May 10 to November 23, 2025

Palazzo Bembo Location: 

Riva del Carbon, 4793,
30124 Venezia VE, Italy

Giardini della Marinaressa Location:

 Riva dei Sette Martiri,
30122 Venezia VE, Italy

VT Honors College

Dean
Dr. Paul Knox

Curatorial
Dr. Enric Ruiz Geli
Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

Exhibition Design
Prof. Kevin Shaheed Jones
Joba Studio

Virginia Tech Honors 
College Committee
Dr. Lefter Daku, Dr. Paul Heilker, Mary Helm, Christina McIntyre, Prof. Kevin Shaheed Jones, Dr. Enric Ruiz Geli, Sara Vandyke, Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

Curatorial
Assistant Sarah Hammer

Furniture
USM Modular Furniture

Timber Structure
Blumer Lehmann

ETFE Membrane
SEELE

Ephemeral Architecture
Cloud 9

Light Design
iGuzzini

Water Design
Clear Creek Water Works

Landscape Design
Valley Landscaping

Venice Collaborations
Miele del Doge

Glass Design
Cricursa

3D Printing Polymer
Nagami

Projects

  1. Second Nature / PolliNATION

  2. Sustainability & Environmental Justice Frameworks*

  3. Knowledge Unchained*

  4. Community Wealth Building*

  5. Chairs in the Air*

  6. Green New Deal

  7. Cities and Social Change*

  8. Farms of the Future “Cobots”

  9. Culture Sculptures*

  10. Hypnos

  11. Virginia Agrivoltaics

Honors College Faculty

  1. Dr. Enric Ruiz-Geli

  2. Dr. Rachael Budowle

  3. Dr. Michael Kretser, Dr. Sylvester Johnson

  4. Dr. Ralph Hall, Dr. Nikki Lewis, Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

  5. Dr. Natalie Cherbaka, Dr. Michael Kretser

  6. Dr. Joanie Banks-Hunt, Dr. Ralph Hall, Dr. Nikki Lewis, Zack Underwood, Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

  7. Dr. Paul Knox

  8. Dr. Enric Ruiz-Geli

  9. Dr. Rachael Budowle, Prof. Kevin Shaheed Jones, Dr. Enric Ruiz-Geli, Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

  10. Dr. Enric Ruiz-Geli

  11. Dr. Rachael Budowle, Prof. Kevin Shaheed Jones, Dr. Enric Ruiz-Geli, Dr. Anne-Lise Velez

Authorship

  1. Faílenn Aselta, Paige Barnhart, Alec Burnett, Spencer Burton, Aiden Clark, Adler Dills, Axel Granados, Carson Guimond, Meghan Hickey, Matthew Krmpotich, Ivan Leung, Daphne Longmire, Javier Mico-Crump, Julian Miller, Casper Rao, Akea Spicer, Mika Sun, Kate Thepnorarat, Sara Woods

  2. Reagan Armstrong, Morgan Cayea, Charlotte Cullen, Brenna Demko, Chloe DuPont, Will Ferguson, Ashley Lauw, Grace Leszczak, Mason Maykowskyj, Molly Meehan, Lillie Mitchell, Beth Morris, Bella O'Brien, Sofia Quilaqueo, Catherine Resta, Kaylee Rodriguez, Alex Sing, Keara Sosa-Ton, Brenna Stiles, Andrew Teagle, Grace Vaughan Sacks, Cade Young

  3. Madison Abbate, Golder Baah, Lindsey Brantley, Claudia Budzyn, Mary Chadwick, Erin Cox, Peyton Dofflemyer, Alexis Edwards, Evan Flores, Julia Gutgesell, Sumaiya Haque, Rocio Hernandez-Cardona, Juliana Iacono, Jordan Jones, Laura Koeppen, Sarika Maganhalli, Emily Mcleod, Sydney Snearer, Maya Syder, Adriana Wirsch, Javeria Zulfqar

  4. Charlotte Acker, James Albritton, Emma Brown, Jack Carroll, Emma Hall, Banning Jones, Sean Rombach

  5. Helen Cabero, Peyton Dofflemyer, Cameron Hadley, Juliana Iacono, Mikayla Kaczmar, Jacob Machner, Susan Sale, Charles Thomas, Christine Trieu

  6. Natalie Boyle, Trevor Flanary, William Harral, Mariam Hasan, Madeleine Lavoie

  7. Vari Ahmed, Leo Annett, Connor Balint, Caroline Blom, Sarah Boudreau, Erin Coffey, Morgan Doss, Chloe DuPont, Taylor Fitchett, Zachary Frampton, Madison Harmon, Ruhi Parikh, Pranav Paveen Kumar, Grace Leszczak, Kaylee Rodriguez, Leah Tillman, Nathan Tyler, Rachel Unruh, Jazmari Vidro, Michael Walker, Cade Young, Alayna Zebra

  8. Amy Appler, Sejal Gupta, Olivia Leonard, Jimmy Lowe, Carynne Posey, Lauren Reynolds

  9. Juli DesRosiers, Cassidy Graziano, Ben Keenan, Sophia Koffler, Charlie Langan, Taylor Leaman, Sasha Lee, Maya Martinez, Sam Peden, Ryan Schwartz, Lainie Thompson, Shaan Tucker, Lia Wilson, Micah Wise, Alex Sing

  10. Connor Cosimano, Camille D'Amico, Evvy Fite, Sejal Gupta, Nami Jain, Savar Oberoi, Timothy Palamarchuk, Lauren Sartori, Sam Slopey, Michael Webb

