La Biennale Di Venezia 2025
19th International Architecture Exhibition
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Team Credits:
Adam Samson, Alex Morozov, Alistair Ramage, Caio Villela, Christian Burke, Cosku Turhan, Seungmin Lee, Dasha Orlova, Dave Hunt, Delaney Kough, Dogukan Yesilcimen, Efe Mert Kaya, Efsun Erkilic, Hye Min Cho, Jennifer Plackemeier, Jules Hyun, Kelian Maissen, Kerim Karaoglu, Kyle McLean, Kyle Thomas Miller, Laura Cohen, Linda Berke, Maurizio Braggiotti, Michael Alchermes, Michael Hsiu, Mert Cobanov, Michael Hsiu, Nidhi Parsana, Nikolai Garcia, Pelin Kivrak,Simon Burke, Vinicius Harres, Will Young, Xi Wang, Yetong Xin, Yufan Xie
Curated by Carlo Ratti
Technology Partner: Blackboxxr
Special Thanks:
Dataland, the world’s first museum of AI Arts;
Google, for providing sustainable Cloud support that powered our data processing;
NVIDIA, for their advanced GPU computing and software that enabled cutting-edge visualizations; and
The Smithsonian, for generously sharing open-source data that served as the foundation of our creative exploration. Their unwavering support, visionary collaboration, and shared commitment to innovation have helped us push the boundaries of art, data, and technology in new and exciting ways.
We sincerely thank our incredible partners for making our Venice Biennale installation possible.
Living Architecture: Biophilia is an AI Data Sculpture that transforms more than 100 million images of Earth’s diverse flora, fauna, and fungi into immersive, hyper-realistic environmental experiences. This installation brings nature to life in a digital realm, allowing visitors to engage with the Earth’s ecosystems in new ways. The project reimagines ecocentric environmentalism by combining the intelligence of nature, humans, and AI. Accounting for these different forms of intelligence is essential in building adaptive architectures and networks that reflect the complexity of natural systems. Nature’s intelligence, with its complex patterns and processes, offers a blueprint for resilience and adaptability. Human intelligence contributes cultural, emotional, and functional understandings of space and place. AI acts as a bridge, processing vast amounts of data to create dynamic, responsive environments that evolve with their ecosystems. This dialogue between intelligences challenges conventional architectural thinking, encouraging us to design structures and networks that are not only functional but also deeply integrated with the environments they inhabit. By blending art, technology, and environmental data, Living Architecture: Biophilia demonstrates how this intersection can help us envision a future where digital innovation informs the creation of sustainable, intelligent ecosystems—both natural and built.
