Exhibited ecology. On Taking the country’s side

Abstract

To cope with the overwhelming feeling of powerlessness induced by the environmental crisis nowadays, architecture exhibitions dealing with the themes of ecology and sustainability can play a fundamental role in building a collective consciousness that could help people manage or, at least, understand contemporary ecological issues.

Against this background, this article discusses the case of the exhibition Taking the Country’s Side: Agriculture and Architecture by architecture theorist Sébastien Marot, which is analyzed through the study of its evolution as well as through the reconstruction of the curator’s thought.