Professor Murray Fraser Exhibits at the British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025

The exhibition brings together an international and interdisciplinary team of curators and contributors to examine how architecture can serve as an instrument of repair in the context of colonial legacies, material extraction and environmental precarity.  

The collaborative UK-Kenya curatorial team selected is: 

• Owen Hopkins, Director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University 
• Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University 
• Kabage Karanja, Co-founder and Director of Cave_bureau based in Nairobi, Kenya 
• Stella Mutegi, Co-founder and Director of Cave_bureau based in Nairobi, Kenya. 

The exhibition’s geographical, geological and conceptual focus is the Rift Valley, a geological formation that runs from southeastern Africa through Mozambique, Kenya and Ethiopia, along the Red Sea, through Jordan, Palestine, Israel and Lebanon to southern Turkey.

Prof Murray Fraser, along with colleagues Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari of the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), presents Objects of Repair, an installation developed as part of the team’s long-term research initiative, Atlas of Materials (2010–present).

Objects of Repair explores how salvaged materials and resourceful construction techniques can enable regeneration in contexts of extreme scarcity. The installation reimagines architecture as a practice of healing and transformation, where new forms emerge through processes of fracture, reuse and collective resilience. Through models, drawings and material assemblies, the work proposes alternative architectural futures rooted in climate justice and cultural continuity. 

PART’s contribution exemplifies a critical, place-based approach to architectural design and research – one attentive to geopolitical context, historical responsibility, and sustainable practice. 

For more information about this exhibition, visit https://venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org/.