A galaxy of designers, architects, artists, theorists, filmmakers, historians, scientists, labs, centers, institutes, and NGOs respond to ARE WE HUMAN?, the polemical curatorial manifesto of Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. In an installation designed by Andres Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation, the entire School of Architecture building will be filled with a dense collage of overlapping provocations on the question ARE WE HUMAN?

Art meets science meets reflection meets speculation in a new kind of conversation about design. The exhibition thinks about the fact that the human is unique in its capacity to design but is also continuously redesigning itself in a never-ending loop that flings it into the world in unexpected ways. The human is a question mark and design is simply the way of engaging with that question. The overall effect is a kaleidoscope of artistic, technical, philosophical, theoretical, and ethical reflection on the intimate relationship between “design” and “human.”

This version of the ongoing ARE WE HUMAN? project presents a slice of the original 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, including Forensic Architecture’s installation Ape Law, with the aim of continuing the urgent trans-disciplinary conversation launched there.

The opening, featuring presentations by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, will be held at 5:00pm on 6 November 2017 at the School of Architecture.

For more information, visit the Princeton SOA  website here.