"Mnemonics": The Romania Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Romania Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Romania Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words.Mnemonics proposes a contemporary take on the event?s theme and takes an ultimately optimistic snapshot of the public urban space that Romanian society has seen transforming over the past decades. It raises the question of the social and cultural functions of the free public space in Romanian cities.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
The concept uses a scenographic approach to describe a vast territory of freedom for several generations in Romania ? the freedom of movement and imagination and the freedom to remember childhood and reconnect its playfulness to adulthood.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Mnemonics appeals to the ancient technique of collecting memories ? ars memoriae, based on the connection between thoughts and a visual support invested with meaning, which is impossible to forget. We reflect on different moments of a space that are representative for the universe of the Romanian urban environment.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
During the second part of the XXth century most cities in Romania have gone through an accelerated process of industrialization and urbanizati...
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
As part of our 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale coverage, we present the completed Romania Pavilion. Below, the curatorial team describes the exhibition in their own words.Mnemonics proposes a contemporary take on the event?s theme and takes an ultimately optimistic snapshot of the public urban space that Romanian society has seen transforming over the past decades. It raises the question of the social and cultural functions of the free public space in Romanian cities.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
The concept uses a scenographic approach to describe a vast territory of freedom for several generations in Romania ? the freedom of movement and imagination and the freedom to remember childhood and reconnect its playfulness to adulthood.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
Mnemonics appeals to the ancient technique of collecting memories ? ars memoriae, based on the connection between thoughts and a visual support invested with meaning, which is impossible to forget. We reflect on different moments of a space that are representative for the universe of the Romanian urban environment.
© Laurian Ghinitoiu
During the second part of the XXth century most cities in Romania have gone through an accelerated process of industrialization and urbanizati...
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