ACM Group
ACM Group

The company was founded in 2003 in St. Petersburg. Originally it was a "Personal Creative Architectural Workshop", created by architects-restorers who worked in the State Hermitage. Now "ACM Group" is a company of professional restorers, operating in many cities and regions of Russia - St. Petersburg and Leningrad region, Moscow, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Norilsk, in the Republics of Crimea and Karelia, the Chechen Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia and the Republic of Sakha, as well as carrying out international restoration projects in Europe and the Republic of Uzbekistan. According to the company's projects, more than 160 monument buildings have been restored.

Carlo Ratti, curator of the XIX International Architecture Biennale, came up with an interesting theme: "Intellectuals. Natural. Artificial. Collective." Behind the play of words, where the mind is fused with genes, there is a decisive proposal: to equalize artificial intelligence and nature in human rights.

Each of the three sections of the main exposition is conceived as a fractal space - an organism that connects different projects, creating a dialog of natural (natural), artificial (technological) and collective (social, human) intelligences. Global issues such as rising temperatures and demographic shifts are touched upon here.

Ratti comes to the conclusion that space exploration is not the answer - we need to “build a world with intelligence here on Earth, listening to the intelligence of the world”.

Photo: Elephant Chapel installation project by Thai architect Boonserm Premtada.

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