Unraveling the Process of Building for Quantum, with Marina Otero Verzier, Manuel Correa and Aran García Lekue

In this new session of the public program Organismo Year One, Marina Otero, architect and researcher, and Manuel Correa, filmmaker and researcher, will present the research and creative process behind the film that accompanies the video installation Building for Quantum. This work will be featured in the upcoming 19th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale— “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective” —and will premiere during the event's inauguration in May this year. 

The film Building for Quantum follows the construction of the building that will host one of the few quantum computers in the world, the first in Spain. As quantum computing redefines the boundaries of knowledge, this film, still in process, examines the imaginaries and aspirations surrounding the arrival of this technology at the Quantum Basque Center in Donostia-San Sebastián. The film navigates the intersection of the physical and the philosophical within quantum architecture—juxtaposing the tangible, ordinary materials of brick and mortar with the meticulous precision required to sustain near-perfect vacuum chambers at temperatures colder than deep space. 

The event will feature Aran García-Lekue, physicist and PhD in materials science and technology who specializes in the development and application of computational tools for the simulation of quantum electronic properties at the nanoscale. With her, we will explore the principles of these theories, which have been counterintuitive for humans so far, and the horizons that may emerge from their instrumentalization. The three will engage in a conversation to unravel the potentials of this science and the paradigm shift it represents compared to classical mechanics, according to which we have traditionally organized our ways of living. 

This activity is part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology