La Biennale di Venezia

18^th International Architecture Exhibition

The Laboratory of the Future

Padiglione Italia – Biennale Architettura 2023

SPAZIALE: OGNUNO APPARTIENE A TUTTI GLI ALTRI

Spaziale –Everyone belongs to everyone else

Italian Pavilion 18th International Architecture Exhibition

La Biennale di Venezia

Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else Curators

Fosbury Architecture

Commissioner Onofrio Cutaia

Designers (ab)Normal, BB (Alessandro Bava and Fabrizio Ballabio), Captcha Architecture, HPO, Lemonot, Orizzontale, Parasite 2.0, Post Disaster, Studio Ossidiana, and Giuditta Vendrame

Advisors Silvia Calderoni and Ilenia Caleo, Claudia Durastanti, Roberto Flore, Elia Fornari (Brain Dead), Adelita Husni Bey, Ana Shametaj, Terrafor- ma, Emilio Vavarella, and Bruno Zamborlin

Stations

Bay of Ieranto (Massa Lubrense, Naples), Campania; Belmonte Ca- labro (Cosenza), Calabria; Librino (Catania), Sicilia; Montiferru-Sinis (Oristano), Sardinia; Prato-Pistoia, Toscana; Ripa Teatina (Chieti), Abruzzo; Taranto, Puglia; Venice mainland, Veneto; Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

20.05 – 26.11.2023

Tese delle Vergini Arsenale

Padiglione Italia – Biennale Architettura 2023

Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else”1 is the title of the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Ar- chitecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia,

promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of culture and curated by Fosbury Architecture (Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino, and Claudia Mainardi).

For the first time, a curatorial group made up of architects born between 1987 and 1989 brings with them to Venice the demands of a new generation of designers under 40 (nine groups of designers and as many advisors, professionals from different fields in the cre- ative industries, for a total of about 50 people with an average age of 33) who grew up and were trained against a backdrop of permanent crisis and who have therefore made collaboration, sharing, and dia- logue the basis of all their activities. A generation that is aware, on the one hand, of the impact and responsibility of the construction sector in the face of the environmental crisis and, on the other, of the cri- sis of significance of architecture and design in the transformation of cities and territories.

A generation of designers who, compared to their predecessors, have grown up in a regime of scarcity in terms of resources and opportunities, who sense as crucial the issue of sustainability, and who know that this is the only context in which they will be able to operate now and in the future. Fosbury Architecture is a voice for those Italian designers who are “sustainable natives” and have already accepted all these challenges, for whom transdisciplinarity is a tool for expanding the boundaries of architecture, and for whom the built artifact is a means and not an end in itself. “Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else” originated from these assumptions and is based on the vision that architecture is a research practice beyond the construction of buildings and that investigate the limits of landscape protection and its reproducibility.

Within the Italian Pavilion, therefore, it is not a finished project that will be presented, but the launch of a series of initiatives that will have a long-term impact. From an exhibitionary point of view, the Pavilion will present the for- mal and theoretical synthesis of the processes initiated in the nine regions in the months preceding the opening, from January to May, providing a diverse and original portrait of Italian architecture in the international context. The extension of the Pavilion outside the Arsenale will correspond to a reduction in the exhibition installation to make room for the repre- sentation of the activated processes throughout the Italian peninsula. Local projects will not stop with the opening of the Italian Pavilion but will continue with a dense series of activities in the different regions throughout the duration of the exhibition and beyond. The unfolding of all activities in the various regions can be followed on the online and social media platforms that were activated beginning in January 2023.

design is always the result of collective and collaborative work that goes beyond the idea of the architect-author. According to this vision, space is understood as a physical and symbolic place, a geographical area and abstract dimension, a system of known references and a ter- ritory of possibilities. Spaziale thus refers to an expanded notion of the field of archi- tecture: to intervene in space is to operate on the fabric of rela- tionships between people and places that forms the basis of every project.

1B_Post Disaster Rooftops EP04_Taranto_Ph.Sara Scanderebech

“Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else”1 is the title of the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Ar- chitecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of culture and curated by Fosbury Architecture (Giacomo Ardesio, Alessandro Bonizzoni, Nicola Campri, Veronica Caprino, and Claudia Mainardi). For the first time, a curatorial group made up of architects born between 1987 and 1989 brings with them to Venice the demands of a new generation of designers under 40 (nine groups of designers and as many advisors, professionals from different fields in the cre- ative industries, for a total of about 50 people with an average age of 33) who grew up and were trained against a backdrop of permanent crisis and who have therefore made collaboration, sharing, and dia- logue the basis of all their activities. A generation that is aware, on the one hand, of the impact and responsibility of the construction sector in the face of the environmental crisis and, on the other, of the cri- sis of significance of architecture and design in the transformation of cities and territories. A generation of designers who, compared to their predecessors, have grown up in a regime of scarcity in terms of resources and opportunities, who sense as crucial the issue of sustainability, and who know that this is the only context in which they will be able to operate now and in the future. Fosbury Architecture is a voice for those Italian designers who are “sustainable natives” and have already accepted all these challenges, for whom transdisciplinarity is a tool for expanding the boundaries of architecture, and for whom the built artifact is a means and not an end in itself. “Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else” originated from these assumptions and is based on the vision that architecture is a research practice beyond the construction of buildings and that 1 The phrase “everyone belongs to everyone else” chosen by Fosbury Architecture—a quotation from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World—makes explicit reference to the inevitable interconnection between people and their destinies, between all the actors involved in a large and ambitious project such as the Italian Pavilion, and, ultimately, between us all.