The Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week. Installing it during the pandemic has forced participants to work in a more collaborative and sustainable way in line with the event's key themes, according to curator Hashim Sarkis.
"It has definitely affected, in a creative way, the question of efficiency and how we can reduce our carbon footprint," Sarkis told Dezeen.
"Many teams sent one person, many teams sent no one, and those who are close enough to Venice came by car or by truck," said Sarkis ahead of the biennale's invitation-only preview, taking place from 19 to 21 May.
"So that has significantly re-imagined how we can exhibit in a more effective and environmentally conscious way."
Architect Hashim Sarkis has curated the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 Sarkis, a Lebanese architect and dean of architecture and planning at MIT, curated this year's event around the theme of "How will we live together""
Open to the public from 22 May to 21 November, this year's Venice Architecture Biennale aims to answer the question by asking participants to envision spaces where people from around the world can come together, despite widening political and economic divides, to share their solutions to global problems.
?Talent and imagination are not restricted to advanced development economically,? Sarkis said. ?I hope this message comes across in this biennale.?
The biennale takes place a year later than originally intended as the coro...