Dezeen promotion: in this Venice Biennale talk by Therme Art and V?A?C, 11 experts from the fields of architecture, design and technology discuss how we can reimagine our cities while giving back to nature.
The panel, which took place at the biennale in May and is now being broadcast exclusively by Dezeen, features architects Stefano Boeri and Joseph Grima as well as indigenous and environmental rights activist Nina Gualinga.
It was held as part of Therme's Wellbeing Culture Forum, an ongoing programme of online and offline discussions that explores how design and architecture can promote the wellbeing of both people and nature in the urban context.
Titled From Non-Extractive to Re-Generative Architectures: Growing a Symbiotic City, the talk expands on the Non-Extractive Architecture manifesto, which was launched by Grima's studio Space Caviar in April and advocates for a new kind of architecture that does not exploit the planet. Therme's talk intended to expand on this idea by looking at how cities can instead enter a reciprocal relationship with nature, in which we replenish what resources we extract in order to generate abundance in a sustainable way.
Architect Stefano Boeri discussed his vertical forest project
"Extraction could be part of connection," said Boeri, who has designed vertical forest apartment blocks in cities around the world in the hope of reconnecting their residents with local wildlife.
"I'm not totally against the idea of extracting be...