The fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) will be led by the Floating Museum, a Chicago collective of artists and designers that focuses on large-scale, site-specific installations created in concert with public institutions. The Floating Museum’s members—architect Andrew Schachman and artists avery r. young, Faheem Majeed, and Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford—will be the first organized group to serve as the biennial’s artistic directors, and they plan to kick off the production and curation cycle with a design summit in November.
The theme for the 2023 biennial, opening next September, will be “This Is a Rehearsal,” focusing on the constant state of building and unbuilding that cities experience—“a perpetual state of transformation,” as Rachel Kaplan, the CAB’s permanent director, describes it. “A lot of this has to do with how municipal authorities, institutions, constituencies of the city, individual designers, practitioners, and activists collaborate to produce the city,” says Schachman. “The entire region is 10 million people collaborating to produce the city every day.”
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