The exhibition is arranged like a matrix. Along the one axis run nine lines, each covering a single flow. These are air, water, biota, food, energy, waste, humans, cargo, and finally sand, sediment and construction materials. Using three levels of analysis, each flow is dissected in a separate pavilion. On the first level, the focus is on the design of the infrastructure itself. The second level shows the potential of thinking in terms of flows for solving environmental problems. The third level shows how the analysis of flows can be deployed as a tool for the design, planning, and control of our cities.
The IABR asked the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) to investigate on a global and national level what the separate key issues and bottlenecks for each flow actually are. Along the other axis, the work of the IABR-Project Atelier Rotterdam shows all of the flows in context, presenting a first synthesis of the metabolic approach.
IABR-2014
Urban by Nature- Status
- Ended
- Date
- 29 May - 24 Aug 2014
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