2025
together with Manon Cools (journalist)
This proposal aims to deliver an icon itself for the first edition of LINE, the Armenian Architecture Biennial, and for the next ones to come. The Teatro del Mondo isn’t located in a specific public space or exhibition venue, but floating in front of the Venetian island. Likewise, the intervention presented in this application embraces the nomadic ambitions of LINE.
The pavilion works as a moving radio station, that aims to connect people in their own time and space.
It enables citizens and other international visitors to address one another through a live and in person broadcasting program. Moreover, this can include interviews, voice messages, podcasts, music, etc.
In the public spaces selected on this map, listeners will participate to the communicative line and it will last for the whole biennial period (the routes shown on the map are indicative and based on conversations with locals).
Together with the radio station, the nomadic installation will be provided with a weather acquisition system that tops-up the architecture of the object. Through this device the aim is to monitor the urban environment and aknowledge people about the condition of the context they live in. Run by solar energy, it will be used to collect data on the air pollution
(PM 2.5 and PM 10 percentages mostly) of different public spaces throughout the city, defining those that need more or less improvement in the near future. After the data collection process, the radio station will therefore be used to daily inform people of the air quality issue, too.
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