Look around you! Everything that meets the eye has left a void. Everything you rely on in your everyday physical environment takes part in an operation that translates mountains into gravel, forests into clay pits, and villages into sand mines. Everything you touch was once in touch with another environment.
Today, the building and construction sectors account for 39% of total carbon emissions and 40% of global waste output. Digging, demolition, and dumping are the rules of this zero-sum game, where the habitability of some always entails the inhabitability of others, altering ecosystems into areas unfit to sustain life.
The exhibition project Commission on Circularity operates at the nexus of documentation and recommendation. On one front, it gathers world-leading researchers, artists, curators, and designers to construct an archive exploring ways of making the material economies of architecture visible via tangible objects, models, cartographies, concepts, and narratives. A sequence of events, comprising witness statements from experts, will perform, unfold and extend the archive during the exhibition period.
Secondly, the Commission on Circularity invites a series of prominent Danish architects to propose new circular legislation during a series of assemblies occurring from late May to late September, creating a temporary space for exploring law as a site of design. Here, the methods of architecture will be reconsidered, and the fabric of governance rewoven with the ethos of circularity and the expertise of architectural practice, giving rise to a new legal lexicon for shaping a new societal architecture.
Contributors: Global Extraction Observatory, Amelyn Ng, Marija Maric & Francelle Cane, Nina Canell, Countdown 2030, Ang Li, Materia Prima, Metasitu, Beauty of Oil, Jonathan Foote, Ecology of Stone, Lendager Group, Margarida Waco, and Students from the Royal Danish Academy.
The exhibition has been made possible by Dreyers Fond, Realdania, Statens Kunstfond, and Københavns Kommune.
Opening Hours and Entrance Fee
The opening of the exhibition is free of charge. Free drinks will be served.
The exhibition is open to the public 24/7 from the outside. Inside access is available on Fridays from 13:00 to 17:00, by appointment, and during event dates, granting full access to the archive.
Entrance fee: 30 kr. / free for members of CAFx Community.
Public Program
The exhibition event program will be announced soon.