Upper secondary schools

Reservations

GUIDED TOURS
from 30 September to 23 November 2025
Venues: Giardini della Biennale and/or Arsenale

The guided tours include an introduction to the 19th International Architecture Exhibition, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective, a visit to the Installations of the main Exhibition combined with a selection of National Participations in the Giardini and/or a tour of the Corderie and Artiglierie of the Arsenale that includes a short introduction to the National Participations. Reservations may be made with the request for a customised experience to include lectures or focused thematic explorations. The activity will last a total of approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes.

From 11 to 25 October, during the Music Festival, the reservation for a guided tour may be combined with attendance at one of the concerts in the programme, selecting the option Guided tour + Music concert
A Lecture may also be added by selecting the option Lecture.

(available in Italian and in English; languages upon request: French, German, Spanish, Albanian, Greek)

HISTORICAL TOURS
from 30 September to 23 November
Venues: Giardini della Biennale and/or Arsenale

The historical tours concentrate on La Biennale di Venezia’s exhibition venues from a historical and architectural point of view. The Giardini della Biennale are explored as an open-air museum of contemporary architecture, featuring masterpieces of exhibition architecture by the masters of Modernism and Post-modernism. The tour of the Arsenale reconstructs its importance to the Most Serene Republic and its internal organisation highlighting its most significant buildings, some of which are extraordinary examples of industrial architecture.

(available in Italian and in English; languages upon request: French, German, Spanish, Albanian, Greek)

TOURS WITH EDUCATIONAL WORKSHEETS
from 30 September to 23 November
Tours with educational worksheets
Venues: Giardini della Biennale and/or Arsenale

The tour of the Exhibition is conducted with the support of educational worksheets. The students are first introduced to the main themes; they are then divided into groups and invited to analyse a specific project independently, supported and guided by in-depth educational worksheets structured to facilitate a more active engagement with the projects in the Exhibition. The workshop ends with a final session in which each group illustrates the project they explored to their coursemates for a moment of shared discussion and reflection.

(available in Italian only)

IMMERSIVE INTELLIGENS // INTELLIGENT TOURS
Series of tours and workshops scheduled in the context of “Intelligent Venice The Oldest City of the Future” Special Project of the Fondazione Venezia World Capital of Sustainability / Venice Sustainability Foundation (VSF) for Biennale Architettura 2025.

From 30 September to 23 November
Intelligens // Intelligent

A thematic programme that combines a visit to the 19^th International Architecture Exhibition, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective, with the presentation of one of the main installations of “Intelligent Venice – The Oldest City of the Future”, a tribute to the ingenuity and capacity for innovation of the city of Venice. An immersive journey through the urban transformations on display at the Exhibition which leads into the history of the city on the lagoon, the only city of its kind in the world, memory of the past yet projected into the future through innovation.

From 21 - 31 October, visitors can register for the workshop Venice, Intelligent Knowledge for a Sustainable Future, by entering the request in the notes field.
Venue: Arsenale

The workshop explores how the integration between natural and artificial intelligence can guide humanity toward a sustainable future, starting with an immersive installation about environmental impact. Through hands-on experiences and historical considerations about Venice’s resilience, the participants are invited to rediscover the connection between knowledge, daily actions and the health of the environment.
In collaboration with CNR – ISMAR

(available in Italian – language upon request: English)

ARCHITECTURE AND MUSIC
From 13 - 24 October
Multidisciplinary workshops _ Music
Venue: Arsenale

The educational project offers the possibility of registering for a multidisciplinary workshop that brings together the language of Architecture with the language of Music. Following an hour-long visit to Biennale Architettura, the young students will enjoy the experience of a workshop about Music, under the guidance of musicians.

(available in Italian and in English)

ARCHITECTURE AND DANCE
from 4 - 15 November
Multidisciplinary workshops _ Dance
Venue: Arsenale

The educational project offers the possibility of registering for a multidisciplinary workshop that brings together the language of Architecture with the language of Dance. Following an hour-long visit to Biennale Architettura, the young students will enjoy the experience of a workshop about Dance, under the guidance of dancers.

(available in Italian and in English)

ARCHITECTURE AND THEATRE
from 17 - 21 November
Multidisciplinary workshops _ Theatre
Venue: Arsenale

The educational project offers the possibility of registering for a multidisciplinary workshop that brings together the language of Architecture with the language of Theatre. Following an hour-long visit to Biennale Architettura, the young students will enjoy the experience of a workshop about Theatre, under the guidance of dancers and actors.

(available in Italian and in English)

Guided tours of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition viewed from perspectives of particular educational significance.

They include an introduction to the International Exhibition, a discussion of the most significants projects relevant to the selected theme and a conversation at the end to discuss the insights acquired during the tour. They are particularly recommended for lower and upper secondary schools.

To register for the thematic tours specify the title in the notes field

Venue: Arsenale

1. The intelligence of life

A thematic tour that asks what contemporary humanity can learn from the forms of adaptation and coexistence developed by non-human life forms such as trees, plants, microbes and animals. A reflection upon the silent intelligence of life and how different it is from the discoursive intelligence of humans.

2. The architecture of machines

A thematic tour that explores the frontiers of artificial intelligence and its importance in redefining concepts such as personhood, home, space, city and nature. The tour focuses in particular on the technical dimension of artificial intelligence, as a means to obtain specific ends, and its social and political dimension as the element within which to rethink what it means to be human and what defines humanity.

3. The knowledge of peoples

A thematic tour dedicated to the importance to architecture and dwelling of traditions, practices, customs and all forms of behaviour that have been handed down informally, by imitation or by direct example. A reflection on the role that inherited solutions can still play in an era of rapid and radical change.

4. Intelligens// Intelligent

A thematic tour that combines a visit to the 19^th International Architecture Exhibition, Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective with the presentation of one of the major installations of “Intelligent Venice – The Oldest City of the Future”, a tribute to the ingenuity and capacity for innovation of the city of Venice. An immersive journey through the urban transformations on display at the Exhibition which leads into the history of the city on the lagoon, the only city of its kind in the world, memory of the past yet projected into the future through innovation.

Venue. Giardini

5. A Garden of Time

A thematic tour dedicated to the Giardini della Biennale as a place that reflects and mirrors the history of the past two centuries, since the fall of the Most Serene Republic of Venice to the economic and cultural rise of the Persian Gulf. The national pavilions become the opportunity to review certain critical episodes and moments that have served to define our present time.

(available in Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Albanian, Greek)