Brazil

The complex nature of the issues surrounding the intrinsic relationship between human and non-human infrastructure is addressed in two acts. The first act features narratives from ancestral Brazil, inviting us to reconsider, based on archaeological studies of the Central Amazon, a possible symbiosis between nature and culture. The second act sets out to present design strategies that challenge everyday life in pursuit of social equity and ecological balance, structured along three exhibition axes. The first concerns appropriated infrastructures, inspired by informal occupations and other forms of appropriation of nature. The second explores open infrastructures—strategies based on open structures and minimal elements that enable a multiplicity of spatial and programmatic arrangements. Finally, the third axis examines design operations that evoke new forms of coexistence, drawing on their legacies—desired or not—such as recycling methods and inherited infrastructures.