2023 Venice Architecture Biennale Opens International Call for the First-Ever Biennale College Architettura

In line with the general goals of all Biennale Colleges (cinema, dance, music, theatre, art), this first Biennale College Architettura will seek to complement and enrich the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale by exploring how to place the Exhibition’s central themes, decolonization, and decarbonization, at the heart of architectural education.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Age Restriction, Single-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Architecture
Country Venice, Italy
RegDeadline 17 February 2023 GoogleCal iCal
17 February 2023 (via Online)
Eligibility Graduate students, graduates under the age of 30, to early career academics (PhD candidates, researchers, assistant professors, tutors, teaching fellows, etc.), and emerging practitioners under the age of 35

Description
This educational experience will be thematically and physically situated amongst the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. Those participating in the College will enjoy direct access to the exhibited work of the participants of the Biennale Architettura 2023. The Biennale College Architettura 2023 will operate through a series of experimental studios, seminars, lectures, and public reviews, drawing on the rich history of radical and transformative pedagogies that have surfaced in architectural education over the past fifty years. The College will thus provide an explorative space for graduate students, early career practitioners, and emerging teachers and academics, to critically and creatively engage with each other, with experts, and with the two most pressing concerns of our time: decolonization and decarbonization.

Jury
Architecture Department of La Biennale di Venezia, Lesley Lokko

Prize
Up to 50 eligible participants will be selected, they will work alongside a global cast of renowned practitioners, academics, and built environment professionals on a range of design projects at different scales that map out new possibilities for architectural education in the coming decades.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
End March 2023: Notification of the results
25 June - 22 July 2023: Biennale College Architettura

Organizer
Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia

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