{"id":3604,"date":"2021-05-30T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T21:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2021-05-30T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T21:51:31","slug":"geoscope-ii-venice-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"Geoscope II @ Venice Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A peek at the installation with the crew:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Geoscope 2: Worlds Venice Biennale\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzpF4f2Sl_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-750x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1348-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-750x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3607\" width=\"751\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_1387-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-750x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_3209-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the Press Release:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Geoscope 2<\/em>, a split-sphere, multi-media installation, will appear at the Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice, showcasing over a dozen (and counting) contemporary voices inside and outside architecture, ranging from Pritzker Prize winning architect Kazuyo Sejima to radical ecologist and philosopher Timothy Morton.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by Daniel L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s provocative and luminous book <em>R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern Thinking <\/em>(Lars M\u00fcller Publishers, 2020), architect Jesse Reiser and team were challenged with displaying the breadth and quality of its content for an exhibition at Princeton University in February 2020. The result was a first iteration of <em>Geoscope 2<\/em>: a pneumatic, spherical multimedia environment and continuation of Fuller\u2019s original geoscopes, reimagined through contemporary means. A year later, Princeton University is thrilled to see the second iteration on view at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first geoscopes, constructed by students of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) 60 years ago, were conceived as embodiments of the world looking at itself\u201d, and a means of comprehensively understanding one\u2019s relationship to the world. In response to the Biennale\u2019s question \u201cHow will we live together?\u201d <em>Geoscope 2 <\/em>flouts the idea of a single world body in favor of \u201cmany worlds\u201d \u2014 chaos generated by multiple bodies interacting with each other \u2014 by literally splitting the sphere in half and opening it up to multiple contributors and perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFuller\u2019s Geoscopes, while conceptually ambitious, were technologically limited by their times: literally analog vinyl spheres covered in decals in the shapes of the continents,\u201d note L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez and Reiser. \u201cThe way we see it, new technologies and advances in how we view the world have allowed us to simultaneously reimagine and challenge Fuller\u2019s original project. We believe that disunity, disjunction, and dissensus \u2014 \u2018worlds\u2019\u2014 are to be celebrated as evidence of true diversity in how we think, act, and interact with one another. This is our critical take on <em>how will we live together<\/em>: spirited agon as opposed to polite relativism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitors to the installation at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini will find themselves enveloped in a panoramic multimedia experience projected over 42 individual faces. Comprised of an international cast of contributors, <em>Geoscope 2: Worlds <\/em>generates a complex, kaleidoscopic ecosystem, a tableaux of world-thinking on the edge.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Team:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>Daniel L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez & Jesse Reiser<br \/>Geoscope 2 Design: RUR Architecture, Reiser+Umemoto<br \/>RUR Architecture Team: Julian Harake, Katherine Leung\u00a0<br \/>Inflatable Design: Pablo Kobayashi \/ Unidad de Protocolos<br \/>Inflatable Fabrication Team: Luc\u00eda Aumann, Ernesto Falabella, Emilio Robles, Pablo Kobayashi\u00a0\/ Unidad de Protocolos<br \/>Experience Design: Jan Pistor \u2013 Bureau 314 \/ for iart\u00a0with support from Denim Szram<br \/>Exhibition Manager: Kira McDonald \/ Princeton University School of Architecture<br \/>Exhibition Fabrication Assistants: Jasen Domanico, Kaleb Houston, Simon Lesina-Debiasi, Matthew Maldonado, Jacqueline Mix, Sonia Sobrino Ralston, Adrian Silva \/ Princeton University School of Architecture<br \/>Partnerships & Communications: Lukas Fitze \/ iart\u00a0<br \/>Trailer Video: Onome Ekeh \/ Futurezoo\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A peek at the installation with the crew: From the Press Release: Geoscope 2, a split-sphere, multi-media installation, will appear at the Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice, showcasing over a dozen (and counting) contemporary voices inside and outside architecture, ranging from Pritzker Prize winning architect Kazuyo Sejima to radical ecologist and philosopher Timothy Morton.\u00a0 Inspired by Daniel L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s provocative and luminous book R. Buckminster Fuller: Pattern Thinking (Lars M\u00fcller Publishers, 2020), architect Jesse Reiser and team were challenged with displaying the breadth and quality of its content for an exhibition at Princeton University in February 2020. The result was a first iteration of Geoscope 2: a pneumatic, spherical multimedia environment and continuation of Fuller\u2019s original geoscopes, reimagined through contemporary means. A year later, Princeton University is thrilled to see the second iteration on view at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition.\u00a0 The first geoscopes, constructed by students of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) 60 years ago, were conceived as embodiments of the world looking at itself\u201d, and a means of comprehensively understanding one\u2019s relationship to the world. In response to the Biennale\u2019s question \u201cHow will we live together?\u201d Geoscope 2 flouts the idea of a single world body in favor of \u201cmany worlds\u201d \u2014 chaos generated by multiple bodies interacting with each other \u2014 by literally splitting the sphere in half and opening it up to multiple contributors and perspectives. \u201cFuller\u2019s Geoscopes, while conceptually ambitious, were technologically limited by their times: literally analog vinyl spheres covered in decals in the shapes of the continents,\u201d note L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez and Reiser. \u201cThe way we see it, new technologies and advances in how we view the world have allowed us to simultaneously reimagine and challenge Fuller\u2019s original project. We believe that disunity, disjunction, and dissensus \u2014 \u2018worlds\u2019\u2014 are to be celebrated as evidence of true diversity in how we think, act, and interact with one another. This is our critical take on how will we live together: spirited agon as opposed to polite relativism.\u201d\u00a0 Visitors to the installation at the Central Pavilion in the Giardini will find themselves enveloped in a panoramic multimedia experience projected over 42 individual faces. Comprised of an international cast of contributors, Geoscope 2: Worlds generates a complex, kaleidoscopic ecosystem, a tableaux of world-thinking on the edge.\u00a0 Team:\u00a0Daniel L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez &#038; Jesse ReiserGeoscope 2 Design: RUR Architecture, Reiser+UmemotoRUR Architecture Team: Julian Harake, Katherine Leung\u00a0Inflatable Design: Pablo Kobayashi \/ Unidad de ProtocolosInflatable Fabrication Team: Luc\u00eda Aumann, Ernesto Falabella, Emilio Robles, Pablo Kobayashi\u00a0\/ Unidad de ProtocolosExperience Design: Jan Pistor \u2013 Bureau 314 \/ for iart\u00a0with support from Denim SzramExhibition Manager: Kira McDonald \/ Princeton University School of ArchitectureExhibition Fabrication Assistants: Jasen Domanico, Kaleb Houston, Simon Lesina-Debiasi, Matthew Maldonado, Jacqueline Mix, Sonia Sobrino Ralston, Adrian Silva \/ Princeton University School of ArchitecturePartnerships &#038; Communications: Lukas Fitze \/ iart\u00a0Trailer Video: Onome Ekeh \/ Futurezoo\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[80,278,277,280,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurezoo.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}