Together we want to visit "The Laboratory of the Future", this year's Venice Biennale. Curated by Lesley Lokko, founder of the African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana), the focus is for the first time on Africa and the African diaspora ("that fluid and enmeshed culture of people of African descent that now straddles the globe", Lesley Lokko) and their stories, too often marginalized in the canon of architectural history. For Lokko, questions about resources and the representational (effort) of a biennial are also central, and we also want to place our joint visit under the motto exploitations - what are the consequences of the biennial for the city of Venice?