This Thursday, the 14th of February, the Human Resources exhibition presents a screening of Återfödelsen/The Unliving. The screening acts as an intermission in the talk show program, that will continue on the 28th of February with the show Arkitektur på Kul / Architecture for Fun.
Following an introductory conversation with director Hugo Lilja, there will be movie and popcorn.
The Unliving is a 30 min short that has formed the point of departure for the work presented in the exhibition. It depicts a future following a zombie-outbreak and a society that has learned to tame the unliving into and endless resource of free labour.
Watch the trailer here: http://theunliving.com/
Bar opens at 17:00 and the introduction starts at 18:00.
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Posted: February 12th, 2013
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The first talk show in the Human Resources series starts Thursday 31/1 at 18:00, at the School of Architecture, KTH, sthlm.
Bar opens at 17:00
Joins us live! or watch the show here, at www.svenskstandard.org, later on.
(Shows will be posted online approximately one week following the live event.)
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Posted: January 30th, 2013
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Between the 28th of January and the 22nd of March 2013, Svensk Standard will be exhibiting at the KTH School of Architecture. The exhibition, entitled “Human Resources: Zombies, Architects, and the Politics of Unwaged Labour” was commissioned by the School, forming the School’s 2013 Teacher Exhibition.
The exhibition has two components: (i) a graphic presentation of a project undertaken in 2012, whereby the group created concept art and a series of strategic scenarios for the upcoming film, The Unliving; (ii) a talkshow, called “Human Resources”, comprising 4 episodes, that – building on our own work with The Unliving and other projects – takes up and questions the way in which architects variously romanticize, exploit, reject or strengthen a culture of unwaged labour (of working for free) through their practices.
The first episode of the Human Resources talkshow, entitled “För arkitekturens skull”, will be filmed in the triangle at the School of Architecture on Thursday the 31st of January at 6pm. It will be based around two twenty-minute discussions and will be open to the general public. More info to follow.
Scheduled Talk Shows
31 January 2013
Human Resources: A Talk Show, Episode 1: För arkitekturens skull / For the sake of architecture (ENG)
Bar opens 17.00
Show starts 18.00
14 February 2013
Film screening: The Unliving
Bar opens 17.00
Presentation of the project 18.00
Film starts 18.30
28 February 2013
Human Resources: A Talk Show, Episode 2: Arkitektur på kul! / Architecture for fun! (SWE)
Bar opens 17.00
Show starts 18.00
14 March 2013
Human Resources: A Talk Show, Episode 3: Pro bono (ENG)
Bar opens 17.00
Show starts 18.00
22 March 2013
Human Resources: A Talk Show, Episode 4: Life’s a pitch / Livet är en pitch (SWE)
Bar opens 17.00
Show starts 18.00
Visit KTH Arkitektur for more info!
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Posted: January 4th, 2013
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We were recently invited by Testbedstudio and Economy to participate in the At Work With residency programme within the Nordic Pavilion at the International Architecture Biennale in Venice. Fabulous, we thought! The At Work With project was conceived of as a kind of complement and counterpoint to the main – and rather controversial – Stay in Touch exhibition commissioned by the Swedish Museum of Architecture.
Typical of many of the exhibitions within the national pavilions at the Biennale, Stay in Touch exhibited Nordic architecture as both finished object and representation, displaying images of built projects and accompanying architectural drawings. In contrast to this approach, At Work With focused on the exhibition of Nordic architecture as process, by commissioning a series of young architecture-related practices to work within the space of the pavilion and to appropriate it as their “office” for a week. In this way, as we understood our brief, At Work With would become a way to activate the space and engage visitors to the pavilion in a more active dialogue. It would also work to harness the symbolic capital present in the broader event (the Venice Biennale) to support emerging Nordic architectural practices. For us, it presented a very exciting opportunity…
As a “social practice” made up of shifting mix of friends and strangers, Svensk Standard’s team for At Work With in the end constituted 13 people – ten architects, one political analyst, one urban planner and one engineer. Larger than ever before, and with thanks to funding from IASPIS (the Swedish Visual Arts Fund’s international programme), we negotiated time off from our professional practices and flew to Venice, to take over Sverre Fehn’s incredible pavilion for the space of a week.
Working in a large interdisciplinary group necessitated the formulation of a structure that would be able to contain and relate our work – a kind of vessel. As we explored potential lines of inquiry we realised that our curiosity in itself was a common characteristic. We all had myths in our heads about Venice – a dying city, sinking; a tourist city, drowning – and about the Biennale, which we all wished in some way to prove or disprove. We chose to describe our project as “archaeology”, working independently to “dredge” the city for artefacts, myths and phenomena and transport them to the pavilion in order to map the reality we found. Some of us very literally trawled the waters of Venice. Others used mechanical animation to bring forgotten objects to life. Others made a thousand paper boats with the visitors to the pavilion, echoing the original industrial output of the Arsenale. Some disproved myths and others created them, and all the while we tried to keep to the simple rule of one project per day per person, presented publically in a group presentation at the end of each day.
Documentation of our work is presented through the At Work With blog.
Project by: Helen Runting, Markus Wagner, Joél Jouannet, Rutger Sjögrim, Karin Matz, Sara Liberg, Anders Berensson, Daniel Johansson, Ola Keijer, Martin Łosoś, Fredrik Andersson, Caroline Ektander and Bree Trevena.
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Posted: November 21st, 2010
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Tomorrow we leave for Venice.
As a part of the residency program At Work With, initiated by Economy and Testbedstudio for the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale this year, we have been invited to make the Nordic Pavilion our office for a week. During this week we will produce small projects on the city of Venice in a production we’d like to call Venice! of the North!
More updates will follow soon. Read them here at our webpage or at the At Work With blog (where you can also read up on the activities of the practices preceding us as residents of the pavilion).
…Or visit us! if you are in Venice. We’ll be at the Nordic Pavillion in the Giardini area of the Biennale and we’ll be there from the 21th of september to the 26th of september.
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Posted: September 20th, 2010
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