The Chicago Biennial is set to launch this weekend with a flurry of events and exhibitions, including Archinect's live podcasting event Next Up. Alongside the Biennial’s programming are a slew of periphery events located around the city and spanning the spectrum of architectural topics. Near the top of our list is Future Not Found, a "para-tour" of the Chicago Board of Trade led by Dry Futures jury members GRNASFCK on Friday morning.
Last year, we profiled GRNASFCK, a nomadic landscape architecture studio that operates along the borderlands of ecology and architecture and focuses on "the geologic past and speculative future." Led by Colleen Tuite and Ian Quated, GRNASFCK leads research expeditions across diverse landscapes, with an eye towards the invisible forces that shape our cities – from extremophile bacteria to resource speculation.
Abandoning their sampling kits for the weekend (or maybe not), Tuite and Quate will lead an archaeologic tour of the world's largest futures and options exchange, considering the implications of the 2015 announcement that the exchange would complete the switch from physical, "outcry floor trading" to a "purely electronic system."
"'Futures' markets actively wager on crop performance, natural resource extraction, and climate events compared to a background of previous seasons," states GRNASFCK in the project brief. "With increasing climate disruption more energy has entered into the market (in the form of atmospheric carbon) creating an economic engine now entirety automated, amplifying the toposphere with weather patterns projected onto a global economy."
"Now, decades later, post-XXXX, when trading is algorithmic and currency digital," they continue, "we return to the petrified temple of meteorological capitalism, as anthropologists looking for clues indicating why this artisan trading system evaporated and what it means for the now-present future."
GRNASFCK will reprise the tour the very next day with a second iteration at the New York Mercantile Exchange, beginning at Princeton University.
Future Not Found is part of a series of "Paratours" organized by Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism, including one led by the Next Up: Los Angeles participant Andrew Kovacs, that seek to "expose the real – and fictional – motivations behind fragments of the built environment."
Future Not Found begins on Friday, October 2 at 10:30 am. For more information and to RSVP, click here.
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where did I read this morning 'automated' trading helped recent financial crisis accelerate, possibly even cause it...
Oh, I get it. Their name is an abbreviation of Green as Fuck.
How preciously insurgent.
I'll bet they call their parents by their first names, too. Bold!
I first thought it stood for Groan as Fuck, since that's what I do everytime I read it.
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