When the Venice Biennale's 19th International Architecture Exhibition launches on May 10, its guiding theme will be applying nimble, flexible intelligence to a demanding world ' an ongoing focus of its curator, MIT faculty member Carlo Ratti. The Biennale is the world's most renowned exhibition of its kind, an international event whose subject matter shifts over time, with a new curator providing new focus every two years. This year, the Biennale's formal theme is 'Intelligens,' the Latin word behind 'intelligence,' in English, and 'intelligenza,' in Italian ' a word that evokes both the exhibition's international scope and the many ways humans learn, adapt, and create. 'Our title is 'Intelligens. Natural, artificial, collective,'' notes Ratti, who is a professor of the practice of urban technologies and planning in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. 'One key point is how we can go beyond what people normally think about intelligence, whether in people or AI. In the built...
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