Nina Bassoli, ‘Cities’

Just two days before the inauguration of the nineteenth Venice Architecture Biennale, the Milan Triennale kicked off its twenty-fourth Esposizione Internazionale, titled ‘Inequalities.’ Following ‘Broken Nature’ in 2019 and ‘Unknown Unknowns’ in 2022, this edition ends a trilogy which broadens the traditional scope of architecture to cover the vast – and ambitious – sphere of geopolitics. The similarity of their themes makes it all the more clear that Venice and Milan abide by the current mainstream of thought: ‘woke’ culture applied to the world of design, with its usual watchwords: sustainability, defense of nature, reuse and recycling, biodiversity, minorities, and so on...[+]