Exhibitions, talks, workshops and exploratory walks connect venues from Campo Calabro to the Sicilian shore. International strands extend to Agadir and Paris. The programme runs through December 13 and treats the sea as shared space rather than simply a dividing line.
The event is promoted by Fondazione Le Città del Futuro and directed by architect Alfonso Femia. The 2026 edition also involves landscape architect and Roma Tre University professor Annalisa Metta, and Moroccan architect-anthropologist Salima Naji.
Rather than concentrating on individual buildings, the Biennale examines relationships among geography, territory and communities. Femia describes cities as complex, vulnerable systems shaped by human and landscape change. Metta points to rapid cycles of expansion and contraction that can leave cities and regions out of step.
Organisers say they want to shift attention from central Europe towards the South. Art, architecture, philosophy, design and photography are used to ask how Calabria and Sicily can share memory and recognise one another without erasing distinct identities. Source: Il Sole 24 Ore.