Volume 68 Launch at Eenwerk, AmsterdamVolume 68 Launch at Eenwerk, Amsterdam

Architecture and design have a long legacy of operating from inside their respective bubbles: reinforcing their own aesthetics, logic, networks and vocabulary with the effect of becoming self-referential and exclusive. These bubbles shape who architects collaborate with, how projects take form, and ultimately, who benefits from spatial production.

Marking the occasion of Volume’s contribution to the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Carlo Ratti, Volume 68 hosted 13 conversations in which architects and designers meet inspiring figures outside of their bubble to find points of engagement and exchange notes on professional practices. The participants are Andrea González, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Gabriel Fontana, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Juana Salcedo, Julia Minson, Netherlands Angry Architects, Paul Cournet, Rem Koolhaas, Rimini Protokoll, WAI Think Tank, Ludwig Engel, David Zilber, Silvia Dal Dosso, Andy Piper, Pelin Tan, Sjeng Scheijen, Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, Peter van Assche, Hanno Pijl, Félix “Tito” Trinidad, Roger Bernat, Olivier Létang, Céline Zimmer, Paulette Lenert and Evgeny Morozov.

Volume is a bi-annual magazine for architecture and design and is a collaboration between Archis and Nieuwe Instituut. The magazine is a cross-pollinator between the in-depth editorial content of Volume and the research and programmes of the Nieuwe Instituut, while maintaining its editorial independence.