In(Visible) Energy | The Bartlett School of Architecture

With In(visible) Energy, from the B-Made experimental workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, the question of the role that consciousness and emotion play in the incorporation of new energy sources is posed.

Musicians, scientists, architects, and engineers use the pebbles of the Pavilion as a reference to experiment with the fundamental forces of the known universe.

They explore a “less is more” approach applied to energy resources that points towards lightness and simplification through knowledge, allowing the amount of energy consumed over a lifetime to fit into the volume of a pebble, instead of weighing, as it does now, as much as all the marbles of the Pavilion combined.

Electromagnetic force holds stacks of pebbles in the middle of the pond, a stone levitates weightlessly above its pedestal, prototypes of the pebbles recreated with new materials rest on the onyx, different sounds make the air or water vibrate, and the videos and narratives of the research processes followed reveal new horizons and make the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion a platform for inspiration in innovation, just as it was originally.

If you want to attend the inauguration on Friday the 25th at 18:00, with the presence of some of its authors, reserve your ticket here.

Ass. Prof Luke Olsen / Ass. Prof Graeme Williamson / Prof. Josep Miàs / Melis van den Berg / Dr. Christopher Leung / Hamish Veitch / Martha Stevens / Izzy Watson / Orlando George-Ibitoye / Gabe Brown (UCL Team). Cristina Castany / Arnau Miàs / Mauro Soro (BCN Team). Leon Chew (visual art) / Sandy Davis, Bernat Ginot & Júlia Pallarès (audio / visual art).