Il Progetto Speciale al Padiglione delle Arti Applicate presso le Sale d’Armi dell’Arsenale, si interroga sul futuro del social housing presentando un frammento del complesso di case popolari, Robin Hood Gardens, che fu progettato da Alison e Peter Smithson nell'East London e completato nel 1972. Resa possibile grazie alla collaborazione della Biennale con il Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra che si rinnova per il terzo anno consecutivo, la mostra è a cura di Christopher Turner e Olivia Horsfall Turner.
For their third collaboration, La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will present an exhibition focusing on Robin Hood Gardens, the Brutalist council estate designed by British architects Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003), which is currently being demolished. In the context of a national and international housing crisis, and in light of the Biennale’s theme of ‘Freespace’, what can we learn for the future of social housing from the vision and ultimate fate of Robin Hood Gardens? The exhibition centres on a large-scale architectural fragment of Robin Hood Gardens and a specially commissioned film by Korean artist Do Ho Suh that documents the architecture and interiors of the internationally recognised London housing estate.