Water Parliaments: Projective Ecosocial Architectures it deals with one of the issues that affect people the most, the water crisis, and it does so from an ecological, cultural and political point of view. After its exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale, inaugurated on May 8, during 2026 the project will have continuity through different initiatives: theAtlas of Water Architectures online, which will continue to incorporate and map water-related issues and initiatives around the world, part of the exhibition will be on view from March 12 to Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands in Palma, and the project will form part of the exhibition programme UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona of the International Union of Architects, which will take place from June 28 to July 2 next year at various locations in Barcelona under the motto “Becoming. Architectures for a planet in transition”.
The project by Eva Franch and Gilabert, Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño has had four main axes: the Futures Laboratorieswhere, based on multidisciplinary workshops, the voices of scientists, artists, farmers and activists have been heard; theexhibition in Venice, with short audiovisual pieces to illustrate the research work of this project and a collection of speculative prototypes under a tensioned fabric structure; theAtlas of Water Architecturesa public agora to discuss the relationship between humans and water; and the book 100 words for water: a vocabularywhich collects more than 100 new water-related terms proposed and defined by contributors from around the world. The exhibition in Venice has had 16,448 visits.
The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia which, under the direction of Carlo Ratti, has had as its motto intelligent natural artificial Collectivehas closed with a total of 298,000 tickets sold (+5% compared to 2023).
The Ramon Llull Institute produces and organizes the participation of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the Eventi Collaterali of the Venice Biennale, and has been present at the Architecture Biennale since 2012 and the Art Biennale since 2009. Since 2009, more than 139,000 people have gone through the different Catalan proposals.
