MIT and antikythera explore planetary futures at 'the next earth' in venice's palazzo diedo

palazzo diedo presents ‘the next earth’ exhibition in venice

Running from 10 May to 23 November 2025 at Palazzo Diedo, The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology is a collateral event of the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale that brings together two groundbreaking research initiatives — Antikythera’s Planetary Sapience and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet. Presented by the Berggruen Arts & Culture center, the exhibition immerses visitors in the intersecting currents of global computation, climate urgency, and architectural futures.

Overview | all images courtesy of Antikythera, unless stated otherwise

MIT Architecture and Antikythera’s climate visions

Spanning two floors of the newly restored Palazzo Diedo in Venice’s Cannaregio district, The Next Earth situates architecture within the expanding systems of planetary intelligence and ecological transformation. The first part of the show, developed by the Antikythera think tank, investigates Earth as a computational megastructure. Drawing inspiration from the ancient Antikythera mechanism — widely considered the world’s first analogue computer — the installation interweaves rare historical artifacts with speculative cinematic media, artificial intelligence, and planetary simulations. 

On the upper floor, MIT Architecture, home to the oldest professional architecture program in North America, presents forty visionary projects that interrogate climate change through design. From reshaping material supply chains to exploring energy-conscious construction, Un/Worlding the Planet reimagines architecture’s agency in the Anthropocene. Faculty proposals envision resilient infrastructures, alternative ecologies, and methods of building, challenging assumptions about what architecture is and what it could be in a world defined by crisis.

Plasticosismycosis

Environment-Trouble by Mark Jarzombek | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

Variants of Unknowable Significance

GoPro footage from space showing a satellite passing by

Impossible Ontology

Ana Miljacki’s Collective Studio | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

GoPro footage of a high-altitude helium balloon

Tree Form | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

How Old is Now? by Adriana Giorgis | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

work by Les Norford and Eduardo Gascón Alvarez | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

1/11

Amazonia Studio by Angelo Bucci | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

Mark Goulthorpe's Fulcrum House | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

work by John Ochsendorf | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

model by Sheila Kennedy | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

work by Sandy Curth | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

Anne Spirn's West Philadelphia Landscape Project | image courtesy of MIT Architecture

2024 Cognitive infrastructures Studio projects

Xenoplex

Zhou Wen

 

 

project info:

name: The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology
participants: Antikythera Planetary Sapience | @antikythera_xyz, MIT Architecture | @mitarchitecture Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet

location: Palazzo Diedo, Venezia, Italy

event: Collateral Event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale Di Venezia | @labiennale
presented by: Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture | @berggruendiedo
dates: May 10th – November 23rd, 2025