This film and images exhibited at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale asks how Situationist's Dérive of the 1960s, can be employed to understand the experiences of disabled people in urbanism. This film advances a digital ethnography of non-conforming and intersectional bodies. Employing their smartphones, dis-ordinary individuals document their journeys in the city, thus asserting their diversity, equity and inclusivity in urban space—words which in some arenas are now censored.<p></p>
NTRO Output Type
- Recorded or Rendered Work
NTRO Output Category
- Recorded or Rendered Work : Audio / visual recording
Place
Venice, ItalyVenue
Venice, Architecture Bienalle 2025NTRO Publisher
Venice, Architecture Bienalle 2025Start Date
2025-05-10End Date
2025-11-23Medium
Text, Photographic Images and Audio Visual Film.Research Statement
The method of this research is to employing mobile phones and GoPro cameras, enabling disabled individuals will document a personal Dérive through different urban atmospheres. These collected and then edited journeys intentionally convey a lo-fi aesthetic—Tarkovsky's film Moloch springs to mind as a visual aesthetic. The film hopes architects will consider the atmospheres of disabled people subjected to architecture and urbanism that portrays them as invisible.
A new concept of collective intelligence will is generated as a collection of and film images. This new intelligence, based on informal experiences, questions the autonomous regimes of architects. The project indicates the potential of collective intelligence when architects adopt the diverse perspectives of disabled people.
Reuniting disability spaces with architectural theory, the film counters prevailing architectural imaginaries. In the architectural imagination, disabled people are too often invisible. The tragedy is that we never see these disabled lives in those parametric renders—this version of the Situationist's Dérive points to a new spatiality of diversity, equity and inclusion.
The result is a collected spectrum of journeys of disabled lived experience. This lived experience exists on a spectrum somewhere between ambient violence and urban playfulness.Size or Duration of Work
Exhibition Images and Screened Video of 7:09 minutes. May 10 to November 23 2025Affiliation
Peter Raisbeck, University of Melbourne
