The Biennale Architettura is the largest festival of its kind — kind of like a World’s Fair, but built around architectural and design projects showcasing revolutionary thinking. Three separate projects from Northeastern University are represented this year, all of them, in some way, telling a story about our changing relationship to data and information, from water-based computers to self-distorting photographs.
For the past 130 years, the Venice Biennale has welcomed some of the most renowned thinkers in the art world, occurring every other year. In 1980, they began hosting the architectural Biennale in alternate years. The event is “supposed to bring together the best projects in their domain,” says Albert-László Barabási, a university distinguished professor of physics and network science at Northeastern University.
