Beyond Exhibiting. Discourse at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

The 2025 19 th Venice Architecture Biennale (curated by Carlo Ratti and open from May 10, through November 23, 2025) offers a rich program of collateral events, such as conferences, round tables, workshops, collective actions, performances, etc., expanding on past editions efforts.Aligned with the general theme of the Biennale, Intelligens.Natural.Artificial.Collective, these events aim at putting the current collective intelligence on architecture, design and urbanism at work.If not to implement (which is beyond the scope of an organization such as the Biennale), at least to frame, reconnect, redefine, re-envision questions and possible answers for our current and future challenges.Among these events, of particular interest is the series of workshops and conversations within the "GENS Public Program."As Carlo Ratti put it:The Biennale Architettura 2025 aims to convene various intelligences to confront today's challenges.Both the Exhibition Intelligens.Natural.Artificial.Collective.and the "GENS Public Programme" reach out beyond architecture, bursting its bubble through cross-disciplinary dialogues and international collaborations.Collectively driven workshops will coexist with academic institutions and global non-profit organizations, creating spaces and conversations that are open to all. 1 [] Ultimately, the Biennale Architettura 2025 is more than an exhibition; it is an experiment in uniting different voices and forms of intelligence.Some will resonate louder than others.Nonetheless,