UnEarth. Second Nature. PolliNATION

A transdisciplinary journey from Virginia Tech to the Venice Biennale,this book showcases collaborative, student-led projects from the VirginiaTech Honors College addressing real-world challenges across time, sectors,and scales.

UnEarthed: Scaling Transdisciplinary from Blacksburg to the Biennale is agroundbreaking chronicle highlighting Virginia Tech's commitment totransdisciplinary education while providing students international exposureand a platform for critical global conversations. It documents the processand content of the 2025 Biennale Architettura exhibit unEarthed /Second Nature / PolliNATION presented by the VT Honors College incollaboration with Cloud 9 and Joba Studio. The volume features projectsfrom VT Honors students, Cloud 9, and collaborators representing diverseviewpoints and values aligned with the event's collective intelligence theme.

This book arrives at a crucial moment to discuss the permeability betweensectors and scales and the need to work across time, regions, and valuesto reestablish balance between humans and nature. Through transdisciplinaryeducation and design, it seeks to build a foundation for ecological andcultural preservation by unEarthing solutions to the planet's mostcritical challenges.