17/11/2021 - A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
OUR PROJECT FOR VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2021, PUBLISHED ON “AND”
Here we are almost at the end of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition. Entitled How will we live together?, it was curated by Hashim Sarkis and it began on 22 May.
The Italian Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale was curated by Alessandro Melis, following the theme “Resilient Communities and Regeneration of Urban Suburbs”. Focused on the issue of climate change, the exhibition intended to explore the capabilities for transformation and adaptation of Italian communities in an attempt to define tangible solutions to current global challenges.
We are honoured to have been involved in this ambitious project: in fact, we were asked to tell the story of resilience with sixteen different videos, one for each municipality, province or region involved. The first question to answer was: what is resilience? For us, resilience is a journey through time. Past, present and future. In a country like Italy, which has its strength in history, it must bet on the present to look beyond, to a future worthy of its beauty, with the ambition to become a better place. Resistance, resilience. Telling all this through images and words, through a journey from time to time through the countryside, the valleys, the mountains, the suburbs, the roads, the buildings, the land, the factories, the rivers, through the centuries-old history of the cobblestones of the centres to the future redevelopment projects. A journey that would be both physical and historical, a journey through history, while moving through geography, between one region and another and from the outside to individual cities. A journey through images, talking about sustainability, heat, green, water, memory, regeneration, heritage, ecosystem, resources, culture, climate, transition, recovery.
(From “A journey through time” by Gianni Vesentini on AND, Scientific journal of architecture and design).