B&A Bed and Art's video: PREVIEW Reporting From The Front - A conversation with Pablo Landa Ruiloba Mexican Pavilion

PREVIEW | Reporting From The Front - A conversation with Pablo Landa Ruiloba (Mexican Pavilion). An interview by Marco Petricca. Produced by Bed and Art Edizioni. www.bedandart.it Following a competition that received 286 entries from 26 of the 32 states of Mexico, 31 proposals have been selected to be presented at the Mexican Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale. Narrating the “deep history of social participation in Mexico,” the exhibit, “Unfoldings and Assemblages,” will feature “architectures assembled from fragments, modules, relations, stories, tactics, technologies and construction strategies.” The exhibit will focus on work and experiences that can change, propagate and adapt, rather than closed systems or final products. The pavilion is built around a principal axis of historic manuals. The manuals, and the work connected to them, shifts the focus from architecture’s common perception of unique authors and stand-alone works. These manuals provide the knowledge for self-determination, allowing communities to build their own environments and asking what modern instruments or technologies can further bring the public into architecture. The exhibition pavilion itself is built using the same principles of assemblage and dissemination. Using a repeating system of large structural modules and a textured honeycomb structure - all of which are made stable with rigidly flexed plywood panels – the pavilion exhibits notions of adaptability and resilience.