Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
Creative Australia has supported the Australian Institute of Architects presentation at the Venice Architecture Biennale since 2006.
Home
A home is a site of belonging, memory and relationships – a place that recalls and connects all who have belonged there. A set of behaviours can also be attributed to the notion of home – demonstrating respect to a place, creating communities, facilitating connection, familiarity and safety. Our home is Country – encompassing landscapes, waterscapes, skyscapes, communities of human and non-human kin, as well as lores, languages, memory and ancestral beliefs. Country is a living being that we care for with responsibility and obligation.
Home positions Indigenous knowledges as a critical design methodology, where the process of connecting with Country, through conversation and two-way knowledge sharing, is of equal importance to the tangible outcome. Home aspires to encourage future generations of architects to embrace a culturally and environmentally sustainable approach to the built environment. The Creative Sphere has collaborated with ten universities across Australia, engaging over one hundred architecture and design students to reflect on what home means to them and to contribute a ‘Living Belonging’ to the exhibition. Home invites audiences to become active collaborators, as opposed to passive onlookers. To move through the pavilion with gentle and curious hands, holding and considering each Living Belonging, participating in conversation, leaving a footprint in sand, or a trace in ochre and clay. Home will become a living archive of all visitors.
Creative Australia’s role
Creative Australia takes on this new producing role at the Venice Architecture Biennale to expand its advocacy and development role in supporting Australian creativity. We will deliver the production of each biennale of Architecture alongside our important commissioning and producing role of the Venice Biennale.
Since 1988 Creative Australia (formerly the Australia Council for the Arts) has owned, managed and maintained the Australia Pavilion in Venice for the purpose of exhibiting works by Australian artists at the International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, usually held every two years.
2025 Venice Architecture Biennale’s main exhibition
The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale’s main exhibition, Intelligens Natural. Artificial. Collective., will be curated by architect and engineer, Carlo Ratti. He is the director of the Senseable City Lab and a founding partner of the architecture and innovation office CRA – Carlo Ratti Associati (Torino, New York City, and London).
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