Workshops take place in the Speakers’ Corner at the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
Exhibition ticket required.
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
The Relevance of Land in an Era of Adaptation: a Conversation with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
This conversation brings together thought-leaders and practitioners to answer the question: What is the role of land in solving the economic, social, and environmental challenges of our age? Speakers explore the Exhibition themes of natural, artificial, and collective intelligence through the lenses of land and water, land and fiscal systems, and land and communities.
Speakers: John Farner (Executive Director, Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy), Solomon Greene (Executive Director, Land and Communities), Darla Munroe (Executive Director, Research and Cross-Cutting Initiatives), Marta Lora-Tamayo Vallvé (Professor of Administrative Law, UNED).
Moderated by Armando Carbonell (Former Vice President of Programs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy).
13.30-14.30
Children's Spaces of Protest, Civic Activism, and Play
A conversation on how children use street games as a tool for responding to global issues like forced migration and climate change, this session explores play as a form of civic intelligence and is anchored in a research and design project led by teenagers and an interdisciplinary team of professionals from the Architectural Thinking School for Children.
Speakers: Alexander Novikov and Elena Karpilova (Co-founders, Architectural Thinking School for Children)
3.00 pm - 4:30 pm
Restaging Criticism: Critical Futures
What does it mean to produce architecture criticism now? Has the ability to reach new audiences through digital platforms been a Faustian bargain, at the cost of stability for publications and critics alike? Esteemed critics and editors will gather to compare notes and sketch out some possible futures for critical practice at a moment of extreme flux for the field.
Speakers: Shumi Bose (Chief Editor, KoozArch), Sam Jacob (Sam Jacob Studio, London), Samuel Medina (Editor, New York Review of Architecture), Kate Wagner (McMansion Hell and Architecture Critic, The Nation).
Moderated by Christopher Hawthorne (Senior Critic, Yale School of Architecture) and Florencia Rodriguez (Director and Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago).
