Closing discussion and book preview for Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet
November 22, 2025, 2pm
Fondamenta Diedo, Cannaregio 2386
Venice 30121
Italy
Shaping Climate Objects: November 22, 2–4pm, Palazzo Diedo, Fondamenta Trapolin, 2386, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy.
MIT Department of Architecture with Berggruen Arts & Culture / Palazzo Diedo. A collateral event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice.
The MIT Department of Architecture invites you to Shaping Climate Objects, a closing conversation for the Next Earth Exhibition at Palazzo Diedo, and a preview of its accompanying publication, Climate Objects (MIT/SA+P Press, 2026).
The event brings together designers, theorists, and researchers to reflect on the idea that any architectural project today produces an object with agency in the climate crisis. Throughout the last decade, the MIT School of Architecture and Planning has centered its work on the interconnected influence of buildings on multiple ecologies, building on the department’s long history and MIT’s vision for the future.
MIT’s contribution to the Next Earth exhibition, Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet, interrogates the creative and cognitive realignments necessary to build a global future. The exhibition features 37 works in progress by MIT faculty, each displaying a sample of a world that reimagines topics ranging from material supply chains, energy expenditure, modes of practice, and advances in construction. These works speculate on how architecture relates to, and actively reconfigures the planet, offering new paradigms for shaping, narrating, computing, and rebuilding our world. The objects at the center of these re-worldings form the bases for our discussion, and for the forthcoming book, Climate Objects.
Like the exhibition, the book foregrounds methods over solutions; it understands the climate crisis not as a background condition but as a mode of research and a way of seeing relations that architecture has long shaped. The panel will include a response by Lionel Devlieger, Associate Professor in Cultural and Material History of Architectural Practice, Ghent University
Join us at Palazzo Diedo for a collective reflection on architectures made through, and for, our changing planet.
