The 2025 Venice Biennale dedicated to Architecture and curated by Carlo Ratti. The most obvious difference will involve the classic itinerary of the event because the Central Pavilion dei Giardini will be closed because it is affected by works renovation.
Instead of seeing this eventuality as a limitation, the Editor of the 19. International Architecture Exhibition he interpreted it as an opportunity. In fact, they will be used in addition to the headquarters ofArsenalalso spaces of Gardens and, above all, places in the city that will be interpreted with temporary interventions that will use Venice as a “living laboratory”.
The title of the Architecture Biennale 2025open from 10 May to 23 November 2025And Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. will be dedicated to the built environment and the numerous disciplines that shape it. In particular, the choice of the Latin word aims to highlight the final syllable, “gens“, which means “people, people” and wants to suggest a future ofintelligence more multiple And inclusivewhich escapes the excessive limits of today’s focus on AI
The curator’s choice already suggests the desire to bring other disciplines under the roof of architecture: Carlo Ratti it’s a architect with training from engineer and an academic and planning career that has a broad outlook, with particular attention to new technologiesas well as being one of the ten most cited scholars internationally in the field of urban planning.
Also due to this vision of his, as already seen in other previous editions, the choice to look at architecture as a collector for art, engineering, biology, data science, social Sciences And policies, planetary sciences and other disciplines that contribute to building the world we inhabit.
The challenge of this Architecture Biennial will be to face the climate change with a practical approach because, as Ratti reported, given the state of urgency, we can no longer speak of ‘transition’, a term that could have been correct until a year or two ago. And there will be no shortage of opportunities, starting with the interventions in cities that are born as temporarybut, the curator hopes, they can become permanent.
Another aspect in this sense is the idea for a space for collection of ideas: for the first time, architects and non-architects are encouraged to present ideas which will be evaluated by the curator for their possible future insertion in ShowWhy “faced with the crucial challenges of our time, every proposal, however audacious, is worthy of consideration». All the proposals they must follow the guidelines specified on the presentation interface and must be uploaded in the dedicated space on the website of the Venice Biennale by June 21, 2024.
Last but not least, the role of the Biennale according to Carlo Ratti will be to transmit to the visitors and in particular to those who have to choose their own training to look at architecture as part of solution compared toanxiety about climate change. Because the show Intelligens it will be a repertoire of new solutions, ready to be prototyped and tested – it doesn’t matter if some are destined to fail.
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