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The Nebelivka Hypothesis ← Forensic Architecture

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This project is premiering at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Lesley Lokko, and will be exhibited at the Arsenale di Venezia between May and November 2023. ‘As they did without monarchy and slavery, so they also got on without the stock exchange, the advertisement, the secret police, and the bomb. Yet I repeat that these were not simple folk, not dulcet shepherds, noble savages, bland utopians. They were not less complex than us. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting . . . Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all.’ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omel

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