10th Venice Architecture Biennale September – November 2006
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director: richard burdett, london school of economics film/video project manager: cassim shepard città: architettura e società cities: society and architecture the venice architecture biennale 2006 will focus on urbanism and the forces that influence the built environment in very large cities—flows of migration, of capital, and of urbanization. the exhibition will profile eighteen cities from across the world. each city portrait will include historical information, visualizations of quantitative data, explorations of some of its key urban challenges, and a projected video and sound collage.

the aim of the video component is to present an impressionistic counterpoint to other aspects of the exhibition. the idea is to go beneath the skin of the data sets to present something of the sensory, experiential quality of each city. utilizing a variety of film, video and sound material from different media-makers in different time periods will allow the video projections to approach the pluralism of each city and the subjectivity of each urban encounter. the aim of the video component of the exhibition is not to attempt a comprehensive cross-section of points of view on any of the cities (as that would be impossible) but rather to synthesize a diversity of voices and styles to reflect each city's complexity.

venice architecture biennale 2006 barcelona berlin bogotá cairo caracas istanbul johannesburg london los angeles mexico city milano/torino moscow mumbai new york são paulo seoul shanghai tokyo