Forensic Architecture and David Wengrow present The Nebelivka Hypothesis, a critical engagement with new modes of investigation that challenge our most basic understandings of urban origins and possibilities.

Buried deep below the rich black soils of central Ukraine, archaeologists charted human settlements as large and ancient as the first Mesopotamian cities, yet conceived on radically different principles. One such place is Nebelivka. Its 6,000-year-old remains offer a lens through which to interrogate core assumptions about urban space, power, and ecology. The laboratory of future cities takes form in dialogue with the laboratory of the human past.

The Nebelivka Hypothesis will premiere at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia, The Laboratory of the Future, curated by Lesley Lokko.