Lebanon

The Land Remembers presents a fictional ministry—The Ministry of Land Intelligens—dedicated to healing the land from ecocide and to building a dynamic archive of this intentional destruction. It asserts that land comes before architecture, and that architects must take on a more active role in our engagement with the natural environment. The pavilion treats the crisis of ecocide with urgency. It is not merely an exhibition, but a call to action: a space for activism that confronts visitors with the stark reality of the intentional devastation of the natural environment. The Land Remembers invites them to participate in shaping an alternative future where non-humans and humans both can thrive. Land that has sustained life for millennia is now poisoned—its soil and water contaminated by heavy metals, incendiary weapons, debris, and the deliberate, targeted destruction of agricultural fields and groves. These acts of ecocide have destroyed entire communities, displacing them and rendering once-thriving landscapes into barren, uninhabitable wastelands. The systematic erasure of Lebanon’s ecology is not only an environmental crisis—it is an existential issue.