Description
Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and TransdisciplinarityOrganised and moderated by S. Kousoulas and A. Radman, 09 October 2025
GENS Public Program / Speakers Corner, Venice Biennale 2025
While stupidity notoriously eludes descriptive analysis, it has been a major concern for thinkers and philosophers for millennia. The Stoics formulated sapientia (intelligence) as an ongoing struggle against stultitia (stupidity). However, stupidity is not the opposite of intelligence, and it is not reducible to ignorance. In this event stupidity is understood as the inability to formulate a problem. Consequently, this event will explore architectural technicities that overcome poorly defined problems and reinvigorate critical thinking, requiring a transdisciplinarity that breaks with the anti-intellectualist tradition of specialisation, professionalisation, and knowledge fragmentation. Rather than focusing on the essentialist question of what architectural intelligence is, this event is therefore interested in the pragmatics of how it occurs, who institutes it, and through which technicities it is archived and disseminated. The event will be moderated by S. Kousoulas and A. Radman, engaging in a discussion with academics and practitioners whose work focuses on architectural intelligence.
| Period | 9 Oct 2025 |
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| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Venice, ItalyShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |