As the world faces an increasingly urgent climate crisis, there is growing pressure for the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions, prompting a wholesale rethink of the way buildings are developed. With a longstanding emphasis on sustainability, MVRDV are strongly aligned with the principles of this change. But what does that mean in practice? In Carbon Confessions, MVRDV tells their story from the heart of what Germans call the Bauwende, or construction revolution. The exhibition shows the ideas, ideals, everyday actions – and yes, the missteps and missed opportunities – of their quest for carbon reductions.
The exhibition provides a storyline of MVRDV’s journey in sustainability, including the office’s early evangelism for density and mobility, its efforts to implement sustainability in its own operations with vegetarian lunches and the creation of The Green Dream Foundation to offset its travel emissions, its missteps in relying too heavily on sustainability consultants, and the foundation of MVRDV NEXT, a combined climate and technology unit within the office that helps to drive the firm’s current focus on carbon.
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