Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive
2126 Campo de la Tana Venezia
May 10 - November 23, 2025
Unfolding as an official collateral event of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive casts a spotlight on the unsung architecture of Hong Kong—its silent, often-overlooked infrastructure that quietly shapes daily life. Curated by Fai Au, Ying Zhou, and Sunnie SY Lau, the exhibition reframes elements like composite buildings, public housing estates, and community hubs not as relics of the past, but as bearers of cultural memory and blueprints for the future
Through a dynamic interplay of archival drawings, architectural models, urban photography, and a striking bamboo installation handcrafted by Hong Kong artisans, the show transforms spaces within Venice’s historic Arsenale into a living dialogue between two port cities. It asks: what does it mean to preserve heritage in a city constantly in flux? And can tomorrow’s legacy be found in today’s endangered structures?
Projecting Future Heritage offers more than an exhibition—it’s an act of architectural storytelling, mapping the intersections of urban resilience, collective memory, and the urgent realities of climate change. In these spaces, the future is archived—not as a prediction, but as a proposition.