2086: Together How?

2086: Together How? is a book about the project in the Korean Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, but not limited to. Curated by its Artistic Directors Soik Jung and Kyong Park, the exhibition interrogated our Faustian ideology of progress and how we have sought unlimited material pleasure through industrialization, colonization, and globalization. Asserting that the making of new ecocultural paradigm is a must for our survival in the climate change, the book suggests that the environmental crisis is the last and best chance to better our humanity. 

2086: Together How? begins with six essays about “Tomorrow’s Myth,” in collaboration with “e-flux architecture,” followed by a quiz show that invites the participants to make decisions on social, political, and economic issues that impact the climate endgame. Along with three collaborations between architects and community activists about future possibilities in a big city, a small city, and rural communities in South Korea, it also includes a video project about a fictional “child-god” who can predict the future of climate endgame. 

Texts by
Eman Abdelhad+M. E. O’Brien, Alice Bucknell, Federico Campagna, Serang Chung, Yunjeong Han, Nahyun Hwang+David Eugin Moon, Jaekyung Jung, Soik Jung, Yerin Kang+Lee Chi-hoon, Wolsik Kim, Hyewon Lee, Kyong Park and Yehre Suh