Groundwork
Groundwork is a three-part film and exhibition series exploring the conceptual development and field research of contemporary architects cultivating alternative modes of engagement with new project sites. Using documentary as a curatorial tool, the CCA will take a critical look at how designers across diverse geographies and contexts engage with their environments in preliminary phases of projects.
Groundwork follows Xu Tiantian to Meizhou Island off the coast of China where she is creating a set of interventions to mediate between pressures of heritage and tourism with marine ecology. A second chapter focuses on the work of bplus.xyz (b+) based in Berlin, and station.plus (s+), the chair for architecture and storytelling at ETH Zurich, as they organize a European Citizens’ Initiative to shift culture and legislation toward preservation and rehabilitation of the existing building stock. Finally, the series closes by following Carla Juaçaba to the heart of Minas Gerais, Brazil where she is developing pavilions in a coffee field—minimal support structures in a territory with collectives resisting extractive industrial agriculture.
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