Vernissage / Opening: 30.01.2020 - 19:30
Expo: 31.01.2020 - 13.03.2020
AIT-ArchitekturSalon Hamburg, Bei den Mühren 70, 20457 Hamburg
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After the initial installation in Basel in May 2019 and a first travel to Munich in winter, the exhibition ‘Swim City’ will now be on show in Hamburg!
Paul Steinbrück of POOL IS COOL is invited to give a lecture on the (hi)story of POOL IS COOL, its ambitions and strategies, and its impact on the urban planning in Brussels.
If you’re around, see you at the AIT-ArchitekturSalon on Thursday, 30.01.2020, at 19:30.
‘Swim City’ is the first exhibition to draw attention to a particular contemporary phenomenon in urban space: river swimming as a mass movement. Swiss cities have played a pioneering role in the development of this activity in the last few decades, gradually making the river accessible as a natural public space in the built environment. This has allowed for the river to become a place of leisure located right in front of one's doorstep. The rest of the world looks on in awe at this bathing culture. Here, cities abroad see an example of how they can reclaim their river areas as a spatial resource, so as to sustainably improve the quality of urban life. The exhibition shows the unique characteristics and historic development of river swimming in Basel, Bern, Zurich and Geneva. An immersive film installation allows visitors to experience these four cities from the perspective of a swimmer in the river. In addition, the exhibition presents contemporary river-swimming projects from around the world: Flussbad Berlin, POOL IS COOL (Brüssel), Thames Baths (London), Ilot Vert (Paris), Charles River Swimming Initiative (Boston) and +POOL (New York).
The exhibition is curated by:
Barbara Buser, Andreas Ruby, Yuma Shinohara
Film installation: Jürg Egli
The opening
This was the opening of SWIM CITY in Hamburg on Thursday 30.01.2020. A simple but atmospheric scenography, last minute adaptations by the curator of the exhibition Andreas Ruby himself, so many interested people for our lecture and really enthusiastic talks about swimming, Hamburg, students, parks, the river and Venice afterwards.
Thanks you for the invitation, Ait ArchitekturSalon Hamburg and Schweizer Architekturmuseum Basel. And Thames Baths, Ilot Vert, +POOL, Flussbad Berlin and Charles River Conservancy, rest assured, you’re well presented!