DEBATE FORUM

Throughout the exhibition period of the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, a rich program of lectures, panels, and debates will take place at the Debate Forum. Here, you will find a list of this complete program, with links to registration, where applicable. Stay tuned! some activities require advance registration, subject to capacity.

We're counting on you to discuss the future of cities in the face of climate change! The event will take place in the Oca auditorium (where the exhibition is located) and is free. Join us!

Attention: 

The opening of FórumSP 25, on October 6th, will be at IABsp

The schedule may be updated, stay tuned for changes.

 

SCHEDULE

 19/09 – Friday

OPENING OF THE DEBATE FORUM: CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

1:30 PM to 5:00 PM – China architecture exhibition day

Debate between China and Brazil with Brazilian and Chinese authorities and architects

6pm to 8pm – Sponge Cities

Opening Conference with Kongjian Yu (Peking University – China)

 

20/09 – Saturday

TRANSFORMING CITIES WITH SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

 10am to 12pm – Breakfast with curators and exhibitors

2pm to 3pm – Reuse: European experiences

Debate with Martino Pedrozzi (USI/Mendrisio – Switzerland) and Fernando Rodrigues (Porto, Portugal)

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM – Niterói Experiences: Orla Piratininga Park – Nature-Based Solutions, and Caminho Niemeyer

Debate with Dionê Marinho Castro and Carlos Krykhtine (Niterói City Hall)

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM – Urban Mobility: Planning and Participation

Debate with Thomaz Richez, Luiz Cortez (Metro), Sérgio Avelleda (Insper)

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – Circulating Together on a Metropolis Scale: The Paris Experience

Debate with Pierre Emmanuel Becherand, Madeleine Houbart, Marc Barani (Winners of the Grand Paris Express Prize) 

 

21/09 – Sunday

TRANSFORMING CITIES WITH SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY

12:00 p.m. – Launch of The green dip. Covering the city with a forest

Audiovisual with Javier Arpa Fernández (Delft)

3pm to 5pm – Spatial planning, climate challenges and decent housing: Architecture and Urbanism on the COP30 agenda

Round table to discuss documents produced

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Waters: a dialogue between traditions – India, Holland and France

Panel with Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg (Ooze – Netherlands/India), Kareena Kochery and Samidha Patil (urbz – India), Duplantier Martin (France)

 

23/09 – Tuesday 

10am to 1pm – Pantanal Action – Table 1 

Readings and mapping of a critical territory. A history of socio-environmental transformations and projects developed in the area. A mapping of flooding, landfilling, occupations, and conflicting urbanization policies.

2pm to 5pm – Pantanal Action – Table 2

Innovative drainage and urbanization solutions / Guides and methodologies developed by public administration. New public policy parameters.

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Urban green infrastructure and technologies

 Case studies with Eduardo Cavalieri (Vice Mayor of Rio de Janeiro), Pedro Fernandes (SPUrbanismo), and the Director of Oterprem – Draining Floors

 

24/09 – Wednesday

SP MEETING

10:00 AM to 10:30 AM – Opening

10:30 am to 11:30 am – Real-World Laboratory for Water Security in the Pitimbu River Basin: Participatory Science and Adaptive Governance 

Researchers: Karinne Deusdará, Jonathan Mota, Coca and Vanessa, Joana Darc de Medeiros, Adelena Maia, Sandra Saad, Andreia Lema, Heber, Wagna Moura

11:30 am to 12:30 pm – Fog collectors for vegetation irrigation systems: possibility of sustainable climate adaptation to water scarcity in Portada de Manchay, Peru?

