Abstract
The Architecture Biennale is entrusted with the mission of being a sensor of the future through a collection of possibleactions in the present on a global scale. The 18th Laboratory of the Future Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko was bornwith the intention of being a laboratory place, as the title itself declares, but in reality it denies, by deciding not to dealwith, a decisive issue for the planning of the future: the city. Lee Kuan Yew's quote in Singapore Songlines "Singaporeis a very small place, in a very large, varied and changing world, and unless it is nimble and quick to adapt, it will perishand the people know it", underlines the strength of urban acceleration. The life system of African cities, crazy andincomprehensible, but at the same time contemporary, makes them the ideal case to ask the question: what will thecities of the future be like?
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