This autumn, the Rotterdam International Architecture Biennale will take place once again. For this tenth edition, an interdisciplinary team of curators has been assembled, each of whom approaches the spatial challenges of today and tomorrow from a different perspective: Derk Loorbach (director of Drift and professor of socio-economic transitions at Erasmus University Rotterdam) for his vision on ecology and socio-economics; Peter Veenstra (Lola Landscape Architects) for his expertise in the field of food and energy landscapes, and architects Véronique Patteeuw (Associate Professor at ENSAP Lille) and Léa-Catherine Szacka (Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester) for their knowledge and perspective drawn from architectural history.

The curators took their cue from the Club of Rome Report, published in 1972 by an informal, international group of academics, scientists, politicians, diplomats and industrialists. Even then, they were deeply concerned about human society on Earth and, in *The Limits to Growth*, outlined the dangerous consequences of exponential population growth, agricultural production, the depletion of non-renewable resources, industrial production and pollution. The report caused a global stir and had a major impact on global environmental awareness.