Exhibition: From Extraction to Restitution

Dates: May 24- 31, 2023

Students: Diogo Gomes Costa, Emine Ayse Karaarslan, Ivan Dmitrievich Badiarov, Kasra Karami, Lun Lam Kwok, Mahdi Panjehpour, Malan Ilangarathna, Ilangarathnage, Maria Vavoule, Maryam Rasheed, Melsida Babayan, Michel Da Silva Ferreira, Mohammed Zanboa, Selin Sarikaya, Shui Mei Chan, Siranuysh Martirosyan, Vanessa Peresi, Arturas Certovas, Astrid Hennus, Christine Jiayi Chen, Wilhelm Gardeleone, Heida Sigrun Palsdottir, Kristina Shatokhina, Michelle Soares De Sousa.

Curatorial advise:
Maribel Casas (luca), César Reyes Nájera (MArch)

Students presenting their works to the public at luca.

During a week a series of events showed how new generations of architects face the challenges of climate change, spatial justice, and urban sprawl with renewed sensibility. Context awareness, empathy with humans and non-human beings, match with technical and compositional skills generating new ways of observation, interaction, and cohabitation in our cities. A different attitude towards the soil, water bodies and atmosphere that sustain our lives on earth, moving out from extraction to restitution.

The students curated a major exhibition occupying the main spaces of luca. The exhibition included material from the previous: Voices from a Transforming River in Linz am Rhein, From Zwischenstadt to Landstadt in Munich, and Re-imagining Belval.

The exhibition was accompanied by alumni talks, a documentary screening, a workshop, a closing conference, and a party.

Students presenting their works to the public at luca.

Cesar Reyes introducing the students’ exhibition.

Maribel Casas introducing the alumni talks.

Student party at luca.