2038, the German Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, invites you to discover a story between fact and fiction. It is based on the knowledge and visions of a collaborative team of international experts from architecture, art, ecology, economy, philosophy, politics, science, and technology. Together, the team behind 2038 strives to explore our future society through prefigurative politics, illustrating modes of organization and social relationships to come. In a series of films reporting from both the fictive present and past of 2038, it tells the story of a better world in which everything, though imperfect, is better in some pretty profound and radical way.
Today, in the year 2038, we have mastered the great crises. It was close, but we made it. The ecological, social and economical disasters of the 2020s brought people, states, institutions and companies together. They committed themselves to fundamental rights and co-created viable, adaptable systems and legal frameworks on a global basis, giving decentralized, local structures the space to maintain and create diverse models of coexisting. Technology and big data helped turn new and old ideas into reality. And often architects were part of the dénouements because they brought answers instead of further questions. Drama is now history. We live in a radical democracy, in a radical bureaucracy. On a planet that doesn’t know or need heroes or villains.
Trailer "The New Serenity 2038"