The opening of “Dimensions of Citizenship,” shipped from the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale to Chicago, was delayed by the government shutdown in January, caused by President Trump’s insistence on funding for a border wall. Which was an unanticipated irony: it’s a show whose politics are also our national conversation.
The exhibition investigates the intersections of design and the borders that define citizenship and identity. The show acts as a response to hardening national borders and serves as a pressure release valve—charting, advocating, and accelerating different types of movement across boundaries, whether incremental or far flung, whether physical treks or inward journeys. But most all are pushing against the confines of traditional nation-states.
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