Austria 2021

Title: Platform Austria
Commissioner: Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport – Division Arts and Culture
Curators: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer
Exhibitors: Centre for Global Architecture; bloggers and guest discussants, including Ross Exo Adams, Tom Avermaete, Lucia Babina, Jochen Becker, Andrea Boerner & Bernadette Krejs, Neil Brenner, Daniel Cardoso, Letizia Chiappini & Anastasiya Halauniova & Ying Tzu Lin, Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman, Peggy Deamer, Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler, Michel Feher, Eva Franch I Gilabert, Pedro Gadanho, Benjamin Gerdes, Mark Graham, Stephen Graham, Orit Halpern, Gabu Heindl & Drehli Robnik, Owen Hatherley, Leo Hollis, Andreas Kofler, Maros Krivy, Laura Kurgan, Peter Lang, Mona Mahall & Asli Serbest, Jonathan Massey, Shannon Mattern, metroZones, Sandro Mezzadra, Susan Moore & Scott Rodgers, Louis Moreno, Anh-Linh Ngo, Luciana Parisi, João Prates Vital Ruivo, Heidi Pretterhofer, Vyjayanthi Rao, Jathan Sadowski, Saskia Sassen, Manuel Shvartzberg-Carrió, Douglas Spencer, Matthew Stewart, Ravi Sundaram, Tiziana Terranova, Ignacio Valero, Matias Viegener, Alan Wiig

The exhibition investigates the increasing role of platform urbanism in the development of our cities and in discarding old orders and structures. Today digital platforms as Facebook, Google and Amazon permeate all aspects of our lives. The pavilion it selfs will be transformed into a platform for active critical engagement with the future of architecture.