A University of Waterloo project, described by The New York Times as “overcoming social and political polarization by replacing hard walls with open environments,” is part of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
Philip Beesley, a School of Architecture professor, along with a team including Rob Gorbet, a Faculty of Environment professor, dozens of Waterloo students and hundreds of other collaborators from around the world created the installation called Grove.
The dream-like artwork includes a canopy of what looks like luminous, lace-like clouds embedded with liquid-filled glass vessels.
Below the canopy, a pool-shaped screen projects the film entitled Grove Cradle. The projection pool is surrounded by what is described as “a forest of totemic, basket-like columns” with embedded custom speakers that carry “a 4DSOUND composition” created especially for the exhibit.
The Venice Biennale is open now until November 21. (full story)