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The Architecture Lobby presents oral history of labor organizing at the 2025 Venice Biennale
The Architecture Lobby is part of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale with the installation Organizing in the Lobby, which documents their mission as an advocacy group within its place among a worldwide network of new labor activist groups representing the architecture and design industries.
The list of collaborators it features includes Architectural Workers United, Dark Matter University, Future Architects Front, Kate Wagner, the Design As Protest collective, and the Architects! Climate Action Network, and several others.
Installation view, 'Organizing in the Lobby' at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Image courtesy The Architecture LobbyThrough a series of 26 interviews conducted with similar organizations around the world, an oral history of the emerging labor movement within architecture becomes clearer. Their colleagues produced an amazing 16+ hours worth of footage, from which the Lobby says four key conclusions are to be taken. Among them:
Organizing in the wo...