Beyond Eternity – Architecture Facing the Impermanence

Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Participants: Tosin Oshinowo: Curator of the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2023), The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability, Arian Lehner: Film Director of Beyond Eternity –Architecture Facing the Impermanence, and Baerbel Mueller: Dean I oA and Head of [Applied] Foreign Affairs.

BEYOND ETERNITY – Architecture Facing the Impermanence explores architecture’s response to climate change, resource scarcity, circular strategies, real estate speculation, and the refugee crisis.

This architectural documentary is framed within the context of the second Sharjah Architecture Triennial (2023), directed by Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo. It features interviews with Oshinowo and follows international architects and artists from Denmark, India, Nigeria, Lebanon, Ghana, and Palestine as they elaborate on their projects:

Henry Glogau & Aleksander Kongshaug (Copenhagen, Denmark): Resource Autonomy
Vinu Daniel from Wallmakers (Kerala, India): 3‑Minute Corridor
Bubu Ogisi (Lagos, Nigeria): Óré ì Sé Àgbòn
Adrian Pepe (Beirut, Lebanon): Utility of Being
Emil Grip from Limbo Accra (Accra, Ghana): Super Limbo
DAAR: Sandi Hilal/​Alessandro Petti (Bethlehem, Palestine): Concrete Tent

Presented by Movies in Wonderland and Mies​.TV, this film offers a critical reflection on the global effects of modernity in architecture and its entanglements with pressing ecological, social, and economic challenges.

Beyond Eternity – Architecture Facing the Impermanence
Directed by Arian Lehner