Venice Biennale: How Will We Live Together [Part 1]

The postponed 17th Venice Architecture Biennale asked its 112
participants to consider the question, “How will we live
together?”. A question originally posed in 2019 by curator and
architect, Hashim Sarkis far before our collective 2020
experience. He originally asked participants “to imagine spaces
in which we can generously live together” Answers from 46
countries materialized into the exhibition of 2021. After a year
spent living apart, the theme is both hauntingly fitting and
reifies our disconnection.


This special two-part Design and the City episode covering the
long-awaited event. It has signaled something, a community eager
to reconnect and a deeper understanding of just how interwoven we
are with our spaces spanning the full spectrum of human
existence. The exhibition explores that spectrum across five
scales: Among Diverse Beings, As New Households, As Emerging
Communities, Across Borders, and, As One Planet.


In this episode we’ll hear from the U.S. pavilion curators, Paul
Anderson and Paul Preissner; exhibitors Lukas Feireiss and
Leopold Banchini; curator from Luxembourg, Sara Noel Costa De
Araujo; and finally exhibitors for the Nordic Pavilion, Siv
Helene Stangeland, and Reinhard Kropf–all whose work shares a
common thread: wood.


These wood-based installations make cases for their egalitarian
and democratic nature. They offer a particular simplicity,
humility, flexibility, and familiarity coupled with considerate
retrospectives, to not only answer the pressing question, “How
will we live together?” but “how will we thrive together?”


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Design and the City is a reSITE production. reSITE is a global
non-profit connecting people and ideas to improve the urban
environment. This episode was directed and produced by myself,
Alexandra Siebenthal, and Radka Ondrackova with support from
Martin Barry, Anna Stava, Nikkolas Zellers, and Weronika Koleda
as well as Nano Energies and the Czech Ministry of Culture. It
was edited by LittleBig Studio.