Spontaneous Interventions at Biennale Architectura

The full list of participants and projects featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is available now (see below).

This year's pavilion, organized by the Institute for Urban Design and devoted to the theme "Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good," features 124 urban interventions initiated by architects, designers, planners, artists and everyday citizens in U.S. cities that bring positive change to the public realm.

From parklets to community farms, guerrilla bike lanes to urban repair squads, outdoor living rooms to pop-up markets, sharing networks and temporary architecture, the installation highlights viable citizen-led alternatives to traditional top-down urban revitalization tactics.

The Westin Europa & Regina in Venice has become a generous sponsor of the U.S. Pavilion at the event. For more information on "Spontaneous Interventions" visit www.spontaneousinterventions.org or follow on Twitter, @S_Interventions.

"Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good" Participants

78th Street Play Street (Queens, NY), Jackson Heights Green Alliance
596 Acres (Brooklyn, NY)
1415 (St. Louis, Missouri), Rebuild Foundation
Air Quality Egg (International), Sensemakers
Aircasting (Online), HabitatMap
Amphibious Architecture (New York Harbor), David Benjamin and Natalie Jeremijenko
Aquaponics Container System (Austin, Texas), Austin Urban Solutions & Rosner Studio
Art in Odd Places (Manhattan, New York), Ed Woodham
ARTfarm (Bronx, New York), AFHny Studio
Astoria Scum River Bridge (Queens, New York), Jason Eppink and Posterchild
Bartering and Sharing Networks (Online), Various
Bat Cloud (Buffalo, New York), Ants of the Prairie
Bench Press (Brooklyn and Queens, New York), BroLab
Better Block (Dallas, Texas, and elsewhere), Team Better Block
BK Farmyards (Brooklyn, New York)
Brooklyn Night Bazaar (Brooklyn, New York)
Bubbleware (Austin, Texas, and elsewhere), Rebar
Building Projections (International), Various
Bunchy Carter Park (Los Angeles), LA Department of DIY
By the City / For the City (New York City), Institute for Urban Design
Campito (Denver, Colorado), M12
Cart Coop (New Orleans), Crookedworks
chainlinkGREEN (Philadelphia), International Design Clinic
Chair-bombing (Brooklyn, New York), DoTank
City Farm (Chicago), Resource Center
City Sensing: Signal Space (New York City and anywhere), Normal Projects
Come Out and Play Festival (New York City and San Francisco), Come Out and Play
Community Living Room Project (Northern and Southern California), Shared Spaces Landscape Architecture & ‘Hood Builders
Crown Heights Participatory Urbanism (Brooklyn, New York), Manuel Ávila
Cut. Join. Play. (Chicago), MAS Studio
Day Labor Station (National), Public Architecture
Depave (Portland, Oregon)
Dérive App (International), Eduardo Cachucho
Detroit, Demolition, Disneyland (Detroit, Michigan), Object Orange
Eco-Playground (New Orleans), Make It Right Foundation
Edible Estates (International), Fritz Haeg
Edible Schoolyard New York City (Brooklyn, New York), WORKac
Edible Wall (Bronx, New York), Green Bronx Machine
Faubourg St. Roch Project (New Orleans), Lang Architecture
Field Guide to Phytoremediation (Bronx, New York, and anywhere), youarethecity
For Squat / Reuben Kincaid Realty (Chicago and anywhere), Public Media Institute
Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market (Chicago), Architecture for Humanity Chicago
Ghost Bikes (International), Various
GOOD Ideas for Cities (National), GOOD
Grassroots Mapping (National), Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
Greenaid Seedbomb Vending Machine (Los Angeles and elsewhere), COMMONstudio
Guerrilla Bike Lanes (International), Anonymous
Guerrilla Drive-Ins (National), Various
Guerrilla Gardens (International), Various
Guerrilla Grafters (San Francisco)
Harvest Dome (Bronx and Manhattan, New York), SLO Architecture
Hypothetical Development Organization (New Orleans), Rob Walker and Ellen Susan
I Wish This Was (New Orleans and anywhere), Candy Chang/Civic Center
ICE-POPS (Online)
