Let the water flow…

A tribute from the 14th International Architecture Biennial to the Architect and Landscaper Kongjiang Yu, and to the Cinematographers Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim

4pm
Opening

Raquel Schenkman, IABsp

Renato Anelli, 14th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo

Marcos Monteiro, Secretary of SIURB – City of São Paulo

Michel Hoog, ABAP (Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects)

4:20 p.m. 
Let the water flow… 

Presentation of a 20-minute version edited by Caio Guerra of the recording of Kongjiang Yu's lecture at the opening of the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial

4:40 p.m.
Sponge Planet, a film for all of us

Screening of the teaser for the documentary being made with Kongjian Yu by Luiz Ferraz and Rubens Crispim and which will be completed by the film's production.

Testimony of family members

5:00 p.m.
Testimonials

People who lived with Kongjian Yu during his visits to Brazil

Nabil Bonduki (Architect and Urban Planner FAU USP/ Councilman of São Paulo)

Paulo Pellegrino (Landscaper FAU USP)

Raul Pereira (Landscaper)

Ciça Gorski (Landscaper)

Dionê Maria Marinho de Castro (Landscaper, Niterói City Hall)

Elisabeth França (Secretary SMUL PMSP)

Marcos Monteiro (Secretary SIURB PMSP)

Pedro Martin Fernandes (President of SP Urbanism)

Marina Bragante (City Councilor of São Paulo)

Renata Falzoni (City Councilor of São Paulo)

6:30 p.m. 
Homage

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Closing the debate forum of the 14th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo we will have the Closing Session – Paths for the Future with the participation of Camila Camargo (CAU/SP), Taynara Gomes (CAU/PA), Pedro Rossi (Cultural Director of the IAB), Cid Blanco (SDG Commission/UIA) and Raquel Schenkman (IABsp president), who will speak briefly about the role of these institutions in the face of the climate crisis, such as the organization of the IAB Guides for the 2030 agenda, a partnership between the UIA and the IAB, and the participation of architects in COP-30 in Belém.

Afterwards, we will welcome the curators for a brief conversation about the Biennial. 

At the end of the event, the 5 winning projects will be announced. International Schools Competition of the 14th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo, chosen from among the 30 works selected by the judging panel. The awards ceremony will be attended by Lucas Fehr, curator of the Competition, and judging panel members Roberta Menezes Rodrigues and Luís Antônio Jorge. 

The 14th BIAsp International Architecture and Urban Planning School Competition aims to recognize student projects related to the event's theme. Submitted proposals focus on solutions and approaches that reshape the way human actions have approached and transformed the environment, whether urban, rural, or natural.

The competition's objective is to submit a project in a location and theme freely chosen by the interested parties, within the thematic proposal of the 14th BIAsp. The architecture and urban planning programs selected their projects and registered a representative for the International Competition of Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning.

The proposals present diverse contexts and scales and value regional, social, economic and cultural differences, within the understanding that architectural design must contribute to the possibility of sustaining life on the planet, through more effective and viable solutions, and through the engagement of the population and their governments.

The open call received more than 130 entries from around the world and 30 works were selected by the judging panel. 

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Photo: Denise Andrade

The responsibility of public authorities in confronting the climate crisis is undoubtedly fundamental to ensuring climate justice and greener, more adapted, and resilient cities. This is the topic of the panel, which invites public administrators with degrees in architecture and urban planning who work in various government departments, areas, and levels. These leaders contribute to and work in various public administration departments across the country, including in the executive branch, and will discuss the programs and work they have been involved in over the past year.

