Habacus Supports The Tide at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: an installation merging art, artificial intelligence, and the voices of new generations

From May 10 to November 23, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale features The Tide, an independent project conceived by Marco Bressan and Mat Travizano. Habacus has chosen to support this initiative for its significant social and cultural impact. The Tide is an immersive and interactive installation that connects artificial intelligence, art, and youth participation, creating a new form of collective dialogue.

The initiative is part of the 2025 edition of the Venice Biennale, titled “Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.” This global laboratory explores the future of intelligence in all its forms.

An AI ecosystem listening to new generations

The Tide arises from an urgent question: In a world where today’s decisions shape the future, how can we give voice to those who will live with the consequences? The project, conceived by Marco Bressan, an expert in AI and social innovation, and Mat Travizano, an artist and technologist, uses artificial intelligence to collect and analyze millions of digital conversations among young people worldwide.

Through platforms like Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, WhatsApp, and X, The Tide captures emotions, fears, and hopes, presenting them as a collective and intergenerational dialogue.

“We live in a world where decisions made today will shape future generations… Although young people care deeply, their voices are somehow ignored… One of the most powerful impacts of artificial intelligence will be to mediate a new ‘many-to-one’ dialogue. I see The Tide as an early exploration of what that might look like.”
— Marco Bressan

“We trained an AI system to capture the emotional landscape that young people traverse as they imagine the future of their cities and the planet. A continuous flow of digital conversations fuels a collective intelligence capable of generating a new intergenerational dialogue: multifaceted, data-driven, and profoundly human.”
— Mat Travizano

The tide stations: an immersive experience at the Venice Biennale

The installation is physically hosted at the Giardini and the Arsenale, the two symbolic venues of the Venice Biennale. Here, visitors engage directly with the platform through Tide Stations inspired by ocean buoys: interactive structures that reproduce vocal fragments of this global emotional landscape, generated and translated in real-time by AI.

The project will culminate on June 20, 2025, during the summer solstice, with a global event marked by time zones: a planetary sound map spanning 24 hours of voices, without borders or flags.

Why Habacus supports The Tide

Aligned with its mission to support new generations from education to employment, Habacus has chosen to back The Tide as a project that leverages technology to foster listening.

“The future isn’t built solely with data but with the ability to listen. The Tide is powerful because it starts right here: with the authentic listening of young people and the courage to give concrete form to their visions. At Habacus, we believe that to offer solutions, we must first understand the needs. That’s why we’ve chosen to support this project that gives voice to a generation that doesn’t ask for permission to imagine.”
— Paolo Cuniberti, CEO of Habacus

The Tide at the Venice Biennale 2025: what to see and where to find it

The installations are open to visitors from May 10 to November 23, 2025, as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale, at two of its most iconic venues: the Giardini and the Arsenale. The installations are located outdoors, immersed in the urban and natural context of the city, and take the form of Tide Stations, structures inspired by ocean buoys. These interactive devices transmit in real-time the synthesized voices of young people from around the world.