The creative team for Future Islands, the New Zealand exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, is looking for unbuilt projects to be considered for inclusion in the exhibition.

Future Islands will present Aotearoa New Zealand’s architecture within an expanded field – as metaphorical islands of different ways of practicing architecture in an increasingly diverse society. The exhibition aims to locate projects within an atmospheric environment of floating islands, as a metaphor for real, experimental or imaginary ways of living, and a response to the collection of islands that is Venice.

The creative team says: “We’re looking for as-yet unseen projects that by their nature of being unbuilt tell a compelling story about some future condition. The projects may be competition entries, or theoretical propositions, or visionary ideas or real projects that are not yet built (or may never be built). The exhibitions will (re-) locate these projects within an imagined island context. Visitors to the Biennale will be encouraged to explore, linger, and be affected by our different and sometimes strange antipodean environment.”

All projects will be exhibited as physical models.

Submission details:

Should be submitted by email to venice@nzia.co.nz
Length of proposal: No more than four A4 pages
Content: Should include drawings, text and/or photographs of any models that communicate the scope and aims of the project
Format: PDF, no larger than 5MB
Deadline: 30 July 2015