Nowadays, architecture museums, galleries, publishing houses, foundations, and experimental laboratories all have rooms to show their backstage, bringing about debates and proposals of the future of architecture. This is all part of Future Architecture Rooms, a project launched early this week on the Future Architecture Platform which showcases a collection of online spaces, each hosted by one institution and one member of the platform. We talked with the concept curator, Anastassia Smirnova (SVESMI) to better understand how the idea behind this project emerged, and what innovations it can present in the way of working on exhibitions and architecture.
Victor Delaqua: Many occupations that take place in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries go through behavioural norms that are internalized in the body itself. In this sense, can the virtual room present a rupture in the way of exposing ideas?
Anastassia Smirnova (SVESMI): We launch this online environment – a structure comprised of virtual rooms each hosted by one of the 27 institutions, members of the Future Architecture platform - with a unique video narrative in every online "residency".
