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21/11/2013

Uneven Growth

The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York

The Museum of Modern Art announces a 14-month initiative to examine new architectural possibilities that address the rapid and uneven growth of six global metropolises: New York, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, Lagos, Hong Kong, and Istanbul. Organized by Pedro Gadanho, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities enlists six interdisciplinary teams of international architecture and urbanism scholars, experts, and practitioners to participate in a series of workshops that begin on October 26, 2013, with each team focusing on a specific city. The resulting proposals will be exhibited at MoMA from November 22, 2014, to May 10, 2015. Uneven Growth is organized by MoMA in collaboration with the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna.
“In 2030, the world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two- thirds will live in cities, and most will be poor and with limited resources. This unbalanced growth will be one of the greatest challenges to societies across the globe,” said Mr. Gadanho. “City authorities, urban planners and designers, and economists will need to join forces in an attempt to avoid a major social and economical catastrophe, working together to ensure that expanding megacities will be habitable. Uneven Growth will enable MoMA to take a leadership role in addressing this challenge.”
For the workshop phase of Uneven Growth, teams are challenged to create proposals that offer new and inventive ways of thinking about the growth of cities. The design teams develop projects under the curatorial and critical guidance of MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, and an advisory board that includes such leading figures as Saskia Sassen, David Harvey, Ricky Burdette, Neil Brenner, Nader Tehrani, Michael Sorkin, Marc Angélil, Teddy Cruz, and others.
The workshop phase launches on Saturday, October 26, 2013. Following an initial workshop in the VW Dome at MoMA PS1, workshops are also planned at The Value Factory in Shenzhen, China, in December 2013, and at MAK, in Vienna in June 2014. These events will produce responses to the theme, while bringing the larger discussion to the general public. For the second phase of Uneven Growth, MoMA will present an exhibition of the resulting proposals, beginning on November 22, 2014. At the center of the exhibition will be design visions for the near future of the selected cities, comprising drawings, renderings, films and animations to be produced by the six teams during the workshop period. The final result will be an exhibition catalogue that brings together each of the proposals and groundbreaking essays about the subject.
Uneven Growth is the third in a series of Architecture and Design exhibitions at MoMA called Issues in Contemporary Architecture, which focuses on timely topics in contemporary architecture with an emphasis on the urban dimension in order to increase public dialogue around seminal issues in architecture. The series was launched in 2009 with Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, a major initiative that brought together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure solutions to make New York City more resilient in response to rising water levels. It continued in 2011 with Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream, which examined architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the context of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States.
This is the third exhibition in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture, supported by Andre Singer.

The accompanying workshops at MoMA PS1 are made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

The teams:
Six pre-selected teams will produce future scenarios and design proposals for each of their assigned urban areas.

New York
Situ Studio, New York, U.S.
Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra), Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rio de Janeiro
Rua Arquitetos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
MAS Urban Design ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

Mumbai
URBZ, Mumbai, India
Pop Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, U.S.

Lagos
NLE Architects, Lagos, Nigeria
Inteligencias Colectivas, Madrid, Spain

Hong Kong
MAP Office, Hong Kong, China
Network Architecture Lab, Columbia University, NY, U.S.

Istanbul
Superpool, Istanbul, Turkey
Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée, Paris, France

Sponsorship:
This is the third exhibition in the series Issues in Contemporary Architecture, supported by Andre Singer.
The accompanying workshops at MoMA PS1 are made possible by MoMA’s Wallis Annenberg Fund for Innovation in Contemporary Art through the Annenberg Foundation.

Press Contacts:
Sara Beth Walsh, (212) 708-9747 or sarabeth_walsh@moma.org
Margaret Doyle, (212) 408-6400 or margaret_doyle@moma.org

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