Coming up: Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit at Venice Biennale 2025

The Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit, launched at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels in 2024 and organized in collaboration with the New European Bauhaus, CultTech Association, and our partner TBA21–Academy, is far more than a conventional conference.

Hosted at Ocean Space in Venice as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, this one-day event on 10 May 2025, curated by Francesca Bria and Jose Luis de Vicente, serves as a living laboratory where artists, scientists, technologists, and citizens converge to reimagine Europe’s infrastructures – cultural, ecological, and digital.

The summit’s lineup brings together leading figures such as climate fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, AI art pioneers Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and institutions like Ars Electronica and CERN, reflecting the event’s commitment to interdisciplinary innovation.

A central concept of the summit is the “archipelago”: a network of diverse, interconnected initiatives. This vision resonates with the mission of Bauhaus of the Sea Sails, dedicated to building bridges between coastal communities, artists, scientists, and policymakers.

Bauhaus of the Sea Sails will be represented at the summit by TBA21–Academy, with our partner Markus Reymann participating in the dedicated panel “New European Bauhaus – Stories from the First Wave”.

As the Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit approaches, Bauhaus of the Sea Sails looks forward to contributing to the critical conversations shaping Europe’s ecological and cultural future.

Find more information about the event and how to register here.

Archipelago for Possible Futures Summit on 10 May

Photo: Nicolò Miana