"As 2025 unfolded, the discipline, confronted with evolving environmental and social realities, entered a broader turning point in how it understands its role and how users engage with it. Throughout the year, exhibitions shifted focus away from buildings as isolated objects toward a broader understanding of relationships between ecology, equity, everyday life, and collective imaginaries. Across institutions and cities, they operated less as showcases and more as discursive platforms: places where architecture was not only presented, but also imagined, questioned, and collectively redefined."
"As Carlo Ratti noted in an ArchDaily interview during the pre-opening of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, exhibitions today can "hybridize the way that people come together," an ambition that echoed across cities and institutions as exhibitions evolved into spaces for debate, experimentation, and collective reflection. Exhibitions are places where architects and designers meet, where conversations unfold openly with the public, and where ideas emerge through spontaneous exchanges among passersby."
Exhibitions in 2025 reframed architecture from isolated objects to relational practices connecting ecology, equity, everyday life, and collective imaginaries. Institutions and cities repurposed exhibitions as discursive platforms that present, imagine, question, and collectively redefine architectural roles. Exhibitions functioned as sites for debate, experimentation, and public reflection, enabling architects, designers, and passersby to engage through spontaneous exchanges. Curated displays operated as interfaces that translate spatial, environmental, and political questions into accessible experiences across museums, streets, pavilions, and public spaces. Exhibitions expanded architectural discourse beyond professional circles by amplifying thinking to wider audiences and turning design into a shared cultural conversation.
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