Fertile Futures — Volume 1

The publication Fertile Futures presents the programme developed for the Official Portuguese Representation at the 18th International Exhibition of Architecture — La Biennale di Venezia.Launched on the exhibition's opening day, thisfirst volume reveals the premises of Fertile Futures project, presenting the theme of the protection, management and future of freshwater, from the procedural record of the first moments of the project. It gathers, from the transcript of the interventions of experts and advisors in the first Assembly of Thought, the sharing of knowledge that marked the start of the project laboratory, andand also records and accompaniesthe laboratory process of the seven Hydrogeography Workshops.This initial volume reveals the origins of the proposed models on display at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice from 20 May until 26 November 2023.

Fertile Futures — Volume 2

The second volume of Fertile Futures presents the entire laboratory developed during the programme of the Portuguese Official Representation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2023. Firstly, it reveals the perspectives and referential frameworks of each of the seven approaches to the problems of Portuguese hydrogeographies in the Fertile Futures exhibition, on display in Venice from May to November 2023. The second chapter focuses on the second phase of the laboratory, which took the form of the International Summer Seminar and brought together, in July 2023 in Fundão, more than seventy students from multiple geographies to work in a practical seminar context with the architecture teams, in the search for the reasons underlying the contribution of architecture to the issues under study. The third part presents the critical essays resulting from the interventions at the Assemblies of Thought in Venice, Braga, Faro and Porto Santo. The fourth and final part, brings together the essays published in the course of the editorial partnership with e-flux Architecture.