Iluminacción (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Urbano Activo
Imagination Playground (International), Rockwell Group
Insert ____ Here (New York City), Eve Mosher
Intersection Repair (Portland, Oregon, and elsewhere), City Repair
Islands of LA (Los Angeles), Ari Kletzky
Kingshighway Skatepark (St. Louis, Missouri), Kingshighway Vigilante Transitions
KISS Popup Chapel (Manhattan, New York), Z-A Studio
LA Green Grounds (Los Angeles), LA Green Grounds
Legal Waiting Zone (Queens, New York), Ghana ThinkTank
LentSpace (Manhattan, New York), Interboro Partners
LightLane (Boston), Evan Gant and Alex Tee
Linden Living Alley (San Francisco), Dave Winslow and Loring Sagan
Local Code: Real Estates (San Francisco and elsewhere), Nicholas de Monchaux
Local Previews (Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York), Freecell
Making Policy Public (New York City), Center for Urban Pedagogy
Marcus Prize Pavilion (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Barkow Leibinger Architects and Kyle Talbott
Mobile Dumpster Pools (New York City), Macro Sea
Museum of the Phantom City (New York City), Cheng+Snyder
MyBlockNYC (New York City)
Neighborland (New Orleans and elsewhere)
New Public Sites (Baltimore, Maryland, and elsewhere), Graham Coreil-Allen
New York Street Advertising Takeover (New York City), Public Ad Campaign
No Longer Empty (New York City)
Occupy Wall Street (International), Various (including OWS Architecture Working Group, OWS Screenprinters’ Guild, et al.)
OpenPlans (Online)
Paintings for Satellites (New York City), Molly Dilworth Studio
Parking Plot (St. Louis, Missouri), Free Agents Imbert and Meijerink
Parklets (San Francisco and elsewhere), Various
Parkman Triangle Park (Los Angeles), Urban Operations
Parkmobiles (San Francisco), CMG Landscape Architecture
Participation Park (Baltimore, Maryland), Baltimore Development Cooperative
People Make Parks (New York City), Hester Street Collaborative & Partnerships for Parks
Periscope Project (San Diego, California), ENS_Projects
Phone Booth Book Share (New York City), Department of Urban Betterment
PHS Pops-Up Garden (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Pixelator (New York City and anywhere), Jason Eppink
Place It! (National), James Rojas
Place Pulse (Online), MIT Media Lab
Pop Up City (Cleveland, Ohio), Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative
Pop Up Lunch (New York City), Alexandra Pulver
Pop-Up Art Loop (Chicago), Chicago Loop Alliance
Popularise (Washington, DC)
popuphood (Oakland, California)
Post Furniture (Los Angeles and Oakland, California), Ken Mori and Jenny Liang
Power Cart (New York City), Mouna Andraos
Power House (Detroit, Michigan), Design 99
proxy (San Francisco), envelope A+D
QR Codes for Digital Nomads (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and anywhere), Free Art and Technology Laboratory (F.A.T. Lab)
Queens Boulevard Intervention (Queens, New York), Planning Corps
re:NEWS (San Francisco), Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
Red Swing Project (Austin, Texas, and anywhere)
San Francisco Garden Registry (San Francisco), Futurefarmers
SeeClickFix (New Haven, Connecticut, and elsewhere)
Serendipitor (Online), Mark Shepard
Skipping Only Zones (New York City), Design That Moves You
Soil Kitchen (Philadelphia), Futurefarmers
Spatial ConTXTs (Syracuse, New York), French 2Design
Stairway Stories (New York City), Design That Moves You
Streetfilms (Online)
Syracuse Downtown (Syracuse, New York), Syracuse University School of Architecture
Tactical Urbanism Handbooks (Brooklyn, New York, and anywhere), Street Plans Collaborative
Ten New Historical Markers (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Howling Mob Society
TreeKIT (New York City)
Trees, Cabs and Crime in San Francisco (San Francisco), Stamen
The Uni (New York City and elsewhere), The Uni Project & Höweler + Yoon Architecture
Version Festival 12 (Chicago), Public Media Institute
Walk Raleigh (Raleigh, North Carolina), CityFabric
War Gastronomy: Recipes of Relocation (San Francisco), SanFranStudios
#whOWNSpace (New York City), DSGN AGNC
Yarnbombing (International), Various