Groundwork

The Canadian Centre for Architecture presents Groundwork, a three-part film and exhibition series that looks at the cultivation of alternative modes of engagement with new project sites. Groundwork will follow Xu Tiantian to Meizhou Island off the coast of China where she is creating a set of interventions to mediate between pressures of heritage and tourism with marine ecology. A second episode focuses on the work of bplus.xyz (b+) based in Berlin, Germany as they organize a European Citizens’ Initiative to shift culture and legislation toward preservation and rehabilitation of the existing building stock. The series closes by following Carla Juaçaba to the heart of Minas Gerais, Brazil where she is developing pavilions in a coffee field.