Conversations

The closing weekend of Terra includes an international meeting of the eight institutions that make up the three-year exchange and mobility programme New Temporality, from Lisbon to Tbilisi. under the concept of new temporalities. The audience is invited to participate and share their contribution to this open forum around the topic of new temporalities in such a diverse geographical context.

An open debate builds a shared reflection on architecture’s relevance and responsibility towards society today. 26 November at 15h, in the gardens of MNAC, Warehouse Collective together with Pedro Gadanho will moderate this discussion while Miguel Magalhães will draw it up. A challenge for those who question themselves and want to think about ‘what are we doing here’.

Launch of the Spanish edition of the book Derechos no humanos y otros ensayos acerca de la arquitectura del bosque, published by Bartlebooth. This compilation of essays by the Brazilian architect and researcher Paulo Tavares ranges from the expropriations of indigenous communities in the Amazonian forests to the oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Using the tools of architecture and spatial research, these pages build alternative conceptual fields and practices to protect ecosystems and other entities (human and non-human) from the mass acceleration and extraction of resources.

The author Paulo Tavares and the editors Antonio Giráldez López and Pablo Ibáñez Ferrera (Bartlebooth) will present the book.

40 Days is a book that gathers the forty conversations from home, with architects, educators and curators. These are 40 colloquial conversations, which reveal visions in the context of this period and at the same time, convey images that explain other ways of observing, interpreting, explaining, responding, transforming and dissolving the reality of that present. The book launch consists of a talk with José Mateus, Ana Tostões and Andreia Garcia.

Terra as Home is an introduction to ecofeminism and the production of space divided into three modules: Planet, City and Home. Articulating theory and practice, thought and experimentation, the course is interscalar, intersectional and decolonial. Through international conferences, workshops, as well as project and practice discussion sessions, a feminist vision of architecture emerges focused on care and sustainability of life and the planet.

Terra as Home is an introduction to ecofeminism and the production of space divided into three modules: Planet, City and Home. Articulating theory and practice, thought and experimentation, the course is interscalar, intersectional and decolonial. Through international conferences, workshops, as well as project and practice discussion sessions, a feminist vision of architecture emerges focused on care and sustainability of life and the planet.

This intervention exposes an innovative vision in the field of architecture and urbanism as proposed by the Triennale’s visionary line. It tells the story of the ideas that led to the formulation of the exhibited urban project Cities (Un)made by Segregated Transport Infrastructures. This way, a new model of adaptation and integration of this type of infrastructure in Chilean intermediate cities is presented, designed specifically for the Ribera Norte train in the city of Concepción: a building-viaduct. All this is intended to highlight the action-research process that made it possible to present a counter-proposal to the regional government of Bío Bío facing the Ribera Norte Urban Recovery Plan (PRURN) and which, therefore, could come to fruition in the upcoming decades.

How can a party reveal and transform our bodily practices in the urban public space? With a scenography inspired by the dance floor, performative interventions and festive experiences explore the movement in the city, inviting the audience’s immersive participation, in the context of the exhibition Multiplicity.

This experimental programme brings the body to the fore and exploits the relation of sensory experience and sense making. By inviting investigation of and with the body, the architectural discourse meets somatic practices, physical thinking, and bodily forms of knowing.

Terra as Home is an introduction to ecofeminism and the production of space divided into three modules: Planet, City and Home. Articulating theory and practice, thought and experimentation, the course is interscalar, intersectional and decolonial. Through international conferences, workshops, as well as project and practice discussion sessions, a feminist vision of architecture emerges focused on care and sustainability of life and the planet.

The project addresses the urgency of reimagining the design of work in the climate change context, through the reorientation of infrastructure, information systems, professionals and technologies. How will this effort be coordinated at the micro and macro scale, and what forms of work will be needed? A three-day workshop is followed by an installation.

Global capitalism produces an informal fabric that constitutes a mode of urbanisation that requires the understanding of the populations’ way of life, instead of applying hegemonic models previously conceived and imported from other geographies. In Cape Verde, Iniciativa Outros Bairros have started the regeneration of Alto de Bomba, based on the daily life of the local population, through the construction and activation of public space, starting with listening to reflect on alternatives to public policies that acknowledge the informal as a form of urbanisation.

How is matter intentional? This question concerns many disciplines, yet architecture is particularly well positioned to answer where all questions about form meet, whether organic, built, or information. Terramorphosis brings together architects, artists, biologists, mathematicians, mediologists and philosophers in this effort to question the intentionality of matter through form.

City and Feminisms, urban space politics and poetics question the patriarchal and productivist way of conceptualising social space in contemporary cities in order to imagine the city from an intersectional gender perspective. This cycle refocuses the debate around architecture from fundamental contributions that help collectively reflect on the potentiality of the city to become a common space, enhancing greater spatial, social and ecological justice.

We have brought together different voices with a fundamental contribution to the debate around Terra. Personalities ranging from architecture to anthropology or social activism make up a mosaic of perspectives on why, how and for whom.