How will we live together? That’s the question on the minds of Paolo Baratta, president of La Biennale di Venezia, and Hashim Sarkis, curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, as they unveil a guiding vision for the 2020 Venice Biennale.
Baratta and Sarkis announced the theme in Venice this morning, issuing an appeal for a “new spatial contract” guided by architects that can “imagine spaces in which we can generously live together.” According to the pair, architects can and should be responsible for articulating bold new visions for the changing state of human occupation of the world that draw together different professions and groups of people toward diverse and just ends.
Architects should bring people “together as human beings who, despite our increasing individuality, yearn to connect with one another and with other species across digital and real space; together as new households looking for more diverse and dignified spaces for inhabitation; together as emerging communities that demand equity, inclusion and spatial identity; together across political borders to imagine new geographies of association; and together as a planet facing crises that require global action for us to continue living at all,” according to the pair.
With the 2020 run of the prestigious biennale, Baratta and Sarkis hope to collectively articulate a vision that “asserts the overlooked role of the architect as both cordial convener and custodian of the spatial contract” while also maintaining the “material, spatial, and cultural specificity” that lends architecture its most visceral qualities.
Highlighting the growing number of “Vision 2020” plans around the world, the two add, [2020] “is upon us. We look to the collective architectural imagination to meet this momentous occasion with creativity and courage.”
The Biennale Architettura 2020 will run from May 23rd to November 29th 2020.
For Archinect's coverage of the Biennale Architettura 2018, see below:
Ole Bouman reviews Biennales, in general, via the Venice Biennale
Curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara discuss the 2018 Venice Biennale's theme, Freespace
Croatia designs immersive, robot-built “Cloud Pergola” Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Biennale
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