Cuban architect-duo Anadis Gonzales and Fernando Martirena, founders of Infraestudio, were the recipients of the Tilting Axis/Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Fellowship 2021/2022. On April 14th, 2022 they presented series of fictional projects developed during the fellowship, which critically question the relationship between architectural design and current problems such as political transparency, the boycott of ecology, censorship, surveillance and punishment. Invited to join the conversation are Neyran Turan and Jonas Staal. This event was moderated by Federica Notari.
Below is an archive of that event.
During their fellowship Gonzales and Martirena focused on developing and investigating the relationships between architecture, politics and theater. Where do these practices meet and what happens when we think of architecture as a theater? What kind of impact can this have to subvert certain political contexts? Can architecture have an effective political agency, simultaneously with its functional one?
Due to technical issues the lecture by Jonas Staal is not included in the recording. For interested parties we would like to offer the possibility to download two research documents by Staal here instead.