The Beyond Zero exhibition addresses the most urgent and significant topic for architecture today: environmental degradation. Architecture, along with other creative fields, holds immense power to drive the systemic transformation necessitated by this crisis. It can inspire, provoke, question and make tangible the radical changes at hand.
This publication summarizes the Beyond Zero exhibition, originally designed to conclude the “Nordic Carbon Neutral Bauhaus” one and a half years project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and coordinated by the Ministry of the Environment Finland. The exhibition debuted at the Form/Design Center in Malmö from November 2024 to January 2025 and is designed as a traveling exhibition. Together with the 17 projects originally presented in the exhibition this publication forms a snapshot of Nordic architecture on the road towards renewed practices.
We hope to challenge and inspire the reader to rethink what architecture is – and what it must become – in the pursuit of a truly sustainable future.
Iines Karkulahti, Anssi Lauttia, Charlotte Nyholm, Meri Wiikinkoski
Curators