The following are invited to share their experiences and challenges: architect Tainá de Paula, elected councilwoman in Rio de Janeiro and currently Municipal Secretary of Environment and Climate; Tamires Carla de Oliveira, architect and Chief of Staff of the Secretariat of Green Areas and Environment of the city of São Paulo; Cecilia Gomes de Sá, architect and Undersecretary of Cultural Spaces and Equipment at the Ministry of Culture in Brasília; architect Rafael Passos, Superintendent of IPHAN in Rio Grande do Sul and former president of IAB-RS; architect Flávio Tavares, who was Secretary in the municipality of Conde, Paraíba, and currently coordinates the National Program "Periferia Viva" at the Ministry of Cities; and Thiago Reis, architect and director of the Secretariat of Culture of the State of Bahia. The panel will be moderated by Raquel Schenkman, President of IABsp, architect at the Municipal Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo, and former director of the Department of Historical Heritage of the city of São Paulo.

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The panel proposes a reflection on how public policies can recognize and strengthen these experiences, overcoming the racist view that sees favelas and communities merely as "problems to be fixed."

The discussion will bring together community leaders, parliamentarians, and institutional representatives to highlight concrete experiences of tackling the climate crisis from the peripheries—actions that combine inclusion, institutional innovation, and community leadership.

The panel will also seek to expand the dialogue on the role of the State in guaranteeing the right to safe housing, access to public services, and ensuring the protagonism of local agents in decision-making regarding the territory.

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Climate action takes place in territories and ensures different forms of justice when it involves ancestral and traditional knowledge, solutions, and popular practices, as well as the specificities of each context. How can we mobilize actions to combat climate change with equitable and fair treatment of impacts, considering the territorial dimension of inequalities—where vulnerable communities, especially in high-risk areas and indigenous territories, are most affected? The debate points to ways for philanthropy and public policies to implement local solutions and popular participation, not only to adapt territories to extreme events but also to reduce socio-environmental inequalities and guarantee the human and territorial rights of the most exposed populations.

Luana Alves (Risk-Free Periphery)
A Black woman, architect, and urban planner raised in Paratibe, a suburb of Paulista, Pernambuco. A specialist in Social Urbanism, Project Management, and Construction, with a certificate in Afro-Latin American Studies from Harvard University, she serves as General Coordinator of Coordination and Planning for the National Secretariat of Peripheral Areas of the Ministry of Cities, where she works to place peripheral areas at the center of national urban policies. A grassroots communicator, her career is built on community networks and is marked by a commitment to social justice, the strengthening of peripheral voices, and the defense of human rights and the right to the city.

Claudia Gibeli Gomes (House Fund)
Manager of Socio-Environmental Programs. A biologist with over 20 years of experience in socio-environmental justice, she holds a specialization in Territorial Planning and Management, Ecology and Environmental Management (USP), and has also studied Politics and International Relations (FESPSP). Her career is marked by work on urbanization projects for precarious settlements, participatory socio-environmental assessments, and community mobilization. She was a consultant for the UNDP at IBAMA and, for a decade, has worked as a Program Manager at Fundo Casa Socioambiental, coordinating initiatives in socio-biodiversity, just energy transition, forest restoration, and the right to the city.

Vitor Mihessen (Casa Fluminense)
Born and raised in Realengo, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Vitor is an economist with a degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a master's degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFF). His main areas of work are urban and social mobility, and economic, racial, gender, and climate inequalities in the Rio Metropolitan Region. He seeks to foster debates and actions on public policies based on collective diagnoses and proposals. He is a co-creator of certified social technologies such as the Citizen Data Generation (GCD) and the Local Agendas 2030. Since the founding of Casa Fluminense in 2013, he has coordinated the research and information area, being responsible for the institution's publications, such as the Inequality Maps and the Rio 2030 Agendas. He later became Executive Coordinator, leading the Civil Society Organization's program. Today, as General Coordinator of Casa Fluminense, he oversees the institutional area of the CSO. Vitor is General Coordinator of Casa Fluminense, co-founder and co-director of the Institution.

mediation by Alan Brum
A favela resident, sociologist, and PhD candidate in Urban Planning at IPPUR-UFRJ, Alan is a professor at GPDES – Public Management for Economic and Social Development – IPPUR/UFRJ (2020/2022); coordinator of the Center for Research, Documentation, and Memory of Complexo do Alemão – CEPEDOCA; co-founder and director of the Raízes em Movimento Institute and coordinator of the CPX Popular Action Plan. He is the CEO of ABP Consultoria Social, co-founder and member of the Editorial Board of the Marielle Franco Favela Dictionary – Fiocruz, and was a consultant for the National Secretariat of Peripheries – SNP/MCidades (2023/2024).

