2038
Artdirection and Design for Deutscher Pavillon der Architekturbiennale Venedig, 2020/2021
With: Simon Schnidele. Special Tag: Future, Present
2038 is an international team of architects, artists, ecologists, economists, scientists, politicians and writers, initiated in 2019, aiming to tell a (hi)story that today we call future.
The Laboratory of Manuel Bürger developed the visual identity for 2038, creating simple design elements and typographic settings adaptable for video, social media, and print — both on-site (at the German Pavilion) and in related publications (see 2038xAWC). These visual markers reinforce the project’s narrative: a retrospective look at our present and near future. Find out more at 2038
"2038 – The New Serenity, invites you to discover a story between fact and fiction. In a series of films, it tells the history of a better world in which everything, though imperfect, is better in some pretty profound and radical ways.
Based on the knowledge and visions of a collaborative team of international experts from Architecture, Art, Ecology, Economy, Philosophy, Politics, Science and Technology, team 2038 strives to explore our future society through prefigurative politics, illustrating modes of organization and social relationships to come." Source: 2038
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"If I now look back from 2038, I think I can rightly say that the 2020s were challenging and perhaps also the most groundbreaking years of the new century."
Anne Katrin Bohle, Johannes Ebert
Source: 2038
"We developed a society not obsessed with competition. So we forgot competition as one of our core values and goals. Instead we re-embraced the values that we have before us: Solidarity & cooperation, engaging in activities that are not driven by expectations of profitability."
Evgeny Morozov
Source: 2038
"Having access to what belongs to everyone is much better than having absolute control over your own things. So we came up with a market based, decentralized mechanism for having common ownership, moving beyond the idea of socialists loving taxes and capitalists loving private property."
E. Glen Weyl
Source: 2038
"Cities became the place for experimenting with sustainability and democracy by reclaiming control over data. Citizens became the ones who owned the data, using it to create a digital commons, which enabled new cooperative platforms."
Francesca Bria
Source: 2038
"Thinking in fixed objects is much riskier than thinking in open processes. Fixed entities remove all possibilities for future change and are unable to update the past. It took us 30 years to shift our way of understanding and to find out that these systems, technically and ecologically, are nested within each other on very different scales of space and time."
Ferdinand Ludwig and Daniel Schönle
Source: 2038