Patrimônio em risco: cosmologias ancestrais e ação climática - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

This session proposes a decolonial shift in the debate on African heritage and climate emergency, focusing on the cosmologies and resistance practices of traditional communities. We question hegemonic models of adaptation, which empty their political potential for insurgency against environmental racism and the historical disorder that consolidates socio-spatial segregation.

Communities such as Aldeia Guató, the Mebengokré nation, Candomblé terreiros and quilombos, despite being exposed and vulnerable, demonstrate that resilience emerges from radically situated epistemologies, intrinsic to their memory and the way they build and inhabit. We seek approaches from a diversity of traditional sites and communities in Brazil and Latin America that reveal ways to map cultural values (cartographies, orality), assess risks (impacts and threats) and develop climate action plans (strategies, policies).

This session invites a radical transformation, regarding the role of (bio)cultural heritage in combating climate extremes (chaos) and the becoming of inhabiting the Cosmos (order). More than “including” traditional knowledge in current architectural or urban models, we aim for a complete reorganization of adaptation. What forms of spiritual climate governance emerge from the integration of ancestral knowledge and community practices? How can the cosmoperceptions of traditional peoples translate into more just, inclusive and resilient cities? How can climate action be reimagined based on the ethics of care, reciprocity and justice for permanence in the territory?

Presentations:

The memories of the water of Iquitos. Moronacocha case
Moses Porras

Community space for the Huarpe de Aguas Verdes community: Fragmented territory, knowledge in resistance and climate action from community architecture
Mauricio Vellio and Martín Ezequiel López

Who pays the climate bill? Afro-Brazilian spiritual governance between worlds – Morro da Pedra de Oxóssi and Highway BR 030
Maria Alice Pereira da Silva, Fernanda Viegas Reichardt, Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi, Bruno Amaral de Andrade and Celso Almeida da Silva Cunha

In search of the Land without Evils: a proposal for design intervention based on the Guarani Mbyá indigenous cultural heritage
Ana Helena Leichtweis

Tide of struggle: the re-existence of quilombola heritage for climate adaptation
Liane Monteiro dos Santos and Thiago Assuncao dos Santos

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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 | 6pm – table Living With – French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and 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

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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.

Heritage at risk: ancestral cosmologies and climate action

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