WEATHER engages The Weather Makers – a multidisciplinary team that vies to address large scale environmental/climate issues with holistic engineering and nature based approaches and strategies. TWM work on projects of very large dimensions in space and time, generally attempting to directly communicate with ecological systems by ‘seeding’ processes that trigger/restore/re-start addressable complex systems and their regulating feedback loops.

Ongoing projects include ‘Re-Greening’ the Sinai Peninsula, and the Eco Oasis system which combines several ecologically and societal relevant biochemical transformative processes including fresh water harvesting and sequestration of greenhouse gasses.

Ties Van der Hoeven, is the co-founder and Creative Director of The Weather Makers. He is an entrepreneur in the fields of sustainability, engineering, visualization and gaming. Van her Hoeven combines a background on hydraulic engineering and experience as project manager and business developer on large infrastructure projects.

For more information on The Weather Makers work visit their website.

Recommended pre-event materials >> “Green Gold” documentary

FOUNDATIONS SERIES.
Hosted by Carla Leitao

The FOUNDATIONS Series asks what layers will we purposely engrave, carry, remember and honor; and which clean slates will we want to produce – which assemblies will we step onto/into? Inspired by the increasingly connected “Spaceship Earth” (as named by Buckminster Fuller), the FOUNDATIONS series zooms into key moments of written material, systems, ideas around world building, making and thinking – proposing discussions on the new futures for life and livability, envisioned for our shared planet and beyond.

Any act of design integrates the foundations that ground us by both willfully ignoring and also actively relearning those foundations. The concept of the Anthropocene – accompanied by the Anthrobscene, or the Novacene – helped name and point at processes, contexts, figures, diagrams and agents of the transformation of our ‘ground’. With these reframings, we begin processes of inquiry into how to inherit pasts, inhabit presents and what to lay as groundworks or structuring foundations for an uncertain future.

FOUNDATIONS is a series of events, convened by Carla Leitao, at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion, Sezione del Padiglione Italia. Curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University and Alessandro Melis Portsmouth University titled CITYX Venice responds to ‘How will we live together?’ curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is open until the 21st of November.