With a month to go before the international architecture crowd descends on Italy’s (sinking) Floating City, the countdown is on to the May 20th public opening of the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, and novelist Lesley Lokko, programming for this year’s central exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, is dually themed around decolonization and decarbonization and will be presented in six parts with two core presentations: the exhibition-anchoring Force Majeure at the Central Pavilion in the Venice Giardiniand Dangerous Liaisons, stagedat both the Arsenale and at Fort Maghera in the mainland borough of Mestre.
Joining these exhibitions is a sizable host of Curator’s Special Projects categorized by a quartet of themes: Food, Agriculture, & Climate Change; Gender & Geography; Mnemonic; and the largest of the four, Guests from the Future, which showcases practitioners hailing from Africa and the African diaspora whose work provides a “snapshot, a glimpse of future practices and ways of seeing and being in the world,” according to the exhibition organizers.
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