Researchers: Loyde Vieira De Abreu Harbich, Mariana Zuliani Theodoro de Lima, Sasquia Hizuru Obata, Anny Cardeli, Ariella Cristine Cabezas Piffer, Pearl Felipette Brocaneli, Andre Luiz Nery Figueiredo, Jose Alonso Pajuelo Bravo, Thiago Oliveira Leite, Taizy de Jesus Santos, Luan Fagner de Almeida Esteves, Julia Tiemi Martins Goia

2pm to 3pm – EMR Sagi, RN

Researchers: Venerando Eustáquio Amaro, Afonso Celso Vanoni De Castro, Ana Marcelino 

3pm to 4pm – Climate change and experiences and knowledge in local space: a Real World Experiment in Ponta Negra, Natal/RN

Researchers: Sarah de Andrade e Andrade, Ruth Maria da Costa Ataíde, Venerando Amaro Eustáquio, Zoraide Sousa Pessoa

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM – Climate change and experiences and knowledge in local space: a Real World Experiment in Ponta Negra, Natal/RN

Researchers: Judith, Jean, Thallysson, Ricardo, Roney

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – SP Meeting – INCT Klimapolis Conference: Climate Science, Actor-Network Theory and Real-World Laboratories

Lectures and debate with Tércio Ambrizzi (USP), Stelio Marras (USP) and mediation by Maria de Fátima Andrade (Klimapolis)

 

25/09 – Thursday

SP MEETING

10:30 am to 12 pm – How can science support the sustainable reuse of conversion areas in metropolises?

Author: Martin Gegner and Jonas Fahlbusch

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm – Climate monitoring in Latin American investigations

Author: Silvia Maciel Savio Chataignier

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Between policies and practices: popular territories facing the climate emergency

Author: Maria Isabel Imbrunito and Patrícia Rodrigues Samora

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Nature-based solutions for public spaces: reinventing the city through the water cycle

Authorship: Pierre-André Martin, Amanda Saboya and Caroline Fernandes

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – SP Meeting Conferences – Promoting the circular economy through reuse

Lectures and debate with Maarten Gielen (Halfwerk – Belgium), Jörg Schröder (Leibniz University Hannover – Germany) and mediation by Pedro Alban

 

26/09 – Friday

SP MEETING

10:30 am to 12 pm – Tree planting in climate mitigation and adaptation in cities: new paradigms

Author: Rubens do Amaral

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm – Contemporary Architecture and Climate Emergency: Sustainable Paths between Public and Private

Author: Renata Gilio – KAAN Architecten

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Climate federalism and sustainable local urban development

Authorship: Alexandre Fontenelle-Weber and Fernando Túlio Salva Rocha Franco

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Heritage at risk: ancestral cosmologies and climate action

Authorship: Bruno Amaral de Andrade, Sandoval dos Santos Amparo and Luana Cristina da Silva Campos

Sesc Architecture Competition Awards Ceremony

6:00 p.m. – Announcement of the results of the Sesc Architecture Competition – Presidente Prudente Thermas Unit

 

September 27th – Saturday 

SP MEETING

10:30 am to 12 pm – Urbanized coastal regions: amphibious and poikilothermic territory

Authorship: Fabrício Ribeiro dos Santos Godoi

12:00 pm to 1:30 pm – Cities in climate crisis: planning and resilience in vulnerable territories

Authorship: Angélica Benatti Alvim and Ruth Maria da Costa Athaíde

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Beyond architecture: the role of the architect in the climate crisis

Authorship: George Alexandre Ferreira Dantas and Francisco Ricardo Avelino Dantas Filho

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM – Community risk reduction plans in times of climate crisis

Authorship: Fernanda Accioly Moreira, Francisco de Assis Comaru, Leonardo Ferreira da Silva and Felipe Rakauskas

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – SP Meeting Conference on Climate Science and Cities Research 

Lectures and debate with Edmilson Dias de Freitas (USP), Maria de Fátima Andrade (USP) and Renato Anelli (curator of the 14th BIAsp)

 

28/09 – Sunday

SP MEETING

1:00 PM to 2:30 PM – Rethinking office buildings: adaptive reuse as urban strategies

Author: Elena Guidetti and Caterina Barioglio

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Shared mobility – Urban planning nexus for accelerating urban mobility system

Author: Aksel Ersoy and Diego Hernando Florez Ayala

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM – The urban microclimate: a thermal construction of socio-environmental imprints (Reforesing cities)

Author: Mariami Maghlakelidze

6pm to 9pm – SP Meeting Conference – Climate Urbanism

With architect Pedro Henrique de Christo (Harvard Brazil Office) and architect Carlos Leite (FAU-Mackenzie)

 

1/10 – Wednesday

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Means of production

Conference with Jane Hall and guest speakers Felipe Carnevalli and Mariana Meneghetti. Opening remarks by Rafael Ferraz (British Council)  

 

2/10 – Thursday

URBAN FORESTS

10am to 1:30pm – Amerindian Farms in Oca. Amazonia from the Margins to the Extremes: Labya-Yala of FAU-USP

Labya-Yala. Laboratory of Decolonial Studies at FAU-USP.

