TBA21 and Ocean Space (Venice) host the Archipelago Summit 2025

A bold vision for Europe's cultural, ecological, and digital futures

May 10 – May 10, 2025

Ocean Space Venice

Programming

Ocean Space Venice

Past

At the heart of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Archipelago of Possible Futures Summit 2025 convenes a unique coalition of Europe’s most innovative voices in science, technology, culture, and the arts. Hosted at Ocean Space, this one-day gathering builds on momentum from its launch at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels, establishing a growing platform for those reimagining Europe’s infrastructures—digital, ecological, and cultural—for the transitions ahead.

 

Under the banner “Reimagining Infrastructures for Possible Futures,” the Summit features leading thinkers and creators including Kim Stanley Robinson, Kate Crawford, Evgeny Morozov, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Benjamin Bratton, and Marina Otero Verzier. Institutions like CERN, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, IAAC, and Ars Electronica join forces to explore the intersections of climate, computation, public AI, and cultural transformation.

 

From deep-sea restoration projects to AI infrastructures for the arts, the Summit invites participants to co-create “The EuroStack”—a democratic vision for European tech sovereignty—and to rethink extractive systems that underpin both the ecological and digital crises.

 

Organized in partnership with New European Bauhaus, TBA21, Gluon and the CultTech Association, the event is curated by Francesca Bria and Jose Luis de Vicente, with sessions addressing topics such as the green transition, global commons, post-extractivist ecologies, and public models of AI.

 

“In a moment of planetary urgency, this summit offers a space to imagine, prototype, and debate infrastructures that are regenerative, democratic, and artistically vibrant,” said Markus Reymann, Co-Director of TBA21.

 

This is not a conference—it is a call to action. The Archipelago is a living platform, growing through collaboration, speculation, and artistic invention.

 

Archipelago for Possible Futures

Launched at the 2024 New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels, the Archipelago for Possible Futures is a growing platform connecting Europe’s cultural, scientific, and tech institutions. In response to today’s urgent ecological and digital transitions, it offers a space for collective imagination, experimentation, and collaboration. The initiative links museums, biennales, and design studios with Europe’s cutting-edge public infrastructure—supercomputers, AI labs, quantum research—to shape inclusive and sustainable futures.
 

LOCATION

Ocean Space
Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Castello  5069
30122 Venezia

 

LIVESTREAM

Join us live on YouTube or Ocean-Archive.org.

 

RELATED PROGRAM

TBA21–Academy’s public program during the Venice Biennale of Architecture vernissage week