The exhibition "Between Rock and Decay" by design studio kuidas.works* looked at the lifecycle of the built environment and asked if instability could also be considered as a quality in its own right by today's building industry.

The focus of the exhibition is a common phenomenon in today's architecture and construction culture, which tends to divide technologies and materials on a polar scale – stable or unstable. Reinforced concrete and laminated surfaces are valued for their durability and resistance to wearing. On the other end of the spectrum are earth and clay-based solutions that tend to be pushed aside and overlooked as they are thought to be uncertain, unsure, and unstable. With the exhibition, the design studio kuidas.works asked whether there might be room in this framework for a semi-permanent solution or a solution that only wears out under certain conditions – and could wear and tear also be quality?

Perhaps nowadays, the problem is that our solutions are too stable. We have put so much emphasis on the lifetime of the built environment that we have overlooked its ending. So, longing for the ultimate durability and permanent solutions, we are constantly overlooking the fact that the construction industry produces more than a third of the world's greenhouse gases. At the same time, there is no operational plan for recycling and reusing. With the exhibition, the studio aimed to bring ecological building materials and techniques back into the picture – to find solutions and to consider the whole lifecycle of the design or building, not just the beginning of the lifetime. The spatial experience of the exhibition can be recreated on request with suitable context and conditions provided to spread the message of the work.