Look around you! Everything that meets the eye has left a void. Everything you rely on in your everyday physical environment takes part in an operation that translates mountains into gravel, forests into clay pits, and villages into sand mines. Everything you touch was once in touch with another environment.

Today, the building and construction sectors account for 39% of total carbon emissions and 40% of global waste output. Digging, demolition, and dumping are the rules of this zero-sum game, where the habitability of some always entails the inhabitability of others, altering ecosystems into areas unfit to sustain life.

Exhibition Project

The exhibition project Commission on Circularity operates at the nexus of documentation and recommendation. On one front, it gathers world-leading researchers, artists, curators, and designers to construct an archive exploring ways of making the material economies of architecture visible via tangible objects, models, cartographies, concepts, and narratives. A sequence of events, comprising witness statements from experts, will perform, unfold and extend the archive during the exhibition period.

Credits

Contributors

Global Extraction Observatory, Amelyn Ng, Marija Maric & Francelle Cane, Nina Canell, Countdown 2030, Ang Li, Materia Prima, Metasitu, Beauty of Oil, Jonathan Foote, Ecology of Stone, Lendager Group, Margarida Waco, and Students from the Royal Danish Academy.

CAFx Team

Josephine Michau, Søren Nørkjær Bang, Valeria Granillo, Alexandra Wedderkopp Emelianov, Xenia Hitz, Kaiu Meiner.

The Exhibition Project is Supported by

Dreyers Fond, Realdania, Statens Kunstfond, and the Municipality of Copenhagen.

Opening Hours and Admission

The window exhibition can be experienced 24/7, free of charge.

If you want to know more about the exhibition, you are welcome to drop by our space at Halmtorvet 27. It is open to the public every Friday from 13:00 to 17:00, granting full access to the archive.

Admission to the space is 30 DKK; it is free for members of CAFx Community.

Public Program

The Commission on Circularity invites a series of prominent Danish architects to propose new circular legislation during a series of assemblies occurring from June to September, creating a temporary space for exploring law as a site of design. Here, the methods of architecture will be reconsidered, and the fabric of governance rewoven with the ethos of circularity and the expertise of architectural practice, giving rise to a new legal lexicon for shaping a new societal architecture. Read more about the event program below.

Guests: Justine Bell from Djernes & Bell, Søren Nielsen Vandkunsten, Anders Lendager from Lendager Group, Sinus Lynge from EFFEKT, Pil Thielst from Lundgaard & Tranberg.