Are We Human?

Princeton University School of Architecture announces the opening of the exhibition ARE WE HUMAN? : The Design of the Species : 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. A galaxy of designers, architects, artists, theorists, filmmakers, historians, scientists, labs, centers, institutes, and NGOs respond to ARE WE HUMAN?, the polemical curatorial manifesto of Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley. In an installation designed by Andres Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation, the entire School of Architecture building will be filled with a dense collage of overlapping provocations on the question ARE WE HUMAN?

Art meets science meets reflection meets speculation in a new kind of conversation about design. The exhibition thinks about the fact that the human is unique in its capacity to design but is also continuously redesigning itself in a never ending loop that flings it into the world in unexpected ways. The human is a question mark and design is simply the way of engaging with that question.

Every participant scrutinizes the human from a different angle. Forensic Architecture considers the question of whether orangutans should be granted human rights.