Tá lá na rua do Acaia - 14ᵃ Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura de São Paulo

Ateliescola Acaia is a socio-educational project in Vila Leopoldina that offers 250 children and young people, primarily from low-income communities surrounding CEAGESP, free full-time education, healthcare, and citizenship training. Students can attend from preschool to pre-technical level, benefiting from an environment that combines theory and practice and values creativity and autonomy.

Every day, around 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., families briefly converge at the gate of Ateliescola Acaia—a place marked by joy and care, but also by asphalt, parked cars, and heat. In recent years, São Paulo has faced intense heat waves, disproportionately impacting low-income communities with limited access to adaptive infrastructure. The children at Acaia live and navigate these "extremes" daily.

Responding to the pressing issue of extreme heat in urban São Paulo, the project brings together students, parents, and educators to design and build a temporary prototype structure on the threshold of the Ateliescola Acaia. It directly engages the lived experience of those most affected—children and caregivers—to redefine and transform the school's entrance area into a shared, shaded, and welcoming gathering space.

This collaborative intervention draws on vernacular knowledge and tactical urbanism, exploring the connections between climate justice, urban transformation, and intergenerational learning. The resulting framework will test site-specific solutions through low-tech strategies, but will also serve as a platform for community storytelling.

It's there on Acaia Street is a project started by carpenter Alice Barkhausen (DE), designer and cultural producer Sofia Costa Pinto (BR), architect and builder Maddalena Pornaro (IT) and urban researcher and educator Licia Soldavini

Schedule

From September 8th to 18th, from 9am to 4pm – Drawing and construction workshop (only for Ateliescola Acaia students)

September 19, 4pm to 7pm – Opening at the Acaia Institute with music, conversation and food (open to all)

4pm – Music with Culture on the Sidewalk by: Hilton Hits

5:00 PM – Presentation of results and group conversation with Zoy Anastassakis (ESDI/UERJ)

6pm – Food and drinks

Acaia Institute, Dr. Avelino Chaves St., 159 – Vila Leopoldina, São Paulo – SP, 05318-040

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.

It's there on Acaia Street

Alice Barkhausen, Sofia Costa Pinto, Maddalena Pornaro, Licia Soldavini & Instituto Acaia