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2023 - ongoing
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2023 - ongoing
Description
work-in-progress (WIP)
Exhibition
Climate Wunderkammer
Collateral Event of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition
La Biennale Architettura 2023
May 21 - November 26, 2023
Palazzo Badoer, IUAV University (Venice, Italy)
Climate Wunderkammer
The exhibition aims to immerse ourselves in a multi-sensory experience of climate change impact while sharing practical solutions to address and adapt to it. It consists of a hybrid (physical and virtual), interactive and co-created installation.
This installation exhibits a collection of narratives from our planet through drawings, videos, and voice recordings, a Wunderkammer of messages in bottles to open and discover. In each story depicting the threat and impact of climate change, we present tentative answers to adapt or address the new condition to inspire places undergoing similar climate trends in the future.
We believe that the climate has no borders and that no one can solve this global issue alone on a local scale. This archive of narratives will generate the seed for setting up a global platform for sharing knowledge and mutual learning, especially learning from the most fragile places undergoing the impact of climate change.
Source: Climate Wunderkammer – collective archive
18th International Architecture Exhibition
Biennale Architettura 2023
The Laboratory of the Future
What does it mean to be ‘an agent of change’? (…) Over the past nine months, in hundreds of conversations, text messages, Zoom calls and meetings - stated Lesley Lokko - the question of whether exhibitions of this scale — both in terms of carbon and cost — are justified, has surfaced time and again. In May last year, I referred to the exhibition several times as ‘a story’, a narrative unfolding in space. Today, my understanding has changed. An architecture exhibition is both a moment and a process. It borrows its structure and format from art exhibitions, but it differs from art in critical ways which often go unnoticed. Aside from the desire to tell a story, questions of production, resources and representation are central to the way an architecture exhibition comes into the world, yet are rarely acknowledged or discussed. From the outset, it was clear that the essential gesture of The Laboratory of the Future would be ‘change’.
Central to all the projects is the primacy and potency of one tool: the imagination - Lokko said.
Source: La Biennale di Venezia
Last update:
September 27, 2025