“Rebuild, reinhabit, rethink” is the motto around which this edition of Mugak/ is focused
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IED Kunsthal Bilbao to participate in the Basque Country International Architecture Biennial MUGAK/ 2023 through workshops, conferences and exhibitions
Date
17 October 2023
The Basque Country International Architecture Biennial Mugak/ (or Boundaries, in English) celebrates its fourth edition, consolidating it as one of the key architectural events in Europe.
This year, it delves deeper into its ambition of being an open space, as a result of the cooperation among different actors, such as IED Kunsthal Bilbao, to become a meeting point with citizens, highlighting the importance of architecture as the backbone of the quality of the inhabited environment.
The current edition, focusing on the motto “Rebuild, reinhabit, rethink”, proposes a programme of over 100 free activities, open to the public, with the aim of generating conversations and reflections that connect with the debates taking place at a global level.
IED Kunsthal Bilbao will participate through the following activities:
Talk ‘Re-thinking the city through landscape design’
9 November at 5 pm at IED Kunsthal Bilbao.
An open lecture conducted by the Landscape Designer and Teacher Mikel García de Eulate from SOiL Arquitectura del Paisaje on the possibilities and solutions provided by landscape design to “Rebuild, Rehabit, Rethink” the city.
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Workshop ‘Reuse of riverbank structures in the Bilbao estuary’
14 November from 8.30 am to 7 pm at IED Kunsthal Bilbao
A one-day workshop in which the existing structures along the Bilbao estuary and the options to regenerate and adapt them to give them a new life will be explored.
Led by Ricardo Ruiz, Architect and Teacher of the Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, expert in architecture and urban planning, along with the Photographer Aitor Ortiz, whose work is closely linked to architecture, industrial memory and urban transformation.
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Exhibition ‘Off MUGAK/ BLOOM II’
Guided Tour on 19 November in Cristina Enea Park, Donostia-San Sebastián
‘Bloom’ explores, on a small scale, our relationship with nature when it forms part of the urban public space; the power of green spaces within the city on social, ecological, productive or leisure levels as an attempt to make life in cities more sustainable, healthy and friendly.
Third-year students of the Bachelor of Arts in Product Design from IED Kunsthal Bilbao will participate with a piece that they have worked on together in this collective intervention taking place in one of the most visited natural public spaces in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián, the Cristina Enea Park.
The guided tour on 19 November will visit the different pieces that invite a reflection on our relationship with this space.
Project ‘Rhizoma’
‘RHIZOMA’ [‘RHIZOME’] is a project by the architects Victoria Collar and Jon Garbizu (Garbizu Collar Architecture), Gonzalo Peña (KRI), and Diego Sologuren, Teacher of the Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design at IED Kunsthal Bilbao, alongside the Egoin Wood Group and in collaboration with Chillida Leku.
It is an essay that travels through the territory of the demystification of the baserri, the Basque farmhouse, and the romanticisation of the rural world. It seeks to remove this historical structure from anachronism in a bid to redefine and adapt its genealogy through new ways to inhabit the rural environment. The proposal will be divided into four acts: HAS- (to begin), SOR- (to create), BER- (to re-do) and BIZ- (to inhabit).
Second- and third-year students from the Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design will participate in the activity proposed on 21 October, a collective immersion in the Otsozabal farmhouse in Larraul, Gipuzkoa, with the idea of revealing traces, rethinking spaces and constructing stories.
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