2025 ISCEAH Webinar Series : The Moroccan Pavilion Experience at the Venice Biennale 2025
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Organised by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architecture (ISCEAH), the webinar “Roots and Horizons: The Moroccan Pavilion Experience – Venice Biennale 2025” presents the minds behind the Moroccan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2025: Khalil Morad El Ghilali and El Mehdi Belyasmine.
The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most prestigious cultural events bringing together nations to showcase creativity on a global stage.
This year, the Moroccan Pavilion celebrates roots and earthen heritage, blending tradition with contemporary vision.
The webinar will be moderated by ISCEAH Emerging Professional Representative Tinhinane Bachir Cherif.
Moroccan Pavilion:
Materiae Palimpsest is a manifesto that aspires to ignite thoughts and interrogations about the potential future(s) of traditional Moroccan know-how. This pavilion could be assimilated to a glossary or an inventory of past construction techniques and local materials, and, through its multi-scalar approach, it aims to inspire future generations to [re]think, [re]use, [re]adapt them.
This installation is presented as an immersive experience that invites visitors on a sensory stroll through the diversity of Moroccan landscapes. Articulated into 72 square columns with a 50x50cm base, whose height varies to evoke the different altitudes of the reliefs of Morocco, it creates a unique architectural topography. These vertical elements guide visitors through a space where each block is made of distinct materials, illustrating the diversity of resources, know-how and local construction cultures. The diversity of textures, colours and techniques of each column transports the visitor on a tactile, visual and sonic journey to discover Moroccan constructive culture. Materiae Palimpsest is a journey through the processes of doing: fragmenting the processes means understanding them better and ultimately being able to reinvent them, to direct them to better future(s).