Águas do Cadaval: regeneração com tecnologias tradicionais - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Project implementation: Brazil
Project development: Brazil

Ilê Asé Odé Ibualamo, a Traditional Territorial Unit of Yoruba origin, and its collective living spaces were materially destroyed on December 15, 2022. The lush vegetation and the watercourse, rich in history, also succumbed during the channeling of Cadaval Stream for the construction of a public road, giving way to the cold, gray asphalt that took away its breath, suffocated the earth, and silenced the waters. Ilê Asé Odé Ibualamo represented the great sustaining tree of that peripheral urban environment, like a great Baobab with its memories, knowledge, and practices transferred here from Africa.

The project emerged from the struggle of the Ilê Odé Front, conceived by Odecidarewá Zana de Odé, which brought together architects, urban planners, teachers, researchers, and peripheral leaders to compose a study that gave rise to this project, which integrates traditional wisdom and its technologies in response to the violence suffered. The proposal operates as a tool for struggle and resignification of the memory of Ilê, but also of an ancestral urbanity. We propose a new reading of the city based on a critique of the hygienist methodologies of exclusion of Black territoriality, which guided the development of the São Paulo metropolis. The set of facilities, based on the culture of Traditional Peoples of African Descent, is a practice of re-existence and re-enchantment of life, which resignifies and heals a large open wound in the city. A possible rescue for a future that must also be ancestral.

Participate in the program of debates, workshops and associated activities!

TODAY (10.10)

2:30 pm – table Risk-Free Periphery in the Context of Climate Change

4pm – table Knowing to Transform: Community Climate Risk Reduction and Adaptation Plans

6:30 pm – table Inclusive Adaptation: Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries

9am – Drawing Workshop: Oscar Niemeyer's Architecture in Ibirapuera Park and the Climate Challenge

IN THE NEXT DAYS (11 to 14.10)

ATTENTION the table Palmas: For 36 years, the ecological capital of Tocantins which would be held on 10/11 | 7pm was canceled.

11.10 and 12.10 | 9am – workshop Inventa(rio) Fronteiras: Playing for Multispecies Cities

11.10 | 10am – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 11am – table Learning to inhabit the Anthropocene: the crisis of architecture

11.10 | 2pm – table Architecture for Learning and Civic Use

11.10 | 3pm – table Culture and Public Architecture

11.10 – 15h – workshop Elémenterre teaching bag

11.10 | 4pm – table Reconnecting with Nature & Circular Design

11.10 | 5pm – table Architecture of Belonging: Interpreting Heritage Through Place

12.10 | 10am – table Experience: Climate Refuges and Naturalized Public Spaces, with Eco-Neighborhood

12.10 | 10:30 am – table Childhoods and Climate: Climate Justice in Vulnerable Territories

12.10 | 10:30 am – Windsock Workshop with the Floating Collective

12.10 | 3pm – table Doing a lot with a little: architectures for a planet in transition with Esteban Benavides from Al Borde office

12.10 | 4:30 pm – table Earth – building a sustainable and democratic future

12.10 | 5:45 pm – table French presence at the Biennale and screening of the film AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

13.10 – activity Pantanal Action at IABsp

10/14 | 10am – table Urgent Panorama! Space as an act of permanence

14.10 | 6pm – Launch of the “Nature-Based Education” Guide

JOIN! IT'S ALL FREE!

And there's much more until October 19th!

NOTE OF CONDOLENCE

With deep sorrow, the Brazilian Institute of Architects – São Paulo Department (IABsp) mourns the passing of architect and landscape architect Kongjian Yu, a global leader in ecological urbanism, and the members of his team who accompanied him, tragically killed during the filming of a documentary. The institute is honored to have had him as a participant in the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where his transformative vision strengthened the dialogue between global challenges and local realities. IABsp emphasizes that Yu's contribution, which transcends borders, will remain an inspiration for generations and expresses its condolences to China, to the families of all the deceased, to his friends, and to all those impacted by his genius and dedication. Read the full note here.

Cadaval Waters: regeneration with traditional technologies

Frente Ilê Odé Ibualamo