3:00 PM to 4:30 PM – Trees and Thermal Justice 

Lecture and debate with Lucas Gobatti (MIT and ETH Zürich), Gabriela Alves (Perifa Sustentável) and Rodrigo F. Iacovini (Pólis Institute)

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Preserving Biodiversity in the City

Panel with Adriana Sandre, Ricardo Cardim. Guest speaker: Marina Bragante, and mediation by Leandro Fontana (IABsp).

 

3/10 – Friday

REUSE FOR HOUSING AND CULTURE

10am to 11:30am – Living First: FICA and Father Júlio Lancellotti project for homeless people in São Paulo

Lecture and debate with Simone Gatti and Aline Araújo (FICA Fund), Father Júlio Lancellotti and Renata Quintella (Our Journey Institute)

11:30 am to 1 pm – Public housing policies for the homeless population 

Lecture and debate with the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Human Rights, Caixa Econômica Federal and FICA.

2pm to 5pm – Innovating the Regularization of Affordable Housing

Panel with Fernando da Mata Pimentel (CEO of Emgea), Antônio César and José Carlos Alves (Director of Operations of Emgea) and guests.

6pm to 8pm – Cultural facilities in adapted historic buildings

Lecture and debate with Li Hu (Open Architecture) and mediation by Carlos Eduardo Comas

 

4/10 – Saturday

10am to 11am – Performance-lecture Geography, Memory and Landscape

With Gian Spina

11am to 12pm – Topologies of softness – Clouds, bodies of air & water

With Gabi Schillig

12pm to 1pm – The choreography of crumbs: reconstructing territory through food

With David Menzi

5pm to 6pm – Discussion round with Instituto Cambará and guided tour

6pm to 8pm – Film: When Brazil was modern (Otis support)

Preceded by a conversation and presentation by director Fabiano Maciel

 

5/10 – Sunday

CIRCULARITY IN THE CITY

11am to 1pm – Multispecies architectures

Lecture and debate with Husos arquitectos (Spain), Festival agrocuir (Spain), Leyuan Li Roundtable (Your greenhouse is your kitchen)

2pm to 5pm –  Urban Agriculture: the circularity of food in the city

Lecture and debate with Leyuan Li (Your greenhouse is your kitchen), Office for Roundtable (Colorado), Lia Palm (Sampa+ Rural), Juliana Tângari (Comida do Amanhã LUPPA), Luisa Haddad (Pe de Feijão)

6pm to 8pm – Cycles of construction and deconstruction: circular design

Lecture and debate with Akemi Ino, Leticia Grappi, Natalia Lessa Arquivo SSA, Karina Schwartzman and mediation by Graziela Nivoloni

 

6/10 – Monday

SP FORUM 25

6pm to 9pm – Opening at IABsp – Bento Freitas Street, 306

Lecture with Carlos Nobre and organizers of the SP 25 Forum

 

7/10 – Tuesday

SP FORUM 25

2:00 PM to 3:45 PM – Thematic Session 1. Environmental heritage, climate change and public policies

Presentation of works.

4:00 PM to 5:45 PM – Thematic Session 2. Living with water, adapting infrastructure and redefining waste

Presentation of works.

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm – Table 1: Environment, Infrastructure and Urban Risks

With Joice Berth (to be confirmed), Fernando Nogueira (UFABC), Marussia Whately (Institute of Water and Sanitation), Renato Anelli (Klimapolis/INCT/Mackenzie). Coordination/mediation: Nabil Bonduki (FAUUSP). Reporting: Carolina Heldt (Escola da Cidade)

 

8/10 – Wednesday

SP FORUM 25

2:00 PM to 3:45 PM – Thematic Session 3. Rehabilitating architectural and urban heritage, valuing pre-existing structures and building green

Presentation of works.

