Call for Application: Non-Extractive Architecture Research Platform

Coinciding with the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the project sets out to examine — and redefine — the public’s expectations of the architect and architects’ expectations of themselves. Outcomes of this process will continuously be exhibited, turning the venue into a ever-changing exhibition space to distribute the research findings and to advocate the principles investigated.

At V–A–C Foundation, the architect and curator Joseph Grima, working with design research studio Space Caviar, curates a year-long project in the Venice location of Palazzo delle Zattere examining the material, social, economic and environmental implications of architecture as a practice in the 21st century.

The project will be articulated through several parallel initiatives that will simultaneously activate V–A–C Zattere on multiple levels, turning the entire Palazzo into a living laboratory for a new understanding of architecture and environmental design.