Nordic-Baltic Architecture Festivals Forum: Inter-institutional Space in the Age of Hyperpolitics

The Estonian Center for Architecture participates in the Nordic-Baltic Forum for Architecture Festivals: Inter-institutional Space in an Age of Hyperpolitics, a Nordic-Baltic short-term network of Nordic Council of Ministers (Nordic Culture Point). The leading partner of the cooperation network is the Copenhagen Architecture Forum, which organises the Copenhagen Architecture Biennale.

In addition to the Estonian Centre for Architecture, which organizes the Tallinn Architecture Biennale, the partners are Färgfabriken from Stockholm, which organizes the Stockholm Architecture Biennale, as well as the two other institutions – the Lithuanian National Institute of Architecture (NAI) and the Helsinki Museum of Architecture and Design who are in the process of developing the new institution and museum and therefore in need for investigating and networking on new festival formats on architecture.

The aim of the cooperation network is to unite the Nordic and Baltic architectural platforms operating in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Kaunas and Helsinki to create a strategic exchange of experiences and concepts in today’s time of hyperreality and hyperculture. The conceptual purpose of this network aims:

1. To develop strategies for the reuse of materials and curatorial concepts in institutional spaces in order to strengthen the ecological, economic and discursive dimensions of the participating institutions.
2. To strengthen the institutional conditions that recognise art and architecture as inherently slow processes shaped by the gradual integration of the various cultural, social and conceptual influences of frontier thinking, and to recognise their role in fostering long-term innovation by resisting the rapid demands of political and economic forces, while at the same time engaging with them dynamically in order to reflect and shape the broader societal paradigm. The two-day working meetings and seminars of the cooperation network will take place in 2025 and 2026 in three countries – Denmark, Sweden and Estonia. The venues are Copenhagen Architecture Forum in Copenhagen, Färgfabriken in Stockholm and the Estonian Centre for Architecture in Tallinn, respectively. At the end of the project a joint manifesto of participants will be published on the websites of all partners.