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Homo Faber 3.0
Homo Faber 3.0: Appropriation of Digital Fabrication from Latin America is inspired by local challenges, vulnerable communities, and semi-peripheral geographies, from the creative strategies that drive pioneers, developers, and end-users in our region with digital fabrication, as an ally of their processes of design, in any of its forms. Homo Faber 3.0 explores the domestication, interpretation, and application of digital fabrication in the region, which stimulates the logic of technological appropriation of Homo Faber, beyond simple curiosity, automation, and personalization, to distance itself from the modest technological manipulation of Homo Fabricatus. Appropriation as a critical practice makes visible processes that create the foundations of a digital culture that establishes local agendas for other geographies, implementing technical solutions in synergy with situated ecosystems. 2022 Link. -
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities was an exhibition in 2019 in Chengdu, China, curated by Wu Kai Xun. My project Nation in the Great Atlantic Garbage Vortex was exhibited. Here you can see the leaflet in Chinese. For this occasion, I was interviewed by Huey Hoong Chan. -
Summer Exhibition 2018
The project "Nation in the Great Atlantic Garbage Vortex" was exhibited at Studio Kai, Frankfurt, July 2018. Brochure here. -
Big Fat Dumb Cities For Sale
The countryside is dead / The village can only survive when it turns into a commodity / The commodity is a building with 10 km2 floor area / This building is a small city / This city is a large Hotel / This Hotel has 10000 rooms / The rooms are as large as houses and as small as restrooms / The inhabitant of this building is the stranger / The Stranger is the one that came yesterday and will stay tomorrow / The stranger of today is / The migrant worker / The tourist / The refugee / The student / The manager / The homeless / The traveler / The visitor / The immigrant / The foreigner / The prisoner / The patient / The commuter / The body / The flaneur / The voyeur / The expatriate / The exile Tutor: Peter Trummer Website February, 2016 -
Active Borders
The work of eight selected students presents a culmination of the first year program of the Staedelschule Architecture Class (SAC) of 2015. This year, in collaboration with Architecture Summer Rhein Main 2015, the chosen topic of the final project was ‘Active Borders’, and the students were asked to design a small scale structure on the border between Frankfurt and Offenbach.
Instead of focusing on urban, political or programmatic problems of a given situation, SAC chose to remain true to its devotion to the formal problems in architecture, which we understand and champion as its disciplinary basis. The Active Borders topic became a pretext for exploring various transitions between formal properties of objects, as well as investigating the spatial effects engendered through formalizing the border.
Ultimately, each project serves as a proof of concept for a certain idea of disciplinary specificity, as the main question addressed in the first year at SAC is ‘What do architects do?’. Leaving the notions of inter- or trans-disciplinarity to others, the SAC first year program is devoted to a very powerful yet deceptively simple idea: Architects draw and model.
With works by: Sara Ezz El Arab, Huey Hoong Chan, Wonseok Chae, Victor Sardenberg, Jonathan Sutanto, Hossein Hamdieh, Jorge Ruiz Cordero, Wu Kaixun
Active Borders Virtual Environment by Damjan Jovanovic
Curatorial team: Johan Bettum, Damjan Jovanovic, Adil Bokhari, Jenny Choi
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Homo Faber
Homo Faber was a travelling exhibition in South America in 2015. Curators David M. Sperling and Pablo C. Herrera mapped the digital fabrication actors in South America and its boom in the 2010's. Some of the professional and academic projects by Victor Sardenberg were exhibited, including Coblogó by SUBdV Architecture, Muscipullus by UFRJ students and Love Project by Studio Guto Requena. The catalogue is available here. -
Mutante
Invited to analyse the architectural design of the three modern art museums in Brazil (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador), SUBdV proposes a hybrid version, merging important characteristics of each museum. The main goal is to optimise the circulation system connecting different levels and the surroundings to generate new programs and events. MAM - Museum of Modern Art - São Paulo, December, 2013.
Victor Sardenberg
Architecture and Cultural Practice