American philosopher Donna Haraway and Italian architect Italo Rota have been honored with Golden Lion Awards for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Haraway has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement while Rota, who died in 2024, was awarded the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Memorium.Donna Harawayis one of the most influential voices in contemporary thought, straddling the social sciences, anthropology, feminist criticism, and the philosophy of technology, curator Carlo Ratti said announcing the awards. Over the past four decades, she has explored, in a multidisciplinary manner and with a constant capacity for linguistic invention, issues such as the impact of technological evolution on our biological nature and the ways in which the environmental context of theChthuluceneredefines the boundaries between human and nonhuman.Meanwhile, Ratti described Rota as a forerunner with a vision of a world in which the relevance of living entities ...