2018
USA and Italy
4min 52seconds

Tasked with addressing the scale of the CITIZEN at the Venice Architecture Biennale’s US Pavilion, Amanda Williams, Andres Hernandez, and Shani Crowe explore the assumption that all people are able to actualize the rights, benefits, and responsibilities of citizenship within the built environment.

This short film is part of an ongoing collaboration with the artists and features their collaborative process of design, building the intervention, and a live performance in Venice. Sharing the title Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) the film speculates upon new spatial strategies that support the most precarious of populations.

Evoking clandestine routes charted and navigated by African Americans seeking both temporary escape and permanent freedom from the institution of slavery, Spirit of Space believes this intervention strategically shifts orientation in its steady movement toward, and its shaping of, thrival spaces.