"The exhibition brings together projects from diverse actors in Italian society through an open call, whose objective was to rethink the boundary between land and water as an integrated system of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape. In response to the Biennale's central theme, the exhibition aims to stimulate the awakening of a collective intelligence capable of triggering a renewal in that relationship, starting from the Italian coast and expanding globally."
"The exhibition begins with the premise that the centrality of the relationship between four binomials: water and land, the natural and the artificial, infrastructure and landscape, city and coast, affects the identity of the country and the balances established within it between environment, humanity, culture, and economy. The curatorial stance is that this balance must be protected and redesigned to achieve an "essential adaptation to a future marked by new and pressing needs.""
The Italian Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition occupies the Tese delle Vergini of the Arsenale and is promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The exhibition, titled "Terrae Aquae. Italy and the Intelligence of the Sea," presents architectural, scientific, and cultural reflections on the Mediterranean Sea and neighboring oceans. Projects were selected through an open call to rethink the boundary between land and water as an integrated system of architecture, infrastructure, and landscape. The exhibition seeks to awaken collective intelligence to renew the land–sea relationship, foregrounding four key binomials and calling for protection and redesign to enable essential adaptation. Coastal areas are emphasized as often neglected yet crucial meeting places for ecosystems, cultures, activities, and religions, symbolized by the Venetian marriage of the sea ritual.
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