In times of the Anthropocene when humanity has become a geological force shaping the planet, we urgently need new ways of thinking about the spaces we live in. This project scales down the Anthropocene to a level that every one of us can relate to: a single apartment.
“The Anthropocene Apartment” draws on environmental history to analyse and show the exhibition space’s own ecological footprint: the materials it consumes, the environments both near and far it exploits, the energy used to build it that still slumbers within its walls. It employs architecture to suggest new and less disruptive ways of designing our homes and engaging with the world around us.
Lenka Holcnerová, Pavla Šimková, Tarık Dindar
Lenka Holcnerová is a Lisbon-based architect and director of the architecture office Atelier Holcnerova. She specializes in urban reconstructions and explores the connections between energy sources and the structure of cities. Her diploma work Between Ocean and Land focused on intersections between energy production and public space, a theme she continues to develop in her architectural practice.
Pavla Šimková is an environmental historian based in Munich, Germany. Her research focuses on North American and Central European environmental history, island studies, and the environmental history of cities. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands (2021), explored how cities shape and connect to their ecological surroundings.
Tarık Dindar is an architect based in Bursa, Turkey. Throughout his university years, he actively participated in numerous architectural competitions and served as a rapporteur in architecture juries. He has worked in architecture studios both in Turkey and Portugal, first as an intern and later as a licensed architect. He is currently working with Atelier Holcnerová in Lisbon.