Carlo Ratti’s Biennale is all about intelligence: evidently, a not
insignificant theme. Natural intelligence, artificial intelligence
and collective intelligence, the latter, by its own nature, mostly
anonymous: these are the three aspects through which the exhibition has been, more or less explicitly, structured. Fifty-three projects for the natural sphere, thirty for the artificial one, twenty-two for the collective part (the most politicized, but not ideologized). The goal – at least partially achieved – is the creation of
an international interdisciplinary laboratory in which architecture meets the sciences that are building our contemporaneity:
biology, data, social and planetary sciences. At the Corderie is
the most interesting and stimulating part of the entire exhibition:
an impressive sequence of spectacular installations, largely conceived and developed by interdisciplinary working groups, which
ambitiously present themselves as laboratory tests or, perhaps,
fragments of newly built worlds.
