The Flanders Architecture Institute is producer and commissioner of the exhibition in the Belgian pavilion at the seventeenth edition of the Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice. In August 2019, a call was sent to architects, urban planners, designers, researchers, critics and artists to develop an exhibition concept that responds to the theme of memory as a design studio. Out of 57 entries, the jury selected two teams, each further elaborating their exhibition concept. The jury eventually appointed Bovenbouw Architectuur as the winner.