4:00 PM to 5:45 PM – Thematic Session 4. Circulating and accessing a sustainable city together and 5. Promoting decent housing and climate justice

Presentation of works.

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm – Table 2: City Production, Mobility and Heritage

With Adriano Borges (Insper), Bianca Tavolari (Cebrap/Tide Setubal), Evaniza Rodrigues (UNMM), Flavia Brito (FAUUSP). Coordination/mediation: Angélica Alvin (Mackenzie). Reporting: Maria Cristina da Silva Leme (FAUUSP)

 

9/10 – Thursday

SP FORUM 25

2:00 PM to 3:45 PM – Thematic Session 5. Promoting decent housing and climate justice

Presentation of works.

4:00 PM to 5:45 PM – Thematic Session 6. Governing with inclusion, participation and social control

Presentation of works.

6:30 pm to 9:00 pm – Table 3: Governance, Representation and Social Participation 

With Maria Lucia Refinetti Martins (representation of universities), Eduardo Della Manna (representation of businesspeople), Silvio Oksman (IABsp), Sidney Pita (ULC) and José de Abraão (Northwest Zone Movement – representation of the housing movement). Coordination/mediation: Daniel Montandon (Uninove). Reporting: João Meyer (FAUUSP)

 

10/10 – Friday

RISK-FREE OUTSKIRTS

10am to 12:30pm – The role of PMRR risk mapping for peripheral communities in the context of climate change

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM – SBN Peripheries Feasibility Study 

4pm to 6pm – The role of PCRAs in peripheral communities in the context of climate change

6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. – SBN in the adaptation of the peripheries to climate change

 

 11/10 – Saturday

ARCHITECTURES AROUND THE WORLD

11am to 1pm – Pan-African Architecture Biennale

With Omar Degan and coordination by Ligia Nobre

EU TALKS

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM – Architecture for Learning and Civic Use

With ⁠Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke (Germany – MIES Award Winners), ⁠Matheus Seco (Bloco Arquitetos) 

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM – Culture and Public Architecture

With Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano (EUmies 2024 Revelation Winner), Carlos Aberto Maciel (Associated Architects) 

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM – Reconnecting with Nature & Circular Design

With Florian Foerster (Representative of Bauhaus Earth – Germany), ⁠Gloria Cabral (Pending)

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM – Architecture of Belonging: Interpreting Heritage Through Place

With Amélia Tavella (French architect finalist for the EUmies 2024 Prize), Adriano Mascarenhas (Sotero Arquitetos – Bahia)

7:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Palmas, the ecological capital of Tocantins for 36 years

Round table with guests and launch of Palmas City Hall contest

 

12/10 – Sunday

TRAINING, CITIZENSHIP AND NATURE

10am to 1pm – Childhoods and Climate in the City

With Ateliê Navio, Allma, Parliamentary Front PI, Combi Flora, Mobile Naturalized Park, Urban95, BR Network of Collaborative Urbanism

2pm to 3pm – Doing a lot with a little: Anthropocene and the crisis of architecture

Lecture with Wellington Cançado (Piseagrama)

3pm to 4pm – In Formation: Architectures for a Planet in Transition

Lecture with Esteban Benavides (Al Borde, Ecuador)

4:30 PM to 5:30 PM – Earth – building a sustainable and democratic future 

Table with Alain Briatte, Anaïs Guéguen-Perrin, Argus Caruso, Francisco Barros, representative of the MST 

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Living With – French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

With the Curator of the Living with (Vivre Avec) French Pavilion in Venice, Dieu & Bicho Architectes, Danielle Khoury Gregorio and Raquel Khoury Gregorio

 

October 14th – Tuesday

TRAINING, CITIZENSHIP AND NATURE

10am to 1pm – Urgent Panorama – Panorama 

With André Dal'Bo, Welton Oliveira, Mariana Fix (FAU USP), Nelson Brissac, Bete França (SMUL), Pedro Fernandes (SP Urbanismo), Afonso Castro, Jéssica Fernandes (FAU Mackenzie)

