Biennale College Architettura 2023

Yemí was invited to be a critic for the first ever Biennale College. Over the course of four weeks the Biennale’s curator Lesley Lokko, 15 tutors and 9 critics, including architects, academics and international professionals, worked with 49 participants selected from 986 applications coming from students, graduates under 30, academics (PhD candidates, researchers, university assistants, tutors, teaching fellows, etc.) and emerging practitioners under 35 from all over the world. Several field trips and a series of workshops, seminars and conferences allowed the participants to explore the themes of the Exhibition and to think critically and creatively about the most pressing issues of our time and The Laboratory of the Future: decolonisation and decarbonisation.