Venice Biennale Sessions

Disrupt/Displace is a response to Venice Biennale curator, Alejandro Aravena’s request to ‘Report from the Front’: it is simultaneously a critique, performance, and proposal in four parts:

PART 1 Searching for the Front (Ames, Iowa)
PART 2 Constructing the Front (Ames, Iowa)
PART 3 Reporting the Front (Venice, Italy)
PART 4 Colloquium and Conclusions (Venice, Italy)

To read Alejandro Aravena’s full curatorial statement: Reporting from the Front.
More about the Venice Biennale Sessions.

Resulting JAE Article.

Disrupt/Displace
Iowa State University College of Design
Biennale Sessions 2016

REPORTING FROM THE FRONT: NORTH DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE 

BIENNALE SESSIONS WORKSHOP

FACULTY
Shelby Doyle, Assistant Professor
Leslie Forehand, Lecturer

BIENNALE SESSIONS STUDENTS
Andrew Meyer, Graduate Assistant

ISU ARCHITECTURE
Rahul Attraya, Nicole Becker, Sanjukta Chatterji, Jessyka Colon, David Cordaro, Daniel Cowden, Ian Dillon, Tara Follon, Kaihong Gao, Connor Gatzke, Evan Giles, Jinqu Giu, Taylor Hess, Austin Hurt, Erin Hunt, Bethanie Jones, Paavan Joshi, Joshua Kurnia, James Lieven, Kerrick McCann, Hayden Moffitt, Rachel Morrow, Jacob Murphy, Makayla Natrop, Alonso Ortega, Justin Pagorek, Kale Paulsen, Alicia Pierce, Nicholas Raap, Sirina Reed, Samuel Rezac-Contreras, Madeline Schmidt, Sarah Schneider, Rebecca Schodin, Aaron Shadlow, Alba Stoyanova, Andrew Suiter, Wanting Sun, Cale Unzicker, Sonia Trujillo, Elizabeth Walling, Hanchen Zhang, Wentao Zhong

ISU INTERIOR DESIGN
Xiomar Banks, Elizabeth Bixenman, Cyrena Golden-Poole, Abigail Hinchley, Maria Lombardi, Austin Olesen, Hannah Peterson, Collin Powell, Tanya Rome, Caitlin Swenson, Kayley Tuchek

ROMA TRE ARCHITECTURE

Hady Sanad, Marco Smeraglia, Edoardo Pasquali, Nicolò Santini, Francesca Guadagno

BIENNALE SESSIONS COLLOQUIUM

MODERATOR
Deborah Hauptmann, Professor and Chair ISU Architecture

WORKSHOP REVIEW
Jim Cramer, Chairman & Co-Founder, DesignIntelligence, Norcross, GA
Reinier de Graaf, OMA Partner, Director AMO, Rotterdam, NL
Anna Fairbank, Fairbank and Lau PL, Melbourne, AU
Curt Fentress, Fentress Architects, Denver, CO
David Goodman, Director of Undergraduate Architecture, IE Madrid, Segovia,ES
Luis Rico-Gutierrez, Dean ISU College of Design, Ames, IA

COLLOQUIUM SPEAKERS
Reinier de Graaf
Anna Fairbank
David Goodman

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SPONSORS
Iowa State University Department of Architecture
Daniel J. Huberty Faculty Fellowship

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
Iowa State University College of Design

STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT
Karol J Kocimski Scholarship Fund

ADDITIONAL STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT
Steve Rohrbach, Rohrbach Associates, Iowa City, IA
The Durrant Foundation Fund

THANK YOU
Thank you to the above sponsors for financial support, and many thanks as well to the following who made this project possible:

In Rome, Pia Schneider and the administrative staff at the ISU CoD Rome facility; ISU Rome program faculty:  Karen Bermann & Simone Capra (Architecture), Jody Patterson & Simone Bove (Interior Design).

In Ames, the staff of the College of Design and Department of Architecture, particularly Jen Hogan, Director of International Programs.

In Venice: Elisabetta Fiorese, Education and Promotion coordinator, La Biennale di Venezia