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John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the first day of their Amsterdam bed-in, 1969.

This year we continue developing the Scenography module for and with the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and will lead the Fall studio called Bedspace, or the Smallest Spatial Unit.

Researching Noord-Brabant for the next project!

SVESMI publication Visionaries. Notes on Systemic Change is ready for pre-order.

The project Visionaries explores both the process and agents of visionary design production in the age of the next grand narrative of climate disaster. It focuses on the visions by architects, designers, and engineers, who want to change the world systemically.

The authors of this notebook aspire to impose alternative order of things and create not just beautiful physical structures, but ambitious, and, at times, controversial prescriptions for responsible actions.
In this way or another, all of them are interested in new models and prototypes that are supposed to be interpreted—not simply replicated!—in multiple productive ways, also by future generations..

https://www.circodeideias.pt/en/produto/visionaries/

Happy about the news! Anastassia Smirnova with SVESMI team will curate a major exhibition VISIONARIES at the Culturgest Cultural Centre for the Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022

The sixth edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale under the title TERRA will take place in 2022. Chief curators Cristina verissimo and Diogo Burnay invited SVESMI to curate one of the key shows with a focus on visions for our common future and their authors.

2022 Terra. It’s the 6th edition of the Triennale 2022. With different meanings, depending on the scale and the observer, Terra expresses the territory, the city, the landscape, the place where we belong, or a continent seen from the sea. It may be a habitable planet or material for cultivation. It may...