautenschutz Hessen, Fachschule Farbtechnik Hamburg, Staatliche Fachschule für Farbe und Gestaltung München, Ferdinand Braun Schule, Fulda – Staatliche Fachschule für Farb- und Lacktechnik, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Schule, Berlin – Oberstufenzentrum für Gestaltung, Fachschule Farb- und Lacktechnik Hildesheim, Schule für Farbe und Gestaltung, Stuttgart
BUILDING A BAR, at Laboratorio Climatico Pandora with Centro Sociale Rivolta Marghera and Sozialgenossenschaft Bellevue di Monaco, Munich
BUILDING A MOBILE TICKET BOOTH, at Campo Sportive Jacopo Reggio Lido with RWTH Aachen and IUAV Venezia
Implementing a Waterless Sanitary Infrastructure at S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice with Demo Working Group and students of MSA Münster, PBSA Düsseldorf, IUAV Venice
location: Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy
In a collective process, students from PBSA Düsseldorf, MSA Münster and Università luav di Venezia design, plan, and implement an inclusive waterless sanitary infrastructure for S.a.L.E Docks, an independent space for art and political activism in Venice.
Since 2007, the abandoned salt warehouse has been squatted by a group of activists and is now run by volunteer cultural workers, artists, and students. S.a.L.E. Docks seeks to reverse the processes of privatization of the arts by addressing a number of unresolved problems: the relationship between cultural capital and increasing precarity, the neoliberal use of art as a means to contain critical imagination and thinking, as well as the interdependency of art, finance, real estate, and gentrification.
Like many other squats in Venice, S.a.L.E. docks lacks proper sanitary infrastructure; access to municipal services is conditioned on legal tenancy or ownership. The project is therefore based on a waterless system and be realized with left-over material from the Biennale Arte 2022. Students experiment in planning without exact knowledge of the available material as well as dealing with the social issues connected to the topic of personal hygiene, like dis_ability and gender and race.
REPAIRING A COMMUNITY CENTER at Portineria di Quartiere Mestre with Biennale Urbana Venice, ETICity Venice, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, UdK Berlin and IUAV Venezia
PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING AGRICULTURE AND VEGETATION on Vignole Island with VERAS, TU Berlin and IUAV Venezia
MAINTAINING EXISTING COMMUNAL SPACES in Santa Marta with Assemblea Social per la Casa Venezia, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Stadt. Berufsschule für Holztechnik und Innenausbau Munich and IUAV Venezia
BELLE ETTAGE BELLE ALTANA at S.a.L.E. Docks with KU Leuven and IUAV Venezia
CREATING A MEETING PLACE at Campo Sportivo Jacopo Reggio Lido with ETH Zürich, Universiteit Antwerpen and IUAV Venezia
TRASHLATION – UPCYCLING VIGNOLE LABORATORY with VERAS, IUAV Venezia and Rebiennale/R3B
MAINTAINING THE GERMAN PAVILION with Alanus Hochschule Alfter and IUAV Venezia
MAINTAINING SPACES FOR WINEMAKING at San Michele Island with Laguna net Bicchiere Venice, RWTH Aachen and IUAV Venezia
REPAIRING A SOCCER CLUB at Campo Sportivo Jacopo Reggio Lido, RPTU Kaiserslautern and IUAV Venezia
SPREAD THE READING PROJECT on Giudecca Island with Rebiennale/R3B, RPTU Kaiserslautern and IUAV Venezia
REPAIRING A SHIPYARD at Cantiere Nautico Casaril with Università di Genova, AdbK Munich and IUAV Venezia
PUBLIC DESIGN SUPPORT at Casette neighborhood with Assemblea Sociale per la Casa Venezia, HFBK Hamburg and IUAV Venezia
MAINTAINING A COMMUNITY GARDEN in Santa Marta with Assemblea Sociale per la Casa Venezia, Leibniz Universität Hannover and IUAV Venezia
RENOVATING A COMMON MEETING SPACE at Spazio Punch with Baukreisel e.V. Berlin, TU Graz, KIT Karlsruhe and IUAV Venezia
RESTORING A BOAT at FAP Cantiere Nautico with Il Viaggio di Scoperta Venice, TU Graz and IUAV Venezia
SPECULATIVE FUTURES: VENICE CASE with AHO Oslo and IUAV Venezia
UTOPIA AS PRACTICE with HfG Karlsruhe, HfK Bremen, ABK Stuttgart and IUAV Venezia
LA CASA DI MARTINA at Casette neighborhood with Assemblea Sociale per la Casa Venezia, Rio Terà dei Pensieri Venice, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, TU Darmstadt and IUAV Venezia
AS FOUND with Laboratorio Climatico Pandora Mestre, Universiteit Antwerpen and IUAV Venezia
REPAIRING AT THE EDGE OF A CLOISTER with Associazione Chiostro a Sant’Elena, Laguna nel Bicchiere Venice, UdK Berlin and IUAV Venezia
DESIGN TO COMFORT with Centro Sociale Rivolta, Associazione Red Carpet For All, TU Braunschweig and IUAV Venezia
REPAIR + CARE SERVICE with Laboratorio Climatico Pandora Mestre, Universität Siegen and IUAV Venezia
