Venice, Italy May 22, 2021 Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) is honored to have been invited to the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Hashim Sarkis. Prof. Sarkis asked CohStra to respond to the question: How Will We Live Together? Co-founded in the city of Rotterdam in 2008 by Lucia Babina, Emiliano
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia curated by Hashim Sarkis, which was to take place in Venice from August 29th through November 29th, 2020 has been postponed to 2021, to be held from Saturday, May 22nd to Sunday, November 21st. For more information, please click here. Cohabitation Strategies considers the decision to postpone the exhibition wise and sensible
Cohabitation Strategies was invited to participate in the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia titled How will we live together? last year. The exhibition was planned to take place from May 23rd to November 29th, 2020 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as around other venues in Venice. We were
Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) was invited to contribute to the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial titled…and other such stories. Drawing from over ten years of practice and collaborations across neighborhoods, cities, and nations Urban Front emerged as an outgrowth of Cohstra’s work expanding the organization’s global capacity under the leadership of Miguel Robles-Durán and long term collaborator
We are happy to announce Cohabitation Strategies has been selected to be part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019. Titled…and other such stories, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial is rooted in close readings of the spatial realities of its host city. It invites practitioners and the public to engage with architecture and the built environment as
Cohabitation Strategies’ co-founder Lucia Babina participated at the Mammamiaaa Social Food Forum, curated by John Thackara. For three days, from March 7th-10th, fifteen Social Food Curators from across Europe met together in Matera, 2019 European Capital of Culture, and in Grottole to share the best practices about social food. During those three days John Thackara and the
This month Cohabitation Strategies kicked off the collaborative project From Here, Convening Place at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. The project is a local response to the current neighbourhood restructuring taking place in the vicinity of the gallery which is affecting a number of long-term residents and local groups rooted in downtown Edmonton. From Here, Convening Place sparked a dialog among
According to Storefront for Art and Architecture, as a contemporary form of commercialized nostalgia, souvenirs are the ultimate cliche in the representation of a city. Producing collective imaginaries made up of lines that follow the profiles of superlative sculptures, buildings, and stories, souvenirs have become, according to this organization, the reference points that anchor a
Cohabitation Strategies was granted a fellowship at Montalvo Art Center‘s Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP). LAP is designed to offer artists from a range of disciplines an environment conducive to individual and collaborative creative practice. Seeking to stimulate an energetic exchange of ideas between culturally diverse Fellows and across varied artistic fields and scholarly disciplines, the
The Temporary Office of Urban Disturbances took over Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s gallery space to give life to If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ve!! exhibition which expands the living archive of artist Martha Rosler’s emblematic 1989 three-show cycle entitled If You Lived Here… . The exhibition, which will be open from June 7 through July