Spaziale

The volume Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else brings together the voices of all the protagonists involved in the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, and was made possible thanks to the support of the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of culture. Nine practices led by young designers – in collaboration with advisors from other fields of the creative industries – were invited to develop pioneer projects in as many locations throughout Italy. The outcomes, presented simultaneously in Venice and disseminated across the country, address an agenda of pressing issues for architecture: open questions on the contemporary scene, ascribable to the scenario of the – not only ecological – transition of our time. The volume also features interviews between the working groups and the curators which explore the various design approaches; photographic essays lead us on the discovery of the sites of intervention; contributions from the incubators highlight the aspirations and contingencies of the local communities, and finally, four in-depth texts – by Mirko Zardini, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, dpr-barcelona and Nina Bassoli – frame the Pavilion project within the broader context of the discipline.