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The unique networking of students from the Faculty of Architecture of Brno University of Technology and Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Art and Architecture of Technical University of Liberec, ARCHIP, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment with the think-tank The Why Factory presents a reflection on the future of the Czech Republic and brings hundreds of ideas for reforestation, national parks, industrial production, transport infrastructure, housing, demography, population density, ecology, sociology or economics.
"The university-based collaboration between the Czech Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands represents in many ways the view of an emerging generation of architects for whom Europe's interconnected space is a self-evident and lived reality. For this reason, the project can also be seen as a message from young Europeans who are keenly aware of the challenges of our time, especially those related to ongoing climate change and the associated socio-economic and political shifts," comments Radek Suchánek, Dean of the FA BUT.
"An important feature of the visions found here is their optimism. An optimism that is almost naive. An optimism that is much needed here and now, needed in a Czech society that all too often has a problem with pseudo-rational negation of any engagement, ambition or effort to change the status quo. A negation that is essentially dictated by fear. A fear that is known all over the world today, but here on the Vltava, Morava and Oder rivers much stronger and more dangerous. As architects and urban planners, we are aware of this fear in our profession. We believe that it not only weakens us, but also, and perhaps above all, changes us," says Szymon Rozwałka, adding, "we need a new awakening, a new attitude, a new sensitivity, without which no new thinking can emerge. We would be happy if CZ2 would lend a hand to the work of such an awakening."
CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech republic builds on Winy Maas' previous work as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where the travelling exhibition premiered. From there, it moves to the Market Hall at Brno's Zelný trh. The next stops will be the new cultural quarter Automatické mlýny in Pardubice, the Colours of Ostrava festival and then Prague Castle. Each stop of the installation is intended to help spark discussions with local experts across sectors and the wider public about the future of the country. The large-scale vision map then serves as the first version of a platform for this debate. A platform that is intended to enable the whole nation to share and shape its own direction in an inclusive and non-partisan way in the future.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Governor of the South Moravian Region, Jan Grolich, and the Dutch Embassy. The project partners are Solodoor, Starobrno and DEK.
Hundreds of visions for the future of the country: Five universities from the Czech Republic and abroad call for a national platform
The CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech republic exhibition will present the visions of the student body led by Winy Maas, co-founder of the MVRDV architectural studio, and educators from five universities, including Michal Palaščak and Szymon Rozwałka from the Brno University of Technology. More than 150 students from the Czech Republic and the wider world will present their proposals for growing mushrooms in abandoned mines, extending arable land to the roofs of apartment blocks and other topics outlining the development of landscapes and cities through projects and opinions placed on a large-scale map of the Czech Republic. On 13 March 2024 at 6 pm, a round table discussion on the topic of finding visions for Moravia will take place as part of the exhibition. This discussion is part of the broader challenge of the entire exhibition - the call for the creation of a stable national platform for defining visions for the republic that will make multidisciplinary debate accessible across a broader professional and lay public.The unique networking of students from the Faculty of Architecture of Brno University of Technology and Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Art and Architecture of Technical University of Liberec, ARCHIP, TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment with the think-tank The Why Factory presents a reflection on the future of the Czech Republic and brings hundreds of ideas for reforestation, national parks, industrial production, transport infrastructure, housing, demography, population density, ecology, sociology or economics.
"The university-based collaboration between the Czech Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands represents in many ways the view of an emerging generation of architects for whom Europe's interconnected space is a self-evident and lived reality. For this reason, the project can also be seen as a message from young Europeans who are keenly aware of the challenges of our time, especially those related to ongoing climate change and the associated socio-economic and political shifts," comments Radek Suchánek, Dean of the FA BUT.
"An important feature of the visions found here is their optimism. An optimism that is almost naive. An optimism that is much needed here and now, needed in a Czech society that all too often has a problem with pseudo-rational negation of any engagement, ambition or effort to change the status quo. A negation that is essentially dictated by fear. A fear that is known all over the world today, but here on the Vltava, Morava and Oder rivers much stronger and more dangerous. As architects and urban planners, we are aware of this fear in our profession. We believe that it not only weakens us, but also, and perhaps above all, changes us," says Szymon Rozwałka, adding, "we need a new awakening, a new attitude, a new sensitivity, without which no new thinking can emerge. We would be happy if CZ2 would lend a hand to the work of such an awakening."
CZ2: Visions for the Future of the Czech republic builds on Winy Maas' previous work as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where the travelling exhibition premiered. From there, it moves to the Market Hall at Brno's Zelný trh. The next stops will be the new cultural quarter Automatické mlýny in Pardubice, the Colours of Ostrava festival and then Prague Castle. Each stop of the installation is intended to help spark discussions with local experts across sectors and the wider public about the future of the country. The large-scale vision map then serves as the first version of a platform for this debate. A platform that is intended to enable the whole nation to share and shape its own direction in an inclusive and non-partisan way in the future.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Governor of the South Moravian Region, Jan Grolich, and the Dutch Embassy. The project partners are Solodoor, Starobrno and DEK.
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