The architect Gregory Henriquez’s imagining of multi-income housing near St. Mark’s Square. Rendering: Bartosz Palus
When Gregory Henriquez was growing up in the ’70s in Vancouver’s Oakridge neighbourhood, he was mesmerized by a Toronto-produced Saturday morning cartoon, a space-age take on the classic English tale about an outlaw and his band of Merry Men but set in the year 3000.

“It all begins with Rocket Robin Hood,” Henriquez says about his conceptual proposal called GHETTO: Sanctuary for Sale, an exhibition and graphic novel proposing a visionary scheme for new buildings in Venice, combining housing for refugees with time-share apartments for wealthy tourists. “The GHETTO project is exactly the same idea: a futuristic comic proposing stealing from the cosmic rich to give to the suffering galactic poor.”