Archi/Textūra: non-visual architecture pavilion

The 2nd stage of the exhibition will start on July 14 at studioDOT714 (Europos pr. 72, 3rd floor). The exhibition in the studio will be open until August 15. Information about opening hours and excursions listed below.

EXHIBITION IN THE STUDIO IS OPEN on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 3:00 p.m. until 20:00

For excursions for groups or additional visiting hours, write to [email protected].

OPENING DAY PROGRAM (July 14th.):

14:00 - opening of the industrial creative space studioDOT714 by architect-photographer Ligita Lileikė

14:30 - visiting the pavilion, excursions with the creators

19:00 - jazz trio concert: Vykintas Jasaitis (electric guitar), Deividas Skridaila (bass guitar), Arnas Mikalkėnas (percussion). The program includes original compositions and improvisations.

studioDOT714 is an experimental industrial creative space founded by the architect-photographer Ligita Lileike, which officially opens its doors for the first time on July 14 together with the exhibition of the experimental architecture platform ArchiTextura LAB. The studio is dedicated to architecture, art, cinema, photography and books.

The interactive exhibition “Archi/Textūra” will present three years of research on the topic of non-visual experiential architecture by architect Rasa Chmieliauskaitė and art theorist dr. Justinas Kalinauskas. These researches, carried out together with the Lithuanian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired community, sought a new grammar of the organization of architectural space, aimed at invisible dialogue with the environment around us and revealed through tactile, auditory and orientational relations with the architectural phenomenon.

The interactive pavilion presented in the exhibition will reveal a new and unusual practice of cognition of architectural space, which will allow visitors to nonvisually experience undiscovered or underestimated qualities of the organized environment. In this way, the organizers of the exhibition invite you to discover additional depth in the environment around us and learn to read space with the various sensory instruments available to people.

The idea of ​​the exhibition: Rasa Chmieliauskaitė

Architecture: Rasa Chmieliauskaitė, Justinas Kalinauskas

Textile construction: Gabrielė Julija Kupčinskaitė

Soundscape: Arnas Mikalkėnas

Research methodology: Justinas Kalinauskas

Consultants and testers: Irma Jokštytė, Ramutis Janšauskas, Paulius Lėveris, Vytautas Lėveris and other members of the LASS community

The project is presented by: Kaunas - European Capital of Culture 2022

Project partners: Kaunas Artists' House, Lithuanian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Kaunas Branch of the Lithuanian Union of Architects, studioDOT714