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Potential Monuments of Unrealised Futures

Curated by Beyond Entropy Balkans (Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Jonida Turani)

Works by Adrian Paci and Edi Hila

AA Gallery, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London 16/1/2015 - 12/3/2015

Event: Friday 16 January, 6:30pm, Stefano Rabolli Pansera and Jonida Turani in discussion with Adrian Paci, Edi Hila and Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania

[ph ©Sue Barr)

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I imagine a wooden boat on fire. A fire that illuminates the night and slowly consumes and transforms the fishing boat in coal. A fire that accompanies the traveling distance of the miners and fishermen. Change of a substance from one physical state to another. An entropic event  transforming matter and symbols. (Giorgio Andreotta Calo’)

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni A project by Giorgio Andreotta Calò, curated by Beyond Entropy Mediterranean, in collaboration with Carbosulcis Miners and Sant’Antioco Fishermen Cooperative Association (4th december 2014)

[ph Nuvola Ravera]

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In Angola’s capital, Luanda, every space simultaneously performs a diversity of programs: each space is constantly becoming other from itself thus turning the city into a morphing conurbation that resists any “zoning.” By avoiding any radical destruction of the urban fabric, the plantation of Arundo Donax in the interstitial space between buildings produces a new urban condition. Simultaneously garden and infrastructure for filtering waters and producing biomass for electricity, this energetic “common ground” develops an alternative method of imagining the African city.

This is "Beyond Entropy Angola", a documentary by Pedro Lino about the making of the first Angolan National Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. Shot over the Summer of 2012, it goes to show how one simple (and brilliant) idea may very well change the future sustainability of developing countries. And maybe the rest of the world as well.

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Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital city of Angola, and the country's most populous and important city, primary port and major industrial, cultural and urban centre.

Despite the complexity and difference among urban areas, two recurring paradoxes define the peri-urban areas of Luanda: high density without high rise buildings and large cities without infrastructures. Beyond Entropy proposes the model of ‘morphing space’ to understand this condition. In fact, each space is ‘undecidable’ as it simultaneously performs a variety of uses - it is at the same time house, office, warehouse or garage, etc. We have formulated three proposals at the Biennale in Venice in the form of a prototype of a common ground, an encyclopedic palace and a cinematic exploration of modernist architecture. Each proposal complies with the irreducible complexity of the transformative nature of the African city, resistant to (or systematically subverting) any conventional zoning.

No space is fixed: as streets turn into markets, houses into shops and pavements into shop windows. Conventions such as private property and destination of use are irrelevant as each space has simultaneous uses at different times of the day. High-density is the condition for such a transformation as it concentrates different programmes, and functions onto the same site.

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“Change nothing,

so that everything is different.” Jean-Luc Godard