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RESOLUTIONS FOR THE ANTARCTIC

International Stations and the Antarctic DataSpace

The exhibition design for “Resolutions for the Antarctic – International Stations & the Antarctic Data Space” was conceived as a three-part layout which aimed to: fulfill an educational purpose, celebrate the presentation of the Antarctic Resolution Open Access and call for greater collaboration amongst Antarctic stakeholders. Upon walking into the space, exhibitors were greeted by the Archive of Antarctic Architecture which unfolded the undertheorized evolution of architecture and infrastructure in our seventh continent. Architectural drawings, archival images and critical essays on all the buildings ever erected on the polar region since its recorded discovery in 1820, were shown chronologically in a timeline placed along the 60-metres long wall of the gallery ramp, raising urgent questions on inhabitation models in the extreme and un-normed territory South of the 60th parallel.At the bottom of the ramp, the gallery was split diagonally in two by a large-scale installation entitled Antarctic Pixels which celebrated at once the analogue manifestation of the collective research and its digital counterpart. Produced by assembling the aluminium offset printing plates of the “Antarctic Resolution”publication, the pixelated surface presented on one side the ink-accepting images engraved to print the thousand pages of the book, while on the other they expose the raw, shimmering, material of the plates which served as a projection surface for the critical documentary “Resolutions for the Antarctic – International Stations and the Antarctic Data Space”. Visitors to the exhibition were invited to sit at the round table positioned opposite to the projection and either enjoy flicking through the hardcopy of the book or indulge in its digital counterpart the “Antarctic Resolution Open Access”.

Project Title: Resolutions for the Antarctic. International Stations & the Antarctic Data Space
Location: John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto
Year: 2023
Status: Completed
Programme: Exhibition
Exhibition Design: UNA
UNLESS Team: Giulia Foscari W. R. (founder), Federica Sofia Zambeletti, Francesca Benetti Genolini
Daniels team: Juan Du, Jeannie Kim, Sifei Mo, Allie Caldwell, Josh Sewell
Inferstudio team: Nathan Su, Beth Edgoose with Lachlan Kermode, Franc Camps-Febrer
Photo Credits © Harry Chois © Emma Hwang

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