Photos: Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that the Living Room Collective will represent Canada at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition ? La Biennale di Venezia, from May 10 to November 23, 2025.
Led by biodesigner Andrea Shin Ling, the Living Room Collective is a group of architects, scientists, artists and educators who work at the intersection of architecture, biology and digital fabrication technologies. The collective seeks to move society away from exploitative systems of production to regenerative ones by inventing design methods and processes that centre on natural systems. They intend to use the platform of the Venice Biennale to generate national and international conversations that ask: How does one fabricate a biological architecture" What are the conditions of stewardship" What are the strategies to instigate this at scale, regionally and globally" The group’s project for the Biennale proposes a large-scale living pavilion that utilizes materials embedded with biologically active, living cells in an architectural context. “Using innovative fabrication techniques, functionalities such as structural reinforcement and carbon sequestration will be integrated into living structures that are then tended to throughout their life cycle,” writes the group. “In the face of climate collapse, the Living Room Collective proposes a new model of architecture that places regenerative proc...