2pm to 5pm – Urgent Panorama – Paraisópolis

With Carmen Silva (Homeless Movement of the Center – MSTC), Janilton de Oliveira (Vice-president of the Residents and Commerce Union of Paraisópolis), Denis de Souza Neves (ArqCoop+), Lucca Maia (SP Urbanism)

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Launch of the “Nature-Based Education” Guide

Jerá Guarani (indigenous leader and activist of the Guarani Mbya ethnic group), Fernanda Pacopahyba (FNDE), Luiz Miguel Martins Garcia (UNDIME), Jaume Barnada (Climate Refuges project, Barcelona)

 

October 15th – Wednesday

TRAINING, CITIZENSHIP AND NATURE

10am to 1pm – For an Anti-Racist Adaptation

With Mariana Belmont (Geledes), Rodrigo Jesus (Greenpeace), Diosmar FIlho (Iyaleta), Thaynah Gutierrez (Anti-Racist Adaptation Network) 

3pm to 5pm – Seminar on Culture and Contemporary Reality at Escola da Cidade

Conversation with curators: Marcella Arruda, Karina Silva and Renato Anelli

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Technical assistance to communities in Bahia: collaboration as research and research as collaboration

With Daniel Marostegan (Model Conservation Site), Débora Didonê (Collective Sites), Zara Francisco Rodrigues (Show Your Neighborhood), Glória Cecília dos Santos (FAUUFBA), Thais Rosa (Periferia Viva at the UFBA Residence)

 

October 16th – Thursday

CAU/SP

10am to 1pm – Presidents' Forum

2pm to 5pm – Presidents' Forum

REUSE IN LARGE URBAN CENTERS

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Revive the Center

Panel with Eduardo Paes (Mayor of Rio de Janeiro/National Front of Mayors), Alê Youssef (former Secretary of Culture of São Paulo), Marta Moreira (MMBB) 

 

October 17th – Friday

PERIPHERIES IN CLIMATE ACTION

10am to 1pm – Citizen Science in Climate Adaptation – experiences in Bahia

With Talita Stael (Map of the outskirts), Marta Raquel da Silva Alves (Brazilian Observation Network), Luisa Gusmão (Escalar Collective), Paulo Zangalli Junior (Thermal Maps of Salvador)

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM – Territorial climate action and justice

With Georgia Haddad (Procomum), Claudia Gibeli (Casa Fund), Luana Alves (Risk-Free Periphery), Andrea Coutinho (CBJC) Vitor Mihessen (Comuá/Casa Fluminense)

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM – Living Periphery

With Guilherme Simões 

 

October 18th – Saturday

THE ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN CLIMATE ACTION

10am to 1pm – Taking action for climate adaptation from the Public Authorities

With Taina de Paula (City Hall of Rio de Janeiro), Tamires de Oliveira (City Hall of São Paulo, SVMA), Rafael Passos (IPHAN RS), Cecilia Sá (MinC), Flavio de Tavares (SNP) and mediation by Raquel Schenkman (President IABsp)

2pm to 5pm – Building a decarbonized and climate-resilient urban environment

With Birgitte Krohn (Consulate of Denmark), Elisabete França, Henrique Goes (C40), SIURB, SMUL, SECLIMA, Denise Duarte (FAU-USP), Andrea Bergamaschi (IDB) and mediation by Cristiane Borba (C40)

4:00 PM – Book launch of the 2nd Climate Emergency and Cities Seminar

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM – Closing Session of the 14th BIAsp – Paths to the Future

With Lygia Nassar (Lab da Cidade), Taynara Gomes (CAU PA), Odilo Almeida (national president IAB), Cid Blanco (ODS/UIA Commission), mediation by Raquel Schenkman (president IABsp).

7:30 pm to 8:15 pm – International Schools Competition Award at the 14th International Architecture Biennial

8:15 p.m. – Closing Cocktail 

And opening our Debate Forum, tomorrow (19/09) we will have:

1:30 pm - debate between China and Brazil at China architecture exhibition day

6:00 pm - opening conference with Kongjian Yu (China), creator of the concept of Sponge cities

And there's much more! Workshops, activities, lectures, exhibitions. Join! It's all free!

(The schedule and projects are still in the process of being included on the website; it will be complete soon)