Elizabeth Christoforetti Presents “Continuously Becoming Home: Design at the Intersection of Climate Crisis and AI” at Time Space Existence

CGBC Faculty and Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Presents “Continuously-Becoming Home: Design at the Intersection of Climate Crisis and AI” at the biannual architecture exhibition Time Space Existence.

Elizabeth Christoforetti, CGBC Faculty and Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has curated and designed an exhibit for Time Space Existence, the biennial architecture exhibition hosted by the European Cultural Center that runs concurrently with the 2025 La Biennale di Architettura in Venice, Italy. From May to November, Time Space Existence 2025: Repair, Regenerate, Reuse will bring together architects, urban planners, designers, and multidisciplinary practitioners to showcase works that offer innovative responses to urgent environmental, social, and cultural challenges.

In a world increasingly shaped by the internet, connected devices, and artificial intelligence, Christoforetti’s installation Continuously-Becoming Home: Design at the Intersection of Climate Crisis and AI speculates on the ways in which the technological capacity that created our environmental crisis may be re-imagined as a pathway toward solving it. The installation directly builds upon the Center for Green Buildings and Cities Fall 2023 Gund Hall exhibition entitled Our Artificial Nature and the work of HouseZero®—The CGBC’s headquarters and first-of-its-kind living-laboratory that enables experimentation with AI, integrated systems, and sensor networks to optimize building control, environmental connectivity, and occupant well-being.

Through the lens of eight domestic vignettes and a live display of HouseZero’s unique infrastructure—or “brain”— Continuously-Becoming Home poses essential questions for design at the intersection of climate crisis and AI: What does it mean to live together through the relationships of care and maintenance between humans, data, and environmental systems? How can design meaningfully merge the technological optimization necessary to efficiently reduce energy use with the meaningful inefficiencies that are essential to what it is to be human?

Featured as part of the exhibition, HouseZero serves as an important reference point for Christoforett’s installation as it seeks to explore the complexities and positive environmental impact of entangled systems of human life, data, and the biological world.

Located within Palazzo Mora, Continuously-Becoming Home calls attention to the urgent role of architecture and design in addressing environmental change and re-imagining what it means to be human in the 21st century.

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