The 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Carlo Ratti, focuses on 'Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.' This edition emphasizes plural intelligences, integrating natural ecosystems and technologies while promoting collective community efforts in architectural practices. Ratti advocates for distributed authorship over the traditional architect genius model, inviting over 750 participants and diverse voices to contribute. The Biennale seeks to advance resilience through collaboration and adaptation to changing climates and social structures, marking a significant shift from past focuses on sustainability. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will honor Donna Haraway for her insights into kinship and ecology.
To face a world on fire, architecture must be able to harness all the intelligence around us. This urgent provocation by curator Carlo Ratti frames the expansive inquiry of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ratti envisions architecture at the epicenter of our response to ecological crises, drawing on everything from biology to data science in search of 'intelligent solutions'.
This year's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to scholar Donna Haraway, whose thinking on kinship, ecology and collective survival echoes through many of the Biennale's projects.
Where past Biennales often emphasized sustainability or mitigation, Ratti's exhibition embraces a more dynamic paradigm, suggesting that resilience today demands collaboration across generations and fields.
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