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Putting Africa and its diaspora at the center of the Venice Architecture Biennale, as chief curator Lesley Lokko has done for the 2023 edition, is part of that process of reexamination, the first time in its four-decade existence that this prestigious architecture event has focused on the world's second-largest continent and the descendants of its displaced peoples. The first, by academic duo Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti as DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research), is an Arsenale display intended to "profane the rural settlement of Borgo Rizza" near Syracuse, a 1940 government project to "reclaim, modernize, and repopulate Sicily," which "the Fascist regime considered backward, underdeveloped, and 'empty.'" A traveling installation, DAAR's piece consists of a video presentation accompanied by a full-scale reproduction of Borgo Rizza's main building facade fragmented into "15 multipurpose modules" that, in this case, serve as seating. "First-world nations have colonized the atmosphere with their greenhouse-gas emissions," reads the label; "The 'great endeavor' to capture all this carbon will involve the largest engineering project in human history." On a far more upbeat note, Arinjoy Sen's beautiful Bengali Song caught many an eye: a large textile triptych embroidered by women from the SHE Kantha collective in India, it shows an ecological building narrative based on Marina Tabassum Architects' Khudi Bari ("little house"), a quickly assembled (and disassembled) wood house that can be mounted on stilts to withstand annual flooding.