KANVA + LAURENCE DAUPHINAIS - 2025 Venice Biennale Architecture Shortlist
We are proud to be among the 5 shortlisted teams for the 2025 Venice Biennale.
Our societies are confronted with innumerable challenges – social inequalities, ecological devastations, financial austerity, seclusion and overconsumption of resources. And in response, as an embedded symbol of growth, we build continuously. Paradoxically, there is a low rate of occupation within our built environment. Most existing spaces, with services and amenities, sit empty up to half the time, regardless of program. The notion of interstitial occupation is perhaps an opportunity to address these challenges.
KANVA + LAURENCE DAUPHINAIS seek to fill these physical and societal voids with a bottom-up approach. Through digital engagement and the overlaying of a diversity of occupations in single places, architecture becomes a community actor for healing a polarized society and forging togetherness.