Following the exhibition Reset Materials – Towards Sustainable Architecture, which ran from June-September 2023 at Copenhagen Contemporary, a new book captures the processes and outcomes of the event. Beyond the content of the exhibition, the publication also offers interviews, reports and essays on the subject by Amalie Smith, Galaad van Daele, and Victor Boye Julebæk with Nicolai Bo Andersen and others.

Editor: Chrissie Muhr
Authors: Galaad van Daele, Kathrin Gimmel, Victor Boye Julebæk & Nicolai Bo Andersen, Marianne Krogh, Chrissie Muhr, Amalie Smith
 
ISBN: 9788774070030
Release Date: Sept 27th, 2023

Published by Danish Architectural Press

Image © Hampus Berndtson,

About the exhibition

Reset Materials positions itself in the space between art and architecture, yet retains a clear agenda towards that of sustainability – delivered through materials and processes that range from the forgotten to the cutting-edge.

The experimental and work-in-progress nature of the exhibition is owing to the curatorial approach, (external curator/architect Chrissie Muhr, in collaboration between Copenhagen Contemporary and the Danish Association of Architects), which brought together 10 interdisciplinary teams made up of architects, artists and manufacturers/producers. The working groups took a range of approaches to materials,  from re-use of existing and harvesting of natural resources, to the development of new processes.

The resulting space borders on art-exhibition aesthetic, presenting large-scale material assemblages, each thoughtfully displayed using simple, everyday building materials. The element of novelty and scale makes the content hard to dismiss, raising curiosity and further discussion on the pertinent topic of sustainable architecture.