‘What do we…?’, exhibition view at culture centre SODAS 2123. Photo by Laurynas Skeisgiela © Courtesy of ‘Architektūros fondas’.

Photo reportage from Architektūros fondas’ exhibition What do we...? in SODAS 2123, Vilnius

2022 12 27

Exhibition participants: Agnė Rubytė, Evelina Ąžuolaitytė, Oles Makukhin, Erik Vojevodin, Evelina Bartusevičiūtė, Magdalena Beliavska, Emilija Rakutienė, Lukas Jusas, Augustas Lapinskas, Kamilė Vasiliauskaitė, Aistė Gaidilionytė, Augusta Orlauskaitė, Ieva Julija Bagdonaitė
Mentors of the Experiments' Platform: Architecture uncomfortable workshop, Millonaliu, Miodrag Kuč, Erika Henriksson
Exhibition curator and architect: Gabrielė Černiavskaja
Coordinator: Gabrielė Janilionytė
Lighting: Justas Bø
Architektūros fondas' activities are financed by: Lithuanian Council for Culture
Media partner: LRT
Friends: Comfort Hotel LT

Exhibition What do we…? is the result of the six-month alternative architecture education programme called Experiments’ Platform, organised by Architektūros fondas.

The exhibition focuses on three questions that were asked during the second season of the programme: “What do we have?”, “What do we need?”, and “What do we want?”. These questions allowed the participants to explore different paths of research and opened up three interconnected pathways for their work.

The first question, “What do we need?”, served as an invitation to consider the present with a glimpse of the future. It encouraged participants to raise ecological and geopolitical awareness and to explore the functional and dysfunctional aspects of the present. The second question, “What do we have?”, encouraged participants to investigate existing resources not only in terms of materiality but immateriality as well. The final question, “What do we want?”, led participants to explore their dreams, personal desires, speculative futures, and, sometimes, self-centredness, moving away from the role of an architect.

During the second season of the Experiments’ Platform, the 13 participants of the platform, with the help of mentors, developed their thoughts and alternative approaches to architectural practice in the context of these three questions. The processes that took place during the programme were presented in the complex spaces of cultural centre SODAS 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania. We invite you to view moments from this process in the exhibition.