The official publication of the German Pavilion is the 2038 edition of Arts of the Working Class — a multi-lingual, bi-monthly street journal. The magazine is pre-financed by donations and selected advertisements and distributed in cities all over the world via a network of social and cultural institutions. This model allows street vendors to keep 100% of the revenues. Released in June 2020, the first edition brought the (hi)story of 2038 and the Biennale to the streets of the world.
Clemens surfing 2038 x Arts of the Working Class while waiting for the boat by © 20382038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
This is How We Look as a Community
Arts of the Working class launches its journey to 2038. The project builds a bridge between future and past, by extending the dialogue outside of the institutional context.
Index, Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Welcome 2038, The New Serenity
With discussions around relational architecting, property, collective governance, planetary rights, material resources, circular economy, technology and culture. Architecture as a discipline is thus experienced within this issue as a polyphonic spree.
"It Wasn't Easy After All" by Foreign Legion Global, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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"I Love My Time", in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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This we learned. No success without emotions. How do we build a planetary system that functions but does not exclude affects and emotions. We had to take the chance. (Christopher Roth and Olaf Grawert)
"Collective Contracts" by Finley Hoxha in conversation with Diana Alvarez-Marín, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
This is What We Call "Permanent BETA"
A smart social contract between individuals that is constantly updated and reinvented. It is never finished. What we get out of this self-regulating model is a spectrum of answers — in stark contrast to the categories, boxes and classifications of the past. (Diana Alvarez Marin)
"After Zero-Sum: Serenity for Democracy" by Joanna Pope with Audrey Tang, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Begun Prototyping a New Political System
The idea of creating an alternative governance system is no longer something you would have to rent an island for. It’s something you can do right now, in the communities that already exist around you. (Audrey Tang)
"Splendid Isolation" by Ludwig Engel, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Tried Forming a Dance Couple With the Machine
But dance, we must realize, happens between people. Technology, even in its most personalized and empathic form, is nothing but a tool that allows us to relinquish control over the situation, creating balance as an independent third force between actors. (Ludwig Engel)
"New Eelam" by New Eelam, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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"Architecting Space and Time" by 2038, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Learned That Architecture is Never a Finished Object
It is a process that must not be driven by economic interests that lead to competition and artificially created scarcity and make space a commodity. (2038)
Clemens reading in 2038 x Arts of the Working Class by © 20382038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
"Doubling the Marshmallows" by Anna Yeboah, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We are Still Testing & Adjusting to the New Responsibilities
Towards living beings, nature and goods. While some guidelines have already become clear, their implementation is still being tested in small scale experiments. At this point, we dare to analyse what has led to the grand shift in us and our property management. (Anna Yeboah)
"On the 'Growthocene'" by Joanna Pope, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
This New World We Believe Ourselves to Be Living in Exists
But only as an incredibly delicate balancing act between decentralization & recentralization and their multi-scalar negotiations & renegotiations. As long as transnational solidarity allows processes of cooperation and autonomous self-determination to unfold. (Joanna Pope)
Billie: "What took you so long?" by Foreign Legion in AWC N°120: The New Serenity by © 20382038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
"What Took You So Long?" by Foreign Legion Global, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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"The Timbuktu Files" by Lukas Kubina, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Realized That Humans Can Work Cooperatively
On a software platform that became the viable system. Sharing it globally, it became how the world actually convenes. The first milestone for the planetary system was the collaboration with the New State in 2031 ... ” (Lukas Kubina)
"Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2038" by Shwetal Patel for Kochi-Muziris Biennale, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
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"Planetary Rights, At Last!" by Galaad Van Daele, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Were Campaigning and Negotiating for Years
Until the final draft of the Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights has finally been adopted. It will grant legal personhood to ecosystems worldwide, along with inalienable freedoms, and create a new transversal system of existence. (Galaad Van Daele)
"Foor for Thought and Justice" by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Have Faced Social and Spatial Injustice
To me, architecture is a discipline that thrives by borrowing and learning from other fields, as well as a unique tool to understand and design our world. Architecture and urbanism have finally confronted these urgencies. (Charlotte Malterre-Barthes)
"Was kostet die Welt?" by Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
Waste Used to be Material Without Identity — in Anonymity
The problem was neo-liberal thinking. It became ingrained in all spheres of society, to the point of extremely twisted intellectual constructs: Not those who destroyed nature had to pay for its recovery, but the population through taxes. (Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau)
"Material Matters. From Linear to Circular Economy" by Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau with 2038, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
A New Design Has Emerged
One that treats buildings as a raw material stock for the future and shifts our understanding of economy, from linear to circular. (Sabine Oberhuber and Thomas Rau)
"Hundert Jahre Architektieren. 1938-2038" by Christian Posthofen, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We Changed the Code of Architecture: Architecting is Active
"Building" and its economics no longer determine architecture. "Architecting" means reflecting the own system and interacting with all other environmental systems. In this way, decisions that homogenize and hierarchize are avoided in the design process. (Christian Posthofen)
"Advice for Myself in my Twenties" by Jack Self, in Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
We no Longer Feel the Anxiety to be Individually Recognised
It is a crushingly slow discipline, grinding forward towards truths we have known since the 1970s. The death of the great stars—Rem, Renzo, Zaha, Jean, Toyo, Frank—marked perhaps the only significant inflection and killed the personality cult of the heroic visionary. (Jack Self)
Billie surfing 2038 x Arts of the Working Class by © 20382038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
Cover, Arts of the Working Class N°120: The New Serenity by © 2038 x AWC2038 German Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition — La Biennale di Venezia
The second edition of 2038 x Arts of the Working Class will be published in summer 2021 and will feed back into the collaborative programme of the German Pavilion in Venice. The issue will be available in selected stores and institutions and on the streets worldwide.
Editors: Alina Kolar, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Pauł Sochacki
Associated Editors of Issue 120: 2038 - Olaf Grawert
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