AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Impact, Dissemination and Events
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SHIFTING GROUND
KTH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE IN COLLABORATION WITH OCCAS,
VENICE BIENNALE, 30 AUGUST 2012
PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS:
Joseph Rykwert, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Pippo Ciorra
and Mari Lending
MODERATORS:
Tim Anstey and Frida Rosenberg
Resonating with chief curator David Chipperfield’s theme “Common Ground”
for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2012, the panel “Shifting Ground” formed
part of the biennale’s special program for universities in the Venice Arsenale.
Léa-Catherine Szacka, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Pippo Ciorra, MAXXI Architet-
tura, Rome; Mari Lending, Oslo School of Architecture and Design; and Joseph
Rykwert, University of Pennsylvania, debated the role of criticism within the
biennale institution.
AUGUST
SENSING PLACE. MEDIATIZING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
CENTRE FOR DESIGN RESEARCH EXHIBITION, HOUSE OF ELECTRONIC
ARTS BASEL, 31 AUGUST–11 NOVEMBER 2012
PARTICIPANTS:
Einar Martinussen, Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen
Urban architecture is overlapped by a landscape of data that is invisible to the
eye but nevertheless actively and sustainably influences the information society.
Norwegian artists Timo Arnall, Jørn Knutsen and Einar Sneve Martinussen seek to
visualize this immaterial and intangible terrain. With a measuring rod, four meters
in height and consisting of 80 light-emitting diodes that react to the signal strength
of WiFi-networks, the artists tracked down the networks of an urban district in Oslo
and photographically captured the invisible topography through time exposure and
montage. “Immaterials: Light painting WiFi” exposes the sculptural shapes that are
formed by wireless networks in urban spaces and reflects how they relate to the
urban architecture and the physical environment surrounding them.
