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City to Dust, realized by Lorien Beijaert e Arna Mačkić from Amsterdam’s Studio L A in collaboration with designer Baukje Trenning, is among the installations of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition one of those who deeper interacts with the venue where it takes place. A terrazzo flooring recreates the map of Venice, forcing visitors to cross it and to experience the consequences of each of their steps, which constantly breaks away parts of the artwork. Through this interactive project, Studio L A succeeds in materializing in front of the eyes of the visitors and beneath their feet the extractive process through which the city of Venice is daily consumed by millions of tourists, endangering its survival as a real city both in a social, cultural and material way. Everyone who walks over the installation, making it crumble into dust, is then forced to recognize his own role, as a Biennale and Venice visitor, in the constant unfolding of one of the major challenges that many cities are facing worldwide, that of overtourism and its related colonial economy.

City to dust è un’installazione interattiva progettata dalle architette Lorien Beijaert e Arna Mačkić dello Studio LA di Amsterdam in collaborazione con la designer Baukje Trenning. L'articolo attraversa criticamente quest'opera come occasione per riflettere sul futuro di Venezia che rischia di morire schiacciata da un violento fenomeno di over-tourism