In a moment of enormous irrationality, with a world to drift, the Commissioner of the Architecture Biennial of Venice, Carlo Ratti, proposes to talk about intelligences, collective intelligences, natural intelligences, artificial intelligences … I do not know if it is the best time to talk about intelligences, but in any case we assume the challenge, ”says the director of the Institut Ramon Llull, Pere Almeda, in the present Projective ecosocial, the proposal of the Catalan pavilion within the Eventi Collaterali Agua will occupy, from May 10 to November 23, the old naval construction space now renamed Docks Cantieri Cucchini, the usual headquarters of the Catalan pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The idea is to transform the ship into a parliament of water where the visitor can reflect on the role of this resource in the configuration of our environment. “Because all architecture is water architecture,” says Franch. “It is not only a resource to consume, but from the materials we use to the infrastructure that we build (sewer systems to cooling mechanisms) the water is present at all levels.” The problem, they add, is that for too long infrastructure has been hidden in sight and that “has moved us away from the ecological consequences of our actions,” they reflect. The Catalan pavilion at the Architecture Biennial proposes a body and intellectual experience of the project that will be seen in Venice, the city par excellence of the water, in fact began six months ago, with the realization of different future laboratories carried out in different parts of Catalunya, Valencia and Las Balereos, in each of which participated between fifteen and twenty people from different areas (farmers, anthropologists, anthropologists, anthropologists, anthropologists, anthropologists Climatologists, activists, architects …), to know in situ the controversies in each of the territories. The voices of the participants will be heard in the pavilion, where seven cases of study, the projective architectures of the title will be addressed, with which there is a critical response urgent issues such as drought, the modification of water masses through the prey or the food extractivism that makes for example the rainwater that water the earth where the pears of Lleida travel 20,000 kilometers (They propose some banners with a “denomination of destination” that poetically reveals the hidden trip of each drop of water). Also from architecture they will try to provide solutions to the unpredictability of meteorological phenomena and specifically to the catastrophic floods of Valencia, where hydraulic doors that would open in the two directions, and not only outward as the Spanish security regulations require, they would have saved many lives. Also read, although the commissioners prefer not to talk about “immersive experience”, the truth is that water parliaments consists of a large installation built from a membrane of tensioned tissue, inside whose an aqueous and changing atmosphere will be created, with fog cycles, steam discharges and a multisensory game of lights and shadows. “The spaces in the biennials are often tremendously tense, they even abuse some intellectualism, that is, you have to be in each pavilion to finish understanding it, and we understand that this reflexive part has to be, but it must also be able to live at the body level. That is, the visitor will be wrapped in suspended water, which can have an intellectual and coral experience,” Luzárraga concludes. The project also has a publication, 100 paraules per l’Aigua: a vocabulari, which collects as many terms developed by thinkers from around the world.
