The 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, After Belonging, opens on September 8 with a strong Columbia GSAPP presence. Many faculty and alumni contributed to this extensive project in a range of capacities ranging from curators to exhibitors and speakers.  

The Triennale’s five-person curatorial team, After Belonging Agency, is comprised faculty member Ignacio G. Galán and four GSAPP alumni Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis and Marina Otero Verzier. 

The Triennale launches with a full-day conference on September 9 exploring questions of architecture’s role in reconfiguring belonging, how the process has transformed notions of residence, and what the spatial, technical, and sociopolitical consequences of this transformation are. The event features Columbia GSAPP Dean Amale Andraos alongside faculty members Gro Bonesmo, Juan Herreros, and Reinhold Martin.

On Residence and In Residence are the two main exhibitions, held at Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture (DOGA) and the National Museum of Architecture, respectively. They include installations and interventions by many additional Columbia GSAPP faculty and alumni, some working among larger groups of collaborators:

• Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation;
  
• Kadambari Baxi, Janette Kim, Meg McLagan, David Schiminovich & Mark Wasiuta;
  
• Laura Kurgan, Juan Saldarriaga & Angelika Rettberg;
  
• L.E.FT & Lawrence Abu Hamdan;
  
• Nora Akawi, Nina V. Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl & Eduardo Rega; and
  
• Caitlin Blanchfield, Glen Cummings, Jaffer Kolb, Farzin Lofti-Jam & Leah Meisterlin.