February 26, 2025, 6:30 PM
Auditorium. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bonemisza
PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSIONUnraveling the process of Building for Quantium, with Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa and Aran García-LekueParticipants: Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa and Aran García-Lekue
Age recommendation: All audiences.
Language: Spanish.
In this new session of the public program
Organismo Year One,
Marina Otero, architect and researcher, and
Manuel Correa, filmmaker and researcher, will present the research and creative process behind the film that accompanies the video installation
Building for Quantum. This work will be featured in the upcoming 19th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale— “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” —and will premiere during the event's inauguration in May this year.
The film
Building for Quantum follows the construction of the building that will host one of the few quantum computers in the world, the first in Spain. As quantum computing redefines the boundaries of knowledge, this film, still in process, examines the imaginaries and aspirations surrounding the arrival of this technology at the Quantum Basque Center in Donostia-San Sebastián. The film navigates the intersection of the physical and the philosophical within quantum architecture—juxtaposing the tangible, ordinary materials of brick and mortar with the meticulous precision required to sustain near-perfect vacuum chambers at temperatures colder than deep space.
The event will feature
Aran García-Lekue, physicist and PhD in materials science and technology who specializes in the development and application of computational tools for the simulation of quantum electronic properties at the nanoscale. With her, we will explore the principles of these theories, which have been counterintuitive for humans so far, and the horizons that may emerge from their instrumentalization. The three will engage in a conversation to unravel the potentials of this science and the paradigm shift it represents compared to classical mechanics, according to which we have traditionally organized our ways of living.
This activity is part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
Free admission until full capacity is reached, after downloading the free ticket here. A quota of 20% of the capacity is reserved for access without a ticket on the day of the event.April 1, 2025, 6:30 PM
Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de Arganzuela (Paseo de la Chopera, 10, Madrid)
CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATIONEarth Works (Toward a reparation architecture), with Paulo TavaresParticipants: Paulo Tavares
Age recommendation: All audiences.
Language: English (with simultaneous translation into Spanish).
Collaborators: Caja Negra Editora
Drawing from past and recent visual, spatial, and curatorial projects that deal with the Earth, in this activity of the public program of
Organismo Year One, Brazilian architect, author, and educator
Paulo Tavares, who recently published
La naturaleza política de la selva (
The Political Nature of the Forest, Caja Negra, 2024), will explore the tentative concept of “reparation architecture.”
According to Tavares, “Reparation Architecture is not a theme; it is a form of engagement. It is not a qualifier as in ‘social architecture,’ but a position in relation to architecture as knowledge and practice. As such, it can take many forms across the trans-disciplinary fields where architectural thought and action manifest, from design to curating, from planning to publishing, from advocacy to building. Imagining a future in which healing and rebounding society means recovering land and restoring the climate, we may prompt ideas for the repair of human and nonhuman communities through the means and medias of architecture, drawing new material and imaginary bounds between us and Earth. If our most urgent political task today is re-building the world differently, reparations constitute a central question to architecture practice across its trans-scalar, trans-disciplinary, and trans-media manifestations.”
Free admission until full capacity is reached, after downloading the free ticket here. A quota of 20% of the capacity is reserved for access without a ticket on the day of the event.