  11. AVari Ahmed, Nicole Brown, Juli DesRosiers, Alexander Robert Efird, Sydney Ellis, Natalie Gomez, Cassidy Graziano, Ella Hahn, Arjun Jayakumar, Ben Keenan, Daniel Kim, Sophia Koffler, Charlie Langan, Taylor Leaman, Sasha Lee, Maya Martinez, Sam Peden, Anna Perkins, Sahel Rahman, William Sage, Ryan Schwartz, Rafe Sholler, Alex Sing, Keara Sosa-Ton, Adhitya Srinivasan, Ayisha Surani, Lainie Thompson, Shaan Tucker, Rabihah Waheed , Lia Wilson, Micah Wise

Key Stakeholders

  1. Blumer Lehmann, iGuzzini, Piaggio Fast Forward, Valley Landscaping

  2. The Market of Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech Office of Sustainability, University of Wyoming, University of Michigan, Virginia Tech

  3. Virginia Consensus for Higher Education in Prison, Corporation for Public Interest Technology, Ithaka S+R, VERA Institute of Justice, the Virginia Department of Corrections, Nucleos

  4. Universities at Shady Grove, broader Virginia Tech community

  5. All Wheels Up, Boeing

  6. Broader Virginia Tech community

  7. Virginia Tech Honors College Transdisciplinary Seminars

  8. Gibson Farms, Piaggio Fast Forward, Virginia Tech Catawba Sustainability Center, Virginia Tech School of Animal Sciences

  9. Virginia Tech Honors College SuperStudio

  10. Boeing, iGuzzini, NASA

  11. Broader Virginia Tech community, Virginia Tech Office of Sustainability

Special Thanks

Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, Virginia Tech Advancement, LINK: Center for Advancing Partnerships, David Calhoun, Robert Reuter

Cloud 9

Founder
Enric Ruiz Geli

Head Office
Mila Moskalenko

Executive assistant
Fèlix Ribas Moret

Design team
Miguel Cortes, Adler Dills, Elias Dills, Zihan Gao, Marti Miró, Teo Pijuan, Jordan Reuter, Iago Ruiz Subirós, Laura Salomon, Alyona Savelyeva, Christopher Tucker, Chloe Abi Antoun

Exhibition Design
Kevin Shaheed Jones
Joba Studio

Web Design
Laia Jutglà

Economy
BCN Economistes

Attorney team
Agustí Figueras, Jaume Solé Jordi Romaní Margarita Guerra Raimon Bergós Publication Actar Publishers

Cultural Science Collaborations
Frederic Amat, Zush, Bob Wilson, Josep Perelló, Ignasi Miró, Ray Kass, José Hevia

Collections
MoMA, CCA, FRAC Orléans, Centre Pompidou, Museu de l’Empordà, DHub

Press
Pati Nuñez Agency

Projects

  1. ME WE Foundation, Cultural Center, Figueres

  2. Villa Accretion, Malibu

  3. El Teatre dels Somnis, Caldetes

  4. CaixaForum Valencia*

  5. DaeSang Park, South Korea

  6. H108 Project, Taipei*

  7. elBulli Foundation*

  8. Untitled, Cala Canyelles

  9. The Watermill Center, New York*

  1. Cloud 9, IAAC, Tecnalia, Blumer Lehmann, CartonLab

  2. Cloud 9, León Guallart, Margie Ruddick

  3. Cloud 9, Blumer Lehmann, Seele

  4. Cloud 9, Javier Peña, Ardevols, SORIGUE, Frederic Amat, Simon Taylor, Inma Femenía, Nagami

  5. Cloud 9, TAKK, Jung Man Jung

  6. Cloud 9, Cumella, Wing Wong

  7. Cloud 9, Mireia Luzárraga, Claudia Schneider, Victoria Garriga, Ramón Reyes, Elias Álvarez, Cumella

  8. Cloud 9

  9. Cloud 9, Bob Wilson, Catelectrik

Authorship

Key Stakeholders

  1. Ajuntament de Figueres, COAC

  2. Rob Markus & Edina Somlai

  3. Aigües Termals Caldes, Poble Caldes d'Estrac

  4. Fundació LaCaixa

  5. Daesang Park Changwon

  6. Farglory

  7. Ferran Adrià y Juli Soler

  8. Family K.D. & I. Sh.

  9. Bob Wilson

Special Thanks

Special thanks to: Ellen Braaten, Aaron Betsky, Richard Blythe, Álvaro Borrás, Carles Coronado, Emili Donato, Elisa Duran, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Christian Escribà, Maria Fernanda Leon Gomez, Rafa Garcia Prado, Gabor Norman, Kevin & Robyn Jones, Dr. Paul Knox, Dana Palmada, Esther Planas, Carlo Ratti, Robert Reuter, Alexander Schärer, Nader Tehrani, Jon Thorson, Toni Torrent, Arquia, BuresInnova, Consorci Zona Franca Barcelona, Dos Palillos, ECC, RMIT, SCI-Arch, Shigeru Ban Architects, TAKK, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USM Furniture System and Virginia Tech.

May 10 to November 23, 2025

Palazzo Bembo Location: 

Riva del Carbon, 4793,
30124 Venezia VE, Italy

Giardini della Marinaressa Location:

 Riva dei Sette Martiri,
30122 Venezia VE, Italy