Veronika kellndorfer will be exhibiting work in the group exhibition Architectures of Cohabitation.

May 6, 2022

Veronika Kellndorfer is participating in the group exhibition Architectures of Cohabitation—an interdisciplinary meditation on the relationship between architecture and art and how they can intersect to establish a habitable environment for humans and animals alike.

Architectures of Cohabitation pursues the idea that human and non-human beings form an inseparable community. This means that the built environment never belongs only to humans, but that animals and plants have always been its inhabitants as well. To move toward more sustainable cities, we need to think of them not just as habitats for humans alone but also as co-habitats for other species. Architectures of Cohabitation uses five architectural elements - floor, wall, facade, window, and roof - to present design approaches incorporating non-human species as users, occupants, and designers of architecture. In addition to 1:1 prototypes of cohabitation architecture, existing architectural projects and a catalog of architectural elements for cohabitation are presented in the form of market-ready components, material studies, plans, and models in the walk-in showroom.

In order to come to more sustainable cities, we must also understand them as habitats for other species. Under the concept of cohabitation, ARCH+ is investigating the relationship between animals and people in urban space in a multi-year research project. After the exhibition in the silent green Kulturquartier in 2021, which focused on artistic approaches, the Cohabitation city explorations, a comprehensive series of discourses and the ARCH+ publication, the project concludes this year: with the exhibition Architectures of Cohabitation in the SCHAU FENSTER, where concrete architectural solutions are shown and the symposium of the same name in the Zoopolis Berlin series at the Floating University. Here, architects and artists involved in the project discuss with other experts from animal welfare and cohabitation in order to incorporate concrete approaches into architecture and planning and to make them more ecological and inclusive.

A 1:1 prototype of the cohabitation architecture is presented for each element in the exhibition, designed by the architects, designers, and artists Animali Domestici, ChartierDalix, Veronika Kellndorfer, Natural Building Lab / TU Berlin, and Zirkular.