Cities, Inequalities, 24th Triennale Exhibition

Exhibition Design, Triennale Milano, 2025

The exhibition is conceived as an atlas of places, themes, and projects from inhabited lands across the globe, brought together within an imagined geography. It proposes an alternative vision of development—one that moves beyond traditional economic and geopolitical analyses of inequality—and suggests unexpected pathways for growth. In the atmosphere of an abstract, fragmented, and globalized city, thirty-five site-specific installations—created by as many authors from over thirty nationalities—form a collective reflection on the evolving dialectic between wealth and poverty, society and community, ecology and cities. Together, they explore how these tensions manifest today across the territories inhabited by our species.

Curated by: Nina Bassoli

Exhibition design team: (AB)NORMAL
Mattia Inselvini, Davide Masserini, Luigi Savio, Andrea Derni, Federica Montingelli, Cesare Donadeo

Photos by Piercarlo Quecchia, DSL Studio

Participants: 51N4E; Alejandro Aravena, ELEMENTAL; Amos Gitai; Andrés Jaque, Office for Political Innovation; Boonserm Premthada, Bangkok Project Studio; Carlo Ratti, MIT Senseable City Lab; Davide Rapp; Hyperlocal; Interboro; Kazuyo Sejima & Associates; Kimia Zabihyan, Grenfell Next of Kin; Leonardo Galanti, Roberto Carro, Luca Rossomando, Salvatore Porcaro; Laboratorio Roma050; Limbo Accra; Lotus International; Manuel Herz Architects; Marina Otero Verzier; Michael Maltzan Architecture; Michael Obrist, feld72, TU Wien; MOS Architects; Bahrain Pearling Path; OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen; DnA_Design and Architecture and Canadian Centre for Architecture; HouseEurope! (houseeurope.eu), s+ (station.plus, D-ARCH, ETHZ), b+ (bplus.xyz); Rael San Fratello; Rural Urban Framework; Sex & the City; Space Caviar; Studio Anna Heringer; The Building Society; Tosin Oshinowo and Kachi Benson.