The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, titled ‘How will we live together?’, was curated by Hashim Sarkis and organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition was open to the public from Saturday 22nd May to Sunday 21st November 2021 at the Giardini and Arsenale venues.

In 2020, Tanatswa Borerwe and Adam Moore, two architecture students from the UK successfully secured a competitive place for a one-month Steward and Research Fellowship in the 17th International Venice Biennale 2020 with the British Council, supported through HTA and Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) respectively.

During their time in Venice, they would have invigilated the British Pavillion, ‘The Garden of Privatised Delights’, curated by Manijeh Verghese and Madeleine Kessler.

In March 2021 it was decided due to risks due to COVID-19, a digital research fellowship would take place instead, this research is the outcome.

In June 2021, fellows were organised into peer research groups to digitally consider who has agency to decide “how we will we live together” (the Biennale theme), and to explore solutions to current international challenges.

Ideas for projects must have the values, approaches and criteria set each year by the British Council team in collaboration with Partners and can be research or practice-based. Fellows and Partners are encouraged to share further and showcase the resulting of the programme experience.Fellows are empowered to make collective decisions, share their vision on how they wish to showcase their projects, collaborate and share their learnings from this experience.