For centuries, cities have been places of opportunity, where distances are shortened and imbalances are reduced thanks to the dialogue and interaction between diversities. Today, however, they are also places where inequalities grow more rapidly and in an increasingly evident way. What can urban planning and architecture do to restore a balance between inhabitants, cities and opportunities?
The exhibition is conceived as an atlas of places, themes, and projects from inhabited lands across the globe, brought together within an imagined geography. Its aim is to propose an alternative vision of development—one that departs from traditional economic and geopolitical analyses of inequality—and to suggest unexpected pathways for growth. In the atmosphere of an abstract, fragmented, and globalized city, thirty-five site-specific installations—created by as many authors from over thirty nationalities—form a collective reflection on the evolving dialectic between wealth and poverty, society and community, ecology and cities. Together, they explore the surprising ways these tensions manifest today in the territories inhabited by our species.