Finissage
On Saturday 22 November at 3pm, the Flanders Architecture Institute (VAi) and Bureau Bas Smets will organise the closing event of Building Biospheres in the Belgian pavilion at the 19th Architecture Biennale in Venice. During a discussion, curator Bas Smets (Bureau Bas Smets), researcher Kathy Steppe (Ghent University) and bioengineer Dirk De Pauw (Plant AnalytiX) will look back on six months of research and experimentation. Dennis Pohl (director of VAi) will moderate the discussion.
Until 23 November, you can discover Building Biospheres in the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. In the exhibition landscape architect Bas Smets and neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso investigate how the natural intelligence of plants can be used to produce an indoor climate. For six months, the pavilion has served as a prototype for this innovative research.
What has emerged after half a year of experimentation? How did the plants respond, and what kind of indoor climate did they generate? What insights will guide the next phase of the research? On 22 November, the curator and the researchers will engage in a discussion and share their findings with the public.
22.11.2025
3pm
Belgian Pavilion, Giardini, Biennale Architettura, Venice
Free of admission with a ticket of the biennale
English
From 10 May to 23 November 2025, the Flanders Architecture Institute and Bureau Bas Smets i.c.w. Stefano Mancuso will present the Building Biospheres project at the 19th Biennale Architettura in Venice.
