‘an update on cranes’ was framed as an inquiry on playfulness and uselessness resembling utility, pointing at the threshold of speculative space, incomplete structures as critiques of utility and the feeling of comfort.

Why do circuits and complex fictional structures - like sculptures - have become a point of interest when there is a growing sense that the notion of utility must be reinvented from an ecological perspective? Do these systematic structures resemble domestic space in any way? Is a critique of functionality always informed by a notion of comfort? Isn’t functionality itself determined by this notion?

Focusing on the relation between architecture and intimate space, the show aimed to serve as a platform for presenting a multitude of perspectives that explore and expand these and further questions.