Soon humanity will no longer be able to live as expansively and wastefully as it has in the past, and yet new living spaces must be created. Exhibitors from 63 countries will show what sustainable building can look like at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. Niger is this year's newcomer. Although Panama has participated in the Architecture Biennale before, 2023 will be the first time the country has its own pavilion. Entitled The Laboratory of the Future, it will focus on architecture from the African continent and its diaspora, with the hope of charting a course for the future. Sustainable building and decolonial processes define the ideas that visitors can experience from May 20 to November 26.
The curator of the 18th edition is Lesley Lokko, who was on the international jury of the Architecture Biennale two years ago. The daughter of a Ghanaian father and a Scottish mother, she holds a doctorate in architecture from London. Lokko (b. 1964) has taught at various universities in Europe, Australia, Africa and North America. She sees this year's edition of the Biennale as »a glimpse of future practices and ways of seeing and being in the world.«
