^{Dave van Toor}

^{Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, 2021}

The exhibition NOW! has been set up but cannot be opened to the public due to the lockdown. However, 150 students, two academies and one IABR are hell-bent on bringing you its content.

NOW! FROM APRIL 5 THROUGH MAY 26 ON INSTAGRAM
@downtoearth_now

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@iabr_downtoearth
@kabkdesign
@ravb010

IABR–DOWN TO EARTH asks: Where can we land?
In response, the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAvB) and the Graphic Design (BA) and Non Linear Narrative (MA) departments of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) are devoting their educational programs to exploring how designers should relate to the climate crisis and what action they can take.
How can we organize our lives and our living environment in such a way that the future is sustainable? How do we deal with the shortcomings of "modernity as a project"? What values should we embrace and what should we say goodbye to?

^{Petra Eros, Visual Essays TIME'S UP}

^{Graphic Design BA, Royal Academy for the Arts, The Hague, 2020}

400 Posters
This exhibition centers on the more than 400 posters that, arranged in a horizontal grid, almost fill the entire space of the Keilezaal. This field of posters is mounted between four notions to which design should relate: the extremes, the other, the commons, and the departure – the four thematic lines of the exhibition.

^{Ties Kwekel}

^{Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, 2021}

The grid also accommodates ecological elements. The posters question, each in a different way, how design, designing, and especially designers relate to the climate crisis.
The posters were made by more than 150 students, 120 from the RAvB and 30 from the KABK.

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