During the interview, we discussed “Resilient Communities,” the title of the Italian Pavilion, exploring a new territory between evolution, diversity, and climate change. The Pavilion created for the 17th Venice Biennale explored the connection between humanity and nature, exploring the evolution of the species between the 1960s and 2000s and the importance of diversity as a key element necessary for adapting and surviving in ever-changing contexts. A powerful message that applies not only to biology, but also to society. “The message we want to convey is that the only way forward is to accept as much diversity as possible, both in society and in the creative constructions that society offers. Diversity, and therefore greater disorder, offers us greater margins for survival.” With the architect, we also explored the meaning of matter, as a point of connection between two worlds. “Matter is the instrument that enables mediation between humanity and nature; it is what allows human settlement on this planet. And that’s where the problems arise. In the sense that matter can be interpreted in two different ways. Until now, it has been interpreted, especially in architectural construction as artifice, as something that arose outside the confines of nature and that today, due to the environmental crisis, must be mitigated, for example, by associating it with nature, injecting it with nature. The second, which derives from evolutionary biology, is that artifice does not actually exist. Therefore, matter must be intrinsically ecological to achieve this mediation.” Read the full interview by downloading Soul Design magazine No. 2 from our Download Area.