In a context characterised by ever wider political divergences and ever greater economic inequalities, we ask architects to imagine spaces in which we can live generously together: together as human beings who, despite growing individuality, wish to connect with each other and with others, especially in the digital and real world; together as new families in search of more diversified and dignified living spaces.
This is what Hashim Sarkis asks, as curator of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition. He says that we need a new space contract. Space, meant as the places where we live and work, not the infinite starry mantle above our heads.
But wandering around the Biennale in Venice, this is not what I saw and felt. What I saw and felt was the Space meant as the unknown place above us, the only sea we have not entirely charted yet, and I’ve kept imagining how we could look like in a galaxy, far far away.
