The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, known as IABR – 2018 2020 – The Missing Link, is entirely dedicated to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement. This year, the IABR is spread over two editions, and the long-standing collaboration with Architecture Workroom Brussels has evolved into a structural partnership, featuring an extensive Brussels component.

‘The Missing Link’ focuses on transforming good intentions and experiments into concrete actions that help achieve the major climate targets within the set timeframe. “We know it has to be done, and we also know enough about what needs to change. The key question is: how?”, summarises Joachim Declerck. Relying solely on expensive technical breakthroughs is not enough, as these do not tackle the root of the problem and result in a system that lacks solidarity.