2 December 2017 – 25 February 2018: <a href="http://www.maxxi.art/en/events/the-independent-urban-think-tank/">MAXXI_Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma</a>
The sixth 2017 edition of THE INDEPENDENT – MAXXI’s programme dedicated to independent realities – focusses on the group Urban-Think Tank (U-TT).
Urban-Think Tank is an interdisciplinary collective that deals with the theoretical and practical applications in architecture and urban design. U-TT was founded in 1998 in Caracas by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, where many of their built works inspired the theory of Città Parangolé, and since 2010 they operate within the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. U-TT works internationally, bringing together people from various disciplines, fostering discourse between developing and developed countries, with a focus on informality and urbanity in areas with relevant situated knowledge.
At MAXXI, Urban-Think Tank presents Città Parangolé, a reflection on, and development of utopian theories with the contemporary urban environment as a setting.  ‘60s artist Hélio Oiticica inspired the concept, where U-TT takes his notion of “life is movement” from the body into the city.  This future city concept is governed by a manifesto where people and movement are central.
Città *Parangolé *has developed over time through case studies exploring the relationship between its theory and the application to contemporary contexts such as Sao Paulo, Brazil and Piacenza, Italy.
THE INDEPENDENT showcases the results of these case studies in the Carlo Scarpa foyer, where an architectural model translates the philosophy of this alternative city concept as a solution for the hypothetical future city of Piacenza. An informative graphic wall juxtaposes life in a generic present-day city with that of the future city. *Città Parangolé *is a sensual and playful city. Experience life in the city with an animated 3D flyover or see how gaming can involve citizens in planning their city. An in-depth theoretical exploration with the relative case studies are documented in an accompanying book.

THE INDEPENDENT / MAXXI_Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Roma

Città Parangolé

Exhibitions

Urban-Think Tank was invited to exhibit its video installation, “Gran Horizonte: Around the Day in 80 Worlds” at the Jeju Art Biennale 2017, located in Jeju, South Korea. This  33-minute, three-channel piece made from an assemblage of U-TT Film’s media archive depicts a typical day across the urban world. The film was produced by Alfredo Brillembourg &#x26; Hubert Klumpner, directed by Daniel Schwartz and Martin Andersson, and made with the support of the Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker-Stiftung.

2017 Jeju Art Biennale

Gran Horizonte

May 26, 2016 – June 30, 2016: <a href="http://www.labiennale.org/">La Biennale di Venezia</a>
Like no other structure in Sarajevo, The People’s Museum stands as a heroic icon of resistance and resilience. Starved of funds and abandoned by the government, citizens have been invited to activate the space themselves, questioning what the 21st century museum can be. From Sarajevo to Caracas, inequality and scarcity are built into our evolving urban geography. Confronted by this reality, architects must rethink how they can operate within the city, learning from its emerging intelligence and shaping its outcomes to radical ends.
This official collateral event of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, presented by Urban-Think Tank at ETH Zürich and Baier Bischofberger Architects, asks a simple question: can a museum be a force for change in a city? Inspired by demonstrations of solidarity and popular ownership, the exhibitors redefine it not as an elitist institution dedicated to the display of objects, but as a catalytic urban space. A temporary strategy of adaptive reuse can compel a new reading of the site and its surroundings. Sheathing the museum in a transparent vinyl skin leaves the decay and patina of the original building intact, while juxtaposing the old and new. The overall effect is a détournement, with the design projecting an oppositional message. The historic structure itself is enclosed as an uncanny artefact, subverting conventional notions of a museum as sterile container.
Alongside architectural proposals for The People’s Museum in Sarajevo, the exhibition also incorporates screenings of the film 1395 Days without Red by renowned artist Anri Sala, a new video by Urban-Think Tank, archival broadcasts from Top Lista Nadrealista,  photographs by Charlie Koolhaas, Jim Marshall, and Daniel Schwartz, and the Si/No retrospective of Urban-Think Tank projects and research worldwide, previously shown in Zürich and Munich.
Selected Press Coverage
<a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149947453/examining-the-2016-venice-biennale-sarajevo-now">“Examining the 2016 Venice Biennale: “Sarajevo Now,” Archinect, 2016</a>
<a href="http://www.designboom.com/architecture/venice-architecture-biennale-urban-think-tank-sarajevo-now-the-peoples-museum-05-31-2016/">“Urban-Think Tank Presents ‘Sarajevo Now,'” Designboom, 2016</a>

The Venice Architecture Biennale

Sarajevo Now

15 May 2018 – 17 May 2018 – <a href="http://www.lacolonie.paris/agenda/caracas-reset">Regards Sur La Création Contemporaine Vénézuélienne: CARACAS RESET!</a>
CARACAS RESET! presented creative works from leading artists, architects and thinkers connected to the Venezuelan crisis, bringing together projects from the diaspora. Marked by mass exodus, the fracture of cultural institutions, economic failure and the birth of new political consciousnesses, the works represent a broad reflection of the process of cultural fragmentation and re-assemblage in a variety of modes.

Location	Paris, France
Year	2018
Curator	Rolando J Carmona
U-TT Leads	Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
U-TT Curator	Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou

Caracas Reset

Paris