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.

Paris

Caracas Reset

Exhibitions

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

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

21 January 2018 – 24 February 2018 – <a href="http://civic-city.org/places/barcelone-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2">CIVIC CITIES NETWORK #horspistes13 / Centre Pompidou</a>
In a world where a large majority of the population lives and works in cities, their role and responsibilities are bigger every day. Perhaps more aware of global interdependencies, often more open and progressive than nations, they start to connect and talk in synergy about the great challenges of our planet. With such prospects to contend with, Civic City focuses on ‘public space’ as a new type of proximity common area.

Location	Paris, France
Year	2018
Co-Directors	Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Core Team	Melanie Fessel, Diego Ceresuela, Michael Walczak
Partners	Ruedi Baur, Vera Baur, Prof. Christophe Girot
Institutional Partners	Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, Bogotá
Student Assistants	Maximilian Appel, Joel Zimmerli
Students	Maximilian Appel, Paweł Bejm, Annamaria Bonzanigo, Michèle Fardel, Mélanie Lai, Joël Simmern, Matthias Stadler, Joel Zimmerli

Places en Relation

Centre Pompidou, Paris