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"Privatised public space is such a global phenomenon" - @ManijehVerghese, curator for this year’s #BritishPavilion at @la_Biennale explores the increasing #privatisation of #publicspaces on our final #DesignandtheCity episode of the season: buff.ly/3iB0P0s @UnsceneArch

"We're looking at how simple design moves can make a huge difference to people's experience of the city" - #BritishPavilion curator on how they reimagined privatised #publicspaces at this year's @la_Biennale on #DesignandtheCIty: buff.ly/3xgdJ9L @UnsceneArch

"The #design almost manifests this process that the more you know about these spaces, the more you know what you're able to do, the more you should be able to care for them" — @ManijehVerghese, #BritishPavilion curator at @la_Biennale on our podcast: buff.ly/3iifqO

"Is there a possibility of simply being a #community, rather than constantly having to acquire your belonging through your activity?" —Helge Mooshammer, #AustrianPavilion curator explores #platformurbanism on our @la_Biennale episode of #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3kZkxps

"The pub has often become the modern-day public toilet. In our own lives, we have often met together & brainstormed ideas in the pub, using it as everything from a living room to a waiting room" —@ManijehVerghese, @UnsceneArch on #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3knaVob

"The activity becomes the leading motif of #architectural #design. What also becomes remarkable is a lot of the activity is not geared to any particular purpose or function" —Helge Mooshammer, #AustrianPavilion @la_Biennale explores #platformurbanism: buff.ly/3kZkxps

"We've found it inspiring to work with young people—to understand how they think about their city. Often, spaces we assumed they felt very safe in, they might feel dangerous in, & vice versa" — @MaddieKessler_ on #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3hJorAZ #VeniceBiennale

"The institutions are currently the curators of that particular information landscape. Platforms are the organizer of public discourse & the most concrete example of who is curating that landscape" —Peter Mörtenböck, #AustrianPavilion on #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3kZkxps

"These kinds of spaces that are so important to bring people together in the public realm, are just disappearing" —@ManijehVerghese, on the curation of the #BritishPavilion which explores the increasing privatisation of #publicspaces. Listen on #Podcast: buff.ly/3B7HUCZ

"The privatization of #publicspace has been increasing over the past 50 years, now confronted with the reality that these spaces are needed for leisure, public health, social distancing, education—all of that" —#HashimSarkis, @la_Biennale Listen now: buff.ly/2US8SxX

"What kind of architecture emerges then if there is no function almost, or as we conventionally understand it?" — Helge Mooshammer buff.ly/3kZkxps

"How do we get younger people who aren't #architects to engage in this exhibition because it's so important to have them as part of this conversation about their city" @MadelineKessler, #BritishPavilion curator on #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3AqAr0B #privatisedpublicspace

"In the air among young #architects—the interest in going beyond designing objects to designing systems. That's very challenging, b/c systems are sometimes invisible, and how do you design them?" — #HashimSarkis, @la_Biennale curator on #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/36GF6yQ

"What does it mean for a society that is based on the aim & idea of activity? How values are generated through activity, always being productive & active?" — #HelgeMooshammer, #AustrianPavilion @la_Biennale curator on how platforms have shaped our spaces: buff.ly/3kZkxps

"We think about [teenagers] as a huge group that use our cities & don't have any specific spaces for them to enjoy & have a sense of ownership of" —@ManijehVerghese, #BritishPavilion curator @la_Biennale exploring privatized #publicspace on the #podcast: buff.ly/3ikdpRx

"We are the custodians of the contract—the contract to build" The long-awaited 17th Venice @la_Biennale explores the question: “How will we live together?” Catch curator, #HashimSarkis + @Greg_Lindsay on this special EP of #DesignandtheCity: buff.ly/3sbo45S

"We are talking about several issues with platforms & how they could be restructured to transform these different questions—of access, of servicing cities, & how those aspects could be transformed to create a more open-ended manner" — Peter Mörtenböck buff.ly/3kZkxps