Chicago architecture biennial | cab5
CAB x GARY, IN
Steel Studio is excited to participate in the fifth edition of CAB, This is a Rehearsal led by Floating Museum.
The program kicks off on September 21 and runs through January 2, 2024.
About the Biennial >
Floating Museum (pictured) Faheem Majeed, Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, Andrew Schachman, averyr.young | Photo credits: Steve Metzer
The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to imagine and collectively shape the future of design. CAB’s programs are committed to producing opportunities to explore and address timely global issues through the lens of architecture and design, emphasizing community input, sustainability, and equity. Free and open to the public, CAB is North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture.
The Biennial is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to creating an international forum on architecture and urbanism. The inaugural 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial was a vision for a major international architectural event and an outcome of the comprehensive cultural plan developed by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events under the leadership of Michelle T. Boone.
ABOUT CAB AND THE FIFTH EDITION >
Curatorial focus: The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, CAB 5: This is a Rehearsal curated by the interdisciplinary arts collective the Floating Museum, which takes an expansive view of design as an iterative rehearsal process to explore architecture, cities, and the different social, ecological, economic and political forces that shape them. From artists, architects, engineers, performers, poets, and others, the practitioners represented in CAB 5 collectively set the stage for the cross-pollination of ideas to challenge and envision alternatives for the following: how we understand and address the needs of a city, who plays a role in imagining and making the city, and how our potential solutions attend to the overlapping crises that now inform our everyday lives. Cities are always evolving—continuously shaped and reshaped by the millions of people who inhabit them through action and reaction. Over time, the accumulation of buildings and infrastructure creates a layered index of the ideals and policies of past generations. Rehearsal invites new possibilities through open dialogue, creative invention, and a generative discovery process to understand how hope and care can emerge in architecture. Harnessing dialogue is paramount to CAB 5’s conception of rehearsal. It is a productive tool that establishes new lines of thinking questioning the status quo through modes ranging from conversations and performances to installations, drawings, and new technologies. In this sense, CAB 5 welcomes alternative ways of making architecture and engages everyone to rethink, rework, and reimagine the present and future of cities.