Architecture as an Earth practice

Join the curators of the British Pavilion for the 2025 Venice Biennale as they present a compelling lecture-performance that expands on the exhibition’s central themes of repair, reparation, and resistance.

Through a fusion of storytelling, historical inquiry, and design, the curators will invite audiences to rethink the role of architecture in shaping more just and resilient futures.

Meet our contributors

Owen Hopkins is Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University – a new public centre for architecture and cities – and is responsible for all aspects of centre’s programme, management and operations. Previous roles include Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Sir John Soane’s Museum and Architecture Programme Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Her transdisciplinary research addresses the colonial afterlives of geology and race as a site of planetary transformation and social change.

Kabage Karanja is an architect, co-founder and director of Cave_bureau, an architectural and research firm based in Nairobi that he started alongside Stella Mutegi in 2014. He leads the research and aesthetic direction of the bureau and is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation.

Stella Mutegi is an architect, co-founder and director of Cave_bureau, an architectural and research firm based in Nairobi that she started alongside Kabage Karanja in 2014. She heads the technical department at Cave, where she orchestrates the seamless coordination of Cave’s ideas into built form.

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