Philippines: ‘Futures of a Past’

Can architecture be a vessel to transcend the global colonial presumptions of our nation?”

A heavyweight team of selected architecture, multimedia arts, consular and diplomatic affairs, and arts management students from the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), mentored by its roster of sterling faculty, including Environmental Studies Associate Dean Architect Cynthia Funk, Arts Management Program Chairperson Din Din Araneta, Architect Harry Serrano, and Architect Walther Ocampo, posited this question as they presented “Futures of a Past,” a three-dimensional glimpse into alternate Philippine timelines during the prestigious 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in Italy.