May 21, 2021, 2:04 pm
Some of the wishes written by people from across Scotland which form part of the exhibition (Jane Barlow/PA)
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Scots’ wishes for how their neighbourhoods could look in the future are taking centre stage at a new design exhibition.
Since the beginning of last year, 30 people from across the country have worked with designers and architects to visualise the best changes for their communities in a post-pandemic world.
In the time it has taken to prepare for the Venice Biennale, violence in the Middle East has overtaken a Palestinian family farm in Gaza featured in one of the exhibits
Venice, Italy
In the time it has taken to prepare for the Venice Biennale, the influence annual art festival held in Italy, violence in the Middle East has given real-time urgency to the question posed by the Biennale curator: “How will we live together?”
The 17th International Architecture Exhibition opens Saturday after a one-year pandemic delay, during which time architecture has emerged as one of the key disciplines in the global coronavirus response.
One exhibit “Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip,” looks at how Israeli control of the border impacts the Qudaih family farm in the Gaza village of Khuza’a. It recounts, for example, that 20 of the Qudaih family’s olive trees were bulldozed to create a buffer zone, and a greenhouse necessary to grow tomatoes has been repeatedly destroyed.