Trip to Venice Biennale

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Trip to Venice Biennale
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Together we plan 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 for the first time is 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 histories 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?

More information about the Biennale: https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/18th-exhibition

For 25 people, arrival and departure by bus and accommodation in a hostel have already been organized. The cost is about 200 euros for the round trip and 3 nights. Places will be given to participants of the studio project Kassel Contested - War, Planning, Love; if there is further interest, there is the possibility to come to Venice self-organized in consultation with us and to participate in the joint visits and discussions within the exhibition. Please come to our first meeting, which will be announced soon.

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