At the ticket office of the #biennalearchitettura2023 in #Venice I'm asked by which means of #transport we came here, the exhibition would try to balance #climate emissions. When I answered: "by train", the student at the ticket office seemed to be relieved, but her reaction showed clearly that this wasn't the answer she was used to. So here to everyone: #Venezia can easily and comfortably be reached by #train. Use it to come to
https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023
The #German #pavilion at #biennalearchitettura2023 turns out to be a #reuse #recycle #workshop cum #storage: Materials from the #biennalearte2022 are being transformed into furniture and more for and with various #cultural, #social and #communal projects like the #centrosocialerivolta in Porto Marghera, among others in collaboration w/ # @bellevuedimonaco! Good work!
If you wonder why the #biennalearchitettura2023 #pavilion of the #Czech and the #Slovak republics in the #Giardini seems closed (it's under construction), with a scarse video presentation in front of it: The Czech exhibition "The Office for a Non-#Precarious Future" is being shown on #Arsenale, featuring the toxic working conditions in #architecture, with an important message to all (knowledge) workers: Organize, #unionize .
Another example for the #biennalearchitettura2023's attempts to mitigate its #climate impact can be found on the menus of the on-site #cafes: three dishes marked as #carbon-neutral. Why not all? Why not a single #organic dish, no organic #fairtrade'd #coffee (which would make a difference for an event of this size)? A single organic softdrink was on display, as everything else in a #one-way #plastics bottle. Even the coffee is served in throw-away paper cups covered w/ plastics. Disappointing.
@organictraveller ah yes, it's the work from the EAWAG with their urine concentration technology, nice to see them at an architectural event! https://www.eawag.ch/en/info/portal/news/news-detail/eawag-technology-at-the-venice-biennale-of-architecture/
Alternatives to #flushtoilets in times of diminishing #freshwater supplies around the globe are a prominent topic at the #Venice #biennalearchitettura2023 : While the #Finnish #pavilion shows a traditional #Huussi dry #toilet producing natural #fertilizer which will be used at a #communal #gardening project on one of the #Venezia'n islands after the exhibition, you can actually use a dry circular toilet (or a unisex #urinal) producing fertilizer at the #German pavilion.
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