The Holy See in Biennial in Venice: Operations

Maria Melvia Murciano – Vatican City

“To deal with the world of flame, architecture must be able to benefit from all the intelligence that surrounds us”: With these words, the architect and engineer Carlo Rati, the Venice Biennial Commissioner (Italy), presented the subject of 2025 edition: intelligence. natural. industrial. collective.

Dicastery participates in culture and education for the third time, this year with a pavilion called “Apraa Opera”, which since this year has a permanent headquarters in the Santa Maria Oselite Day Complex, Saster (alive) in Lagonar.

“Every two years directed by Carlo Rati, whose topic is intelligence, our wing suggests the idea of ​​societal intelligence. We wonder how we can respond to the task and philosophy that the wing wants to express. ” Thus, the “Apiraa Opera” project was born, as a result of a group experience in which professionals from all over the world participated: Mexican and Spanish architecture studies, and Austrian and Italian collaborators – many of them in Venice – and representatives of the Holy See. The Commissioner explains: “This joint effort intends to recover not only the building, but also a social link. As Cardinal from Mendonça, citing Pope Francis, said:” We do not need to occupy spaces, but for opening operations. “

explanation

“The issue of restoration gave us the opportunity to work in this joint house,” Zabouti added. “The intervention affects a group of buildings that have been empty for years. We try to make meaning to this silence, through the language of listening and architectural restoration. It is not a suite to visit it, but for housing. ”The patient explains the“ patient in treatment ”, but he will open at the intervention points, and the visitor will also close the roles, and there is an insertion at a time when the roles are closed, as they are approved, and will be inserted at a time when the roles are closed, as they are approved, as it was approved at a time when the roles are closed. For music: Many spaces will be allocated to young musicians from Venice and around the world who will visit the wing.

Project heroes

Guest studies are Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, from Mexico City, and Maio Collective. The presence of the female will be many and this is a very important aspect. “Along with Marina Otiro Vericier, the Joint Commission, we suggest a wing that is also considered a vision for the future: a concrete reflection on how the church contributes to drawing new guidelines in architecture,” Giovanna Zabotti continues, which proves this, which proves this, and is excluded from those that prove those that are installed on that, and recover those activities. Those who want to live today. ”

Community intelligence

“Every two years is not only artificial intelligence, but for intelligence in a broad sense: human, natural, collective. Through Laudato Enceclical if this year is ten years old. It also opens it in life and relationships,” explained by the Cardinal Jose Tolinino de Mendona, Governor of Culture of Culture and Education.

Hands and hearts

Finally, Mindkone is noticed: “Caring for an old body, fixing and opening it to the world is a work between generations.” “The building, which includes the wing, was the first pilgrim hospital in Venice: Today he returns to life, and included people of all ages. Pope Francis reminds us that there is intelligence and hearts, not just the mind. With hands, head and heart, we work together to build a social and cultural experience. “Opera Aberta” is an invitation to work and openness to the world.

The reform process

“We are pleased to suggest a radical idea, focusing on architecture as a repair process,” architect Tatiana Bilbao, who heads the Bilbao Studio, told “Opera Apirata”. “Not only material reform of spaces, but also from social compensation, in a dialogue with the Castello community.”