Countryside, The Future, A UN75 Dialogue in partnership with The Guggenheim
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Countryside, The Future, A UN75 Dialogue hosted by Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, coincides with the reopening of AMO or their seminal exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York. Countryside, The Future addresses the urgent environmental, political and socio-economic issues in rural contexts
Moderated by:
Rem Koolhaas, Founder of OMA and curator of Countryside, The Future
Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the research and design studio at OMA
This dialogue is presented in partnership with the Open Mind Project as part of this week's historic 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Panelists include:
Etta Madete, architect and lecturer at University of Nairobi
Dr Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi
Matthew Mazzotta, Social Practice Artist and Founder of The Main Idea
Lenora Ditzler, Agricultural systems scientist; PhD candidate at Wageningen University.
안녕하세요. 안국에서 도시재생 및 공간 아카이브를 공부하는 연구자입니다. 좋은 영상 공유해주셔서 감사합니다.
¿AMERICA, a hole continent, with a huge and diverse kind of problems in all kind of fields, 35 countries with different cultures, practices and races and several problemas with land ownership, is represented just by an artist from EEUU (Oh coincidence!) who present us his projects around movable objects for small communities to have just a momentary experience about their own town and to eat local food in a table for 20 people???? That`s "the rural"? Are you sure that this is all that you can delve into? it seems a very weak presentation... Where is the countryside? What is exactly what you call The future? But most of all: where is Latin American?
@@billyjosh9462 I know exactly what I said Billy. I come from there and I assure you that you do not know even half of the things that happen here. I`m interested in the hole picture and the interests behind it and conflicts around it, not in a "new future dream", that always brings good news for some but not for others. I don`t know where you come from but I know where I live in and the kind of conflicts we deal with. So I insist, why don`t even a word about Latin American?
@@jausky The dialogue was a discussion focusing on a small number of case studies relevant to the major exhibition at the Guggenheim called: "Countryside, the Future". Within that exhibition are case studies from all over the world including South America (specifically an in in-depth investigative research into conservation in Chile / Patagonia). I do think Matthew's work in town and city downtown's in North America is extremely relevant to the global phenomenon of disinvestment in small rural towns. The same factors that have led to disinvestment in those towns is what I see where I am from in Norway and the UK, and where I work in the Middle East. These kinds of imaginative responses is what the world needs now. New models can be developed and replicated if they work. One small project can be a ripple that turns to a wave. Why not?
@@stephenstapleton7061 I understand your point, most of all your position: you came from Norway... One of the countries with one of the highest PIB per capita, the highest HDI of the world and and counting (almost the same can be said about Uk). I come from Argentina. So my vision is crossed by completely different problems. We have one of the most expanded territories for agriculture, known in all over the world but owned by a few who decides for their own interests. Half of Patagonia are owned by millioners who have never been here. We also have Monasanto making their business, using pesticides and killing people by their efects (there`s a documentary about that). Surprisingly, our country produces food for more than 400 million people in the world but 50% of our population are poor and more than 62% of our young population also. So, Matthew`s work sound nice, almost even fun. But what kind of culture and society are he dealing with? Can we export the same kind of solutions to countries like Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina or Congo? It`s not surprise you quote Chile as one of the countries studied, one of the most opened neoliberal countries in Latin American. Of course I found all this issues tremendously relevant and neccesary to deal with, no doubt about it: I`m an architect too and I live in this planet. But, isn`t it neccesary to ask at the same time other kind of questions like: how is that 1% of the rich in the world accumulate twice the wealth of 6.9 billion people? How much of this transformations responds to common interestes and how much is related to the needs of the industry that have to test new products and keep the wheel turning? Are we sure that all these benefits will reach those most in need? What kind of groups are participating of the investigation? How can we feel involved in the investigation if the exhibition only takes place at the Guggenheim headquarters in NY? Can we agree that part of this crisis is due to the inequalities that exist in the world? There`s a lot to say and discuss. In fact, we could also debate about cultural institutions, about their role in the "design” of a state of affairs without conflicts, in the way in which the virulence of art has been absorbed by the same institutions under productive formats. In fact we could analyze how an institution as the Guggenheim ends up leading an investigation on the countryside. But of course, is imposible to do it here.
In short, seeing the history of the world, noticing how science has been intervened by interests of all kinds, witnessing the rebirth of old nationalism in Europe and the armed conflicts for purely economic reasons, let me have my doubts… I hope I`wrong and i`m trying to be positive, but if we don't deal with inequality in the world no matter how many changes we make, at some point conflicts will reappear.
At the end, ¿who have generated this crisis: ordinary people or decisions taken in general behind people's backs by governments, politicians, corporations and businessmen? (sorry if my english aren`t so good)