Diagrams. A Project by Amo/Oma
Mainetti, Mario
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Add to basketVenezia, Ca' Corner della Regina, May 10 - November 24, 2025. Edited by Mario Mainetti. Introduction by Miuccia Prada. With Italian translations. Graphic Design: Irma Boom. English Text. Milano, 2025; paperback in a case, pp. 448, 369 col. ill., cm 21x28. Conversation between Rem Koolhaas and Katya Inozemtseva Texts by Alberto Cairo, Kate Crawford, Theo Deutinger, Sietske Fransen, Scott Reinhard, Philippe Rekacewicz, Sandra Rendgen, Malkit Shoshan and Kohei Sugiura "Diagrams" is an exhibition project conceived by AMO/OMA, the studio founded by Rem Koolhaas, for the Fondazione Prada Venice venue, Ca' Corner della Regina, investigating the visual communication of data as a powerful tool for constructing meaning, comprehension or manipulation and a pervasive instrument for analyzing, understanding and transforming the surrounding world. It seeks to foster dialogue and speculative reflection on the relationship between human intelligence, scientific and cultural phenomena, and the creation and dissemination of knowledge. The exhibition, on view on the ground and first floors of the 18th-century Palazzo Ca' Corner della Regina, gathers more than 300 items, including rare documents, printed publications, digital images, and videos, spanning from the 12th century to the present day and related to various geographical and cultural contexts. This material is displayed according to a thematic principle that reflects not only contemporary world urgencies but also, de facto, demonstrates the diagram's transversal and diachronic nature. The exhibition system, designed by AMO/OMA according to the "now urgencies" principle, is structured according to nine primary topics: Built Environment, Health, Inequality, Migration, Environment, Resources, War, Truth, and Value. These themes are illustrated in the central room of the first floor in a series of vitrines arranged in parallel to one another. The project benefits from the extensive research conducted by Fondazione Prada in close collaboration with Rem Koolhaas and Giulio Margheri, Associate Architect at OMA. The expertise of Sietske Fransen, Max Planck Research Group Leader, Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History, was instrumental. As stated by Rem Koolhaas, "In my view, the diagram has been an almost permanent tool. For example, in the early stages of our research, we discovered three-dimensional diagrams from South Africa dating back to 40,000 BCE, as well as wood-carved maps of the Greenlandic coastline made on the island of Ammassalik. This demonstrates that the diagram is an enduring form of communication that adapts to whatever medium exists at the time. Regardless of the medium, a diagram serves didactic (explanatory) or suggestive (persuasive) purposes. This means that it not only exists by default in any new medium but can also be applied to virtually any area of human life. Fashion, religion, or the history of social inequality can be interpreted as a diagram. I deeply enjoy this interdisciplinary aspect of the diagram, its invariable attribute-its independence from language (words) makes it one of the most effective forms of representation." The continuous interplay between the ancient and the modern, which defines the exhibition's narrative, fosters a reflection that intertwines the form and content of diagrams. Infographic communication formally evolved in the 20th century, influenced by historical avant-gardes. Modernism's significant contributions to visual communication enable a retrospective reassessment of the formal, aesthetic, and artistic qualities of ancient and pre-modern infographics. Central to the exhibition is also AMO/OMA's design practice, which has integrated diagrammatic forms as architectural tools since the 1970s. As Koolhaas explains, "Complex ideas are almost an intellectual or sometimes artistic pleasure, and they became a driving element in what we were trying to do. In this context, diagrams were incredibly h.
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