EMERGING RESILIENCE: Reimage voids through sharing values
15th international architecture exhibition of the Biennale di Architettura, Venice, Italy
The aim of the exhibition in Montenegro Pavilion in Venice, is to demonstrate the path that has to be taken by the Individual, in order to form resilient communities and restore the balance between human acting and natural conditions and the development in time and space.
One part of the space in the pavilion is intended to present the awakening of consciousness, whereas in the other part there is a presentation of data collected in the investigation on the field, prior the start of Biennale.
Montenegro Pavilion contains five showrooms, and each has a special importance and symbolism.
The first showroom displays the consciousness of the Individual who is estranged from the society
and nature. The space is dark, with no lighting. In the space, there is a chair and a table.
At the part of the first room that is opposite from the entrance, there is a passage to the second room illuminated in daylight with plants swinging gently and leaves rustling in the light “wind”. This room displays a “call of the nature” directed towards the visitors. Entering the first room, a visitor becomes aware of the void filling the space, and the very next moment, an instinctive curiosity for the investigation of the exiting world of nature arouses in him. The frontal wall is hidden with a dense bamboo or bulrush, reaching the ceiling.
The third room presents a central motive of the exhibition. In this room, a visitor realizes that with each step he affects the nature and community, and becomes aware of his own responsibility. Walking across the room, visitor causes the movement of the ground and the vegetation in the room, and the effect is very obvious. The floor of this room is coated with a layer that produces an effect similar to the one that can be observed when walking across the water bed, or elastic sack willed with sand. Over this basal layer, a loose soil is poured and there are palm trees in some parts of the room.
The fourth and the fifth room are intended for the presentation of data obtained during investigation conducted before the start of the exhibition. The investigation implies the exercise of first three processes of the Space Management Model, on the chosen site in Montenegro. Data which will be collected and presented are to be diversiform and for sure interesting for the joint analyses by visitors. It will be especially interesting to study the change of attitude and thinking in individuals before and after education, as well as to observe the indications of community forming and the development of the sense for social responsibility.
In the fourth showroom, presentation is shown on the panel, while in the fifth room, collected data are presented in the hardcopy form, in great number of copies so visitors can have their one specimen.
