Studio Najbrt:

The second year of the international “summit celebrating inspiring design, development and positive impact on quality of life in cities” with our visuals has the subtitle Accommodate. It asks what it means to be a better city when “gentrification and rising costs of living pose considerable challenges for city leaders, investors, planners and architects to design a city that works for everyone”. The heart of the city, which was taken over by nature last year, got under the knife now, cut into floors and occupied by inhabitants. The futuristic vision somewhere between Zaha Hadid and Jan Kaplický’s Future Sytems together with the American optimistic energy of the organizers turned happy even the usually melancholic illustrations by Jan Šrámek. The over-the-moon Utopia of a merry planet with acrobats and magpies reminds us of our lopsided situation.

For everyone interested in acoustics and architecture MAAT museum and reSITE brought the world’s best creators of sound spaces and experiences to a one-day international event in Lisbon. The main visual motif of the event became the transformation of a curve of a record of pronouncing the word RESONATE into a 2D / 3D shape. Sound as an illusion of material is the cornerstone of a play in which everyone can record their own sounds and build streets, cities, and entire worlds from the resultant building blocks.