Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera premiere film exploring the visual landscape of Covid-19

Our VDF collaboration with The World Around concludes with the premiere of a new film by Andrés Jaque and Ivan Munuera, which charts the global impact of coronavirus on spaces across a wide range of different scales.

Called The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19, the 13-minute film explores the coronavirus pandemic through a montage of images of spaces of different scales – from microscopic images of the virus, to maps showing its global spread.

It documents dramatic transformations of the built environment, including conference centres being converted into hospitals and empty city streets being reclaimed by wildlife, and explores how the pandemic is affecting different people in different situations around the world.

"The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19 tracks how coronavirus, its contagion, and its responses are enacted through space," said the filmmakers.

"[The film] interrogates territorial divides, the condition of migration and the making of refugeeness, old and new geometries of colonialism, tax justice, access to healthcare, racism and xenophobia, warfare rhetoric, surveillance, urban infrastructures, public spaces, and borders. But also; entanglement, cooperation, inventiveness, engagement, and emerging forms of togetherness."

The World Around invited New York-based architect Jaque and curator Munuera to create the film as part of its Earth Day symposium, which we have been broadcasting all day as part of Virtual Design Festival.

Credits:

The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19
Duration 12:57

Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera
With the Office for Political Innovation

Research and Production Team
Rajvi Anandpara
Shubhankar Bhajekar
Drishti Gandhi
Roberto González García
Maria Karagianni
Meerati Rana
Saumil Sanghavi
Mishti Shah

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