The catalogue of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale) is out! Nick Axel @alucidwake did an amazing job in documenting the 300+ projects featured in the main exhibition! I am happy to contribute with a commissioned essay 👇

This is the land of anticipatory capitulation.

Exciting autumn program of Architecture events at @e_flux, featuring a workshop and platform launch of Feminist Spatial Practices, @ccawire, Alfredo Thiermann, @mLokko, Shannon Mattern, and Ayeta Khorakiwala https://t.co/FUD6Sjaq6L

"Ghost planning precipitates practices and radical dreams that bring about alternative support systems, infrastructures, and modes of future-making."

"Ghost planning is a mode of ideation and ideological expansion that proceeds through incantatory media, reports, and communiqués, renewing and rearticulating existing infrastructures of mobility and extraction."

It features contributions by @jamieallen and @arminapilav, @rouzbeh92 , @dreyer_jacob, @engelhardt_x and @markcinkevich, Andrea Gonzalez Garran, @az_mashayekhi and Rend Beiruti, Furqat Palvan-Zade, @bulletprooflama, @detectiveyes, Ina Valkanova, and @garyzhexizhang.

New Silk Roads returns with a new edition, "Ghost Planning and Infrastructural Incantation, in collaboration with the @cmlbasel and @NoemaMag. https://t.co/NqiNp5eWDo

Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds #regionalism

"The task at hand is to introduce the unknowable, uncertain, serendipitous, diverse—which is to say, wisdom, rather than data—into computational design."

"A central irony of spatial computing is that there is now effectively no outside to computation. … If there is no outside, conscious computation must move beyond technological determinism, the black box, and the dream of “liberation” from data and the map.

From the editorial: "“Spatial computing” is a term that was only added to Wikipedia in January 2024, in response to Apple’s introduction of a new mixed reality device, which they refer to as a “spatial computer.” … But do we not already live in an era of spatial computing?

It features contributions by @darebrawley, Catherine Griffiths, @laurakurgan, @sam_lavigne and @tegabrain, @erin_mc_elroy, Lai Yi Ohlsen, @thistimeitsmimi, and @luciarebolino.

Spatial Computing is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the M.S. in Computational Design Practices Program (@gsapp_cdp) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University (@ColumbiaGSAPP). https://t.co/OQiBS9sO1Q

All essays have already been published online! https://t.co/2qMm5NlNus

"Hence, there is a need to delineate and terminologically capture the economical, architectural, and social practices behind it. We need to reframe what renovation can be, and what it can do."

"Renovation can therefore be a dignified means of reconciliation, reparation, and justice. Renovation, today, is an obligation. Currently, it realizes itself in a variety of forms that break with past practices and present new actualities…

"While demolition and new construction pushes the past into the realm of oblivion, renovation not only acknowledges the value and weight of what came before, but also has the potential to change it…

From the editorial: "Any process of renovation is forced to reckon and engage with the history, the context, and the stories of a place. As such, renovation ultimately has the potential to transcend the material and operate metaphysically, through meaning, purpose, and identity…

It features Merve Bedir; Ana Dana Beroš & Mika Savela; Arno Brandlhuber, Ludwig Engel, Olaf Grawert, & Alina Kolar; Rocío Calzado; Future Foodscapes Research Unit; Nicole Kalms; Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag; Alessandro Petti & Sandi Hilal; Robida Collective; and Katrina Wiberg.

Framing Renovation is a collaboration between @e_flux Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana within the context of the 2023–24 @LINA_community Architecture Program. https://t.co/wVAs9TwFal