Workshops take place in the Speakers’ Corner at the Corderie dell’Arsenale.
Exhibition ticket required.
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Manifesto for the Rights of the Venice Lagoon
The Venice Lagoon represents a unique co-creation between human and non-human intelligens — an evolving, hybrid ecosystem shaped by millennia of interactions, adaptations, and tensions. This two-hour workshop opens up a conversation with architects, activists, policymakers, and the Biennale public, in which we explore how spatial disciplines can respond to more-than-human realities. If nature can hold rights, architects and urbanists cannot remain silent. Their voices — and their actions — are central to how we shape just, livable futures for both humans and non-humans.
Speakers: Venice Lagoon (Nature), Mitchell Joachim (Terreform ONE), Amalia Rossi (IDRA and Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti), Ren Yee (UNStudio), Francesca Tarocco (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, NICHE), Adelita Husni-Bey (TBA21), Elena Longhin (TU Delft, Urban Design), Alex Putzer (IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law), Katja Schechtner (MIT, Senseable City Lab & LCAU).
