In the southern part of the Arsenale, the long Corderie building has been a central feature of the Venice Biennale since 1980. This unique structure once housed the production of ropes and cables for boats, a past still visible in its imposing roof and large masonry columns. This history makes it a fitting place to reflect on the capacity of buildings to hold memories of the uses and lives they have contained. Therefore, the proposal for the 2023 edition focused on how to interpret these memories in order to envision a future that incorporates them. To open up the discussion around these themes, projects from the office were selected that worked with abandoned buildings, yet preserved civic values ​​and maintained different layers of their past... [+]