In Venice, Future Cities

The ten selected projects of the Future Cities — Planning for the 90 per cent open call will be exhibited at the Magazzini del Sale — Punta della Dogana, from 27 August to 1 September 2012, during the upcoming 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Future Cities — Planning for the 90 per cent was an open call for visual projects in any media capable of transforming our urban spaces. Artists, photographers, architects and designers were invited to reflect on issues facing people in private and public spaces around the world, such as housing, transport, environment, leisure, overcrowding, proposing low cost, low tech solutions to improve conditions and understanding.

In forty years time, seven out of the world's nine billion inhabitants will be living in cities. Almost half will be living in non-formal accommodation. The need to improve the metabolism of the metropolis by designing for conditions and environments which have always been considered emergency situations is now urgent and necessary. Future Cities — Planning for the 90 per cent was an invitation to take a harder look at the real city wherever you happened to be, making time to think about the very important improvements that can be made by creative and thoughtful solutions to everyday problems.