Hybrid Radio

Hybrid Radio A Parasitic Molecular Infrastructure Curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas Swamp Pavilion (Lithuanian Pavilion) www.swamp.lt Venice Architecture Biennale, 2018

Hybrid Radio opens a dialogue around the possibilities of re-thinking radio communication as an open tool for transmitting and receiving in order to create streams for civic communication, engagement, and expression. By explores the history of radio, as well as free radio theories around the world, this piece proposes to re-appropriate the space of the airwaves that has been drastically regulated, privatized, and institutionalized. Radio acts as an invisible and mobile architecture, having the characteristic of breaking down boundaries, territories, and walls. Understanding radio as a parasitic system can provide a setting to grow in an organic and molecular way. The objective is to explore the potentials in radio infrastructure, its invisibility and the possible ways of using it to foster expression, and trigger discussions about decentralized communication networks and open streams of coexistence.