Water Works Exhibition
WORKac in collaboration with Musea Brugge and Cultuurcentrum Brugge presented Water Works, WORKac’s first retrospective exhibition featuring projects from the past seventeen years, using the theme of water to illuminate new encounters between the aqueous, the architectural, and the urban. Projects range from the re-imagining of a sink to the design of a theoretical city.
Shown originally at the Poortersloge, in Bruges, Belgium, the exhibition builds on the long and varied history of water infrastructure as it has defined the organization of society and the evolution of architecture. It reconsiders the capacity of water to recast how we understand what is architectural, what is urban, and what is natural.
As water continues to reshape the built environment in this era of extraordinary anthropogenic climate change, Water Works extends an invitation to consider architecture as more than its technical performance, to re-read its relationship to the world across scale, culture, and context, and to imagine new possibilities for how the discipline can conceptualize and iterate alternate futures.
