![]() ![]() ![]() To associate this term to a continent like Africa is to highlight a number of inherent contradictions within the relationship between the industrialized world and what is still referred to as the developing world. Decarbonization is therefore closely linked to the reduction of harmful emissions resulting from the use of energy produced with fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil). The second key word is Decarbonization, which literally means the process of reducing the carbon to hydrogen ratio in energy sources. The Parliament of Ghosts installation by Ibrahim Mahama Andrea Penisto In this sense, the architectural projects and spatial planning strategies that appear sporadically and seemingly unevenly in the spaces set up by Lokko, become an opportunity for the verification of this process which through the imaginative work is transferred to the field of reality. Imagination can therefore become creative by sparking innovative processes and radical change. At the same time, imagination is capable of activating a creative process distinguished by the grounding or the creation of something new that has never been seen before. The description of a series of ongoing phenomena, related to the changes of our planet and the unstable reorganization of socioeconomic balances involving major swaths of the world’s population, become a testament and warning with respect to choices of the past, leaving several avenues open for those who would like to deal operationally with such critical issues for our future. Many of the works and research on display are still outlined hypotheses of potential scenarios, without necessarily drawing out designs. First, let’s clear the field of a false linguistic myth: creativity and imagination are two different skills, both of which certainly communicate with each other, but with different characteristics, acting at two distinct moments of any process that requires them. To begin approaching the kaleidoscopic content produced by 89 participants, it is perhaps useful to consider the role of the term Imagination within the exhibition. Identity Column within the Griot installation by Studio Barnes Andrea Penisto It’s impossible to build a better world if you don’t imagine it first. “Central to all the projects is the primacy and potency of one tool: the imagination,” explains Lokko. ![]() What do we wish to say? How will what we say change anything? And, perhaps most importantly of all, how will what we say interact with and infuse what ‘others’ say, so that the exhibition is not a single story, but multiple stories that reflect the vexing, gorgeous kaleidoscope of ideas, contexts, aspirations, and meanings that is every voice responding to the issues of its time?” There are three key words that recur in the statements of Lokko and Biennale President Roberto Cicutto, each of which takes on multiple meanings when associated with the works presented in the context of the International Exhibition, set up in the spaces of the Central Pavilion of the Giardini and the Corderie of the Arsenale: Imagination, Decarbonization and Decolonization. The entrance of the central The Laboratory of the Future exhibit by Lesley Lokko in the Arsenale for the Biennale of Architecture 2023 Andrea PenistoĪccording to Lokko herself, “(…) For the first time ever, the spotlight has fallen on Africa and the African Diaspora, that fluid and enmeshed culture of people of African descent that now straddles the globe. ![]()
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