Professor Kathryn Yusoff to be part of UK representation at 19th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2025
Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography, has been selected to be part of a team of esteemed architectural practitioners representing the UK at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia in 2025.
The British Council has announced the team of architectural practitioners selected to represent the UK at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia 2025.
The collaborative UK-Kenya curatorial team selected is:
- Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University
- Owen Hopkins, Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University
- Kabage Karanja, Co-founder & Director of Cave_bureau based in Nairobi, Kenya
- Stella Mutegi, Co-founder & Director of Cave_bureau based in Nairobi, Kenya
A panel of architects, educators and cultural professionals from across the UK and Kenya, chaired by the British Council’s Sevra Davis, selected the winning team from a shortlist of four proposals. The exhibition will explore architectures of repair, restitution, and renewal. Conceiving architecture as an earth practice that is implicated in empires of extractive geology, it looks to vernaculars as sites where the parallel and interconnected tasks of decarbonising and decolonising can be further explored and expressed.
Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography, in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London said:
“I am delighted to be working with such a brilliant team who are committed to rethinking the relationship between architecture and the earth, and with the British Council who have supported this UK-Kenya collaboration. As the earth has been a praxis of struggle, we look forward to generating architectures of repair across the intertwined colonial geographies that approach the planetary from the ground up”
Professor Kavita Datta, Head of School of Geography and Professor of Development Geography at Queen Mary University of London said:
“This is a fantastic and important achievement for Kathryn and her colleagues, cementing her position as an international scholar working on reparative justice. We – her colleagues in the School of Geography - eagerly await the Exhibition!”