MOV presents past, present, and possible future of Nunavut – The Peak

November 23rd, 2015

Architectural exhibit Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 highlights our youngest territory

Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15 is an architectural exhibit currently on display at the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) until December 13 which explores and reflects on Nunavut through the lens of architecture and the built environment.

Organized and curated by Lateral Office, a Toronto-based architecture, urbanism and landscape design studio, the exhibition was originally shown in 2014 at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia, the world’s most important and prestigious event for contemporary architecture. Arctic Adaptations also won an honourable mention from the jury, the first such honour for a Canadian project.

Taking as a starting point the curatorial call of the Biennale to examine the effects of modernity in the 20th century, the exhibition erases national characteristics in order to create a universal language of space.