Highlighting cultures and languages that have a close affinity with the landscapes of Scotland, A Fragile Correspondence investigates alternative perspectives and new approaches to the challenges of the worldwide climate emergency.

The exhibition initially represented Scotland’s at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, The Laboratory of the Future. The re-staging of the exhibition at the V&A Dundee is the first time the complete exhibition has been shown in the UK. Curated by the Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine, and /other, the project explores how our landscapes are constantly transmitting information if we choose to see and listen. By re-establishing our dialogue with the land, how can we value exchange over extraction and equality over dominance? How can we create a more reciprocal connection with the land that sustains us?

From the forests around Loch Ness, the seashore of the Orkney archipelago and the industrialized remnants of the Ravenscraig steelworks, the project takes us on a journey through three Scottish landscapes; the Highlands, Islands and Lowlands.

The curatorial team was commissioned by the Scotland + Venice Partnership, and the exhibition ran 20 May - 26 November 2023 at Docks Cantieri Cucchini, Venice, Italy