Exhibition design: Varvara Christopoulou, Panos Dragonas
Curated by: Daphne Dragona, Panos Dragonas

The future never felt closer than it does today. A series of environmental, technological, and social shifts are changing the planet. The Earth resembles a city which keeps on sprawling outwards while other areas are abandoned due to climate change and extreme socio-political conditions. Life in the urban environment is reorganized thanks to intelligent systems constantly processing human and machinic behavior. Artificial ecologies promise to offer solutions to the problems of the ever-growing global population. As diverse images, once belonging to the future, become more and more part of the present, an urge to understand the ongoing phenomena becomes apparent.

The exhibition included a detailed presentation of Electronic Urbanism, a visionary project by Takis Ch. Zenetos that was in progress for more than 20 years. The original models for the house of the future, the city of the future and the furniture for the year 2000 were shown in public for the first time since 1971. The original presentation drawings were scanned and digitally reproduced. The exhibition also included archival material such as Zenetos’s personal notes and sketches which have never been exhibited before.

May 16th – July 16th 2017, Diplareios School, Athens -GR

Organized by: Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens / Christos J. Carras

Organization: Konstantina Soulioti

Technical Planning & Supervision: TENSOR S.A. (G. S. Papadimitriou & M. Pantelidaki)

Lighting: L4A “Lighting for Architecture”

Visual Design: Beetroot

Photos: Mariana Bisti