Triennale Milano
Photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani, DSL Studio
Exhibition

Cities

Until November 9 2025
For centuries, cities have been places of opportunity, where distances are shortened and imbalances are reduced thanks to the dialogue and interaction between diversities. Today, however, they are also places where inequalities grow more rapidly and in an increasingly evident way. What can urban planning and architecture do to restore a balance between inhabitants, cities and opportunities?
The exhibition is conceived as an atlas of places, themes, and projects from inhabited lands across the globe, brought together within an imagined geography. Its aim is to propose an alternative vision of development—one that departs from traditional economic and geopolitical analyses of inequality—and to suggest unexpected pathways for growth. In the atmosphere of an abstract, fragmented, and globalized city, thirty-five site-specific installations—created by as many authors from over thirty nationalities—form a collective reflection on the evolving dialectic between wealth and poverty, society and community, ecology and cities. Together, they explore the surprising ways these tensions manifest today in the territories inhabited by our species.
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Credits
The project is part of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities.
Curated by: Nina Bassoli 
 Exhibition design: (AB)NORMAL
 Participants: 51N4E; Alejandro Aravena, ELEMENTAL; Amos Gitai; Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation; Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok Project Studio; Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab; Davide Rapp; Hyperlocal; Interboro; Kazuyo Sejima & Associates;
Kimia Zabihyan, Grenfell Next of Kin; Leonardo Galanti, Roberto Carro, Luca Rossomando, Salvatore Porcaro; Laboratorio Roma050; Limbo Accra; Lotus International; Manuel Herz Architects; Marina Otero Verzier; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Michael Obrist, feld72, TU Wien; MOS Architects; Noura Al Sayeh; OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen; 
DnA_Design and Architecture e/and Canadian Centre for Architecture; HouseEurope! (houseeurope.eu), s+ (station.plus, D-ARCH, ETHZ), b+ (bplus.xyz); Rael San Fratello; Rural Urban Framework; Sex & the City; Space Caviar; Studio Anna Heringer; The Building Society; Tosin Oshinowo e/and Kachi Benson

Highlights

Photo by Alessandro Saletta and Agnese Bedini, DSL Studio
Photo by Alessandro Saletta and Agnese Bedini, DSL Studio
Photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani, DSL Studio
International participations
Technical partner

Archives and collection

Modella posa nella sezione del Messico durante un servizio fotografico di moda
Modella posa nella sezione del Messico durante un servizio fotografico di moda
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Una modella posa all'interno della Mostra di oggetti per la casa (o Mostra Oggetti d'uso), nel Padiglione USA progettato dagli architetti Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari
Ingresso principale sul fronte ovest del Palazzo dell'Arte
Ingresso principale sul fronte ovest del Palazzo dell'Arte