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The debate focuses on the contribution of citizen science to climate adaptation by involving communities in the collection, monitoring, and research of data and evidence, increasing the scope and accuracy of information to understand and mitigate the risks of climate change and its extreme events. How can we produce and share data for the socio-territorial development of communities? How can we make local active citizenship initiatives visible, strengthen the fight for social justice, and inform the formulation of public policies for climate adaptation?

Luisa Gusmão
Urban architect and master's student in Urban Planning at UFBA, where she researches Popular Technical Advisory and Community Risk Management. She is a member of Coletivo Escalar, working in partnership with social movements and community organizations in Salvador and the metropolitan region.

Marta Raquel da Silva Alves
Landscape architect and gardener, professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Bahia. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Piauí (2007) with a Specialization in Cultural Heritage from the Heritage Specialization Program - PEP / IPHAN, dedicating herself to landscapes (2007-2009), Master in Landscape Architecture from PROURB / UFRJ (2010-2012) and PhD in Architecture and Urbanism from PPGAU / UFBA (2019-2025). Member of the research group DALE! - Decolonizing Latin America and its Spaces.

Rian de Queiroz
A resident of the Maré favela complex, he holds a degree in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), where he also completed a master's degree in the same field, with an emphasis on environmental geography and political geography. He holds postgraduate degrees in Environmental Analysis and Territorial Management from ENCE/IBGE and in Social Urbanism from Insper. He currently coordinates socio-environmental projects at Redes da Maré.

Mediation by Clevio Rabelo
PhD in Architectural History from FAUUSP (2011), Master in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2006) and Architect and Urbanist from the Federal University of Ceará (2001). Since 2019, he has been an Adjunct Professor in the area of Architectural Design (40h-DE) at DAUD-UFC, in Fortaleza, where he coordinates outreach activities such as the Architectural Design: Thought and Praxis, the Migrant Generation and the research project Arquitetura Bicha. Between 2011 and 2019, he was a professor of design and contemporary history at FIAM-FAAM University Center, UNIP and the Specialization in Interior Design at Senac, all in São Paulo. Co-curator of the 14th International Biennial of São Paulo.

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Given the need to fulfill an agenda dedicated to climate action and sustainable development goals, the panel aims to present programs and projects being implemented in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and currently on display at this 14th International Architecture Biennial. Under the theme "reviving the center," these initiatives seek to activate existing spaces and care for the people and public who daily experience these spaces in central areas. The presented projects focus on proposing urban recovery and the recovery of existing structures that were closed, ensuring their restoration, transformation, or "retrofit," and urban reinsertion. Joint action and collaboration between public authorities, the business sector, and architecture and urban planning are essential to implementing successful projects.

The panel's guests will include the president of the National Front of Mayors (an organization representing more than 415 cities), Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes, elected for the 2025-2027 term. He will meet with former São Paulo Secretary of Culture and cultural producer Alê Youssef, one of the people responsible for the recently inaugurated Galeria Formosa restoration project under the Chá viaduct, and architect Marta Moreira, partner at the MMBB architecture firm, winner of the recent competition to repurpose the former Mapping building in downtown São Paulo for Sesc Galeria, a competition promoted by Sesc and organized by IAB-SP. The panel will be moderated by IAB-SP president Raquel Schenkman.

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

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The debate will feature guests from socio-technical advisory services to local communities in Bahia discussing construction site experiences and citizen participation. Technical advisory services are multidisciplinary teams that work with communities in peripheral territories, contributing to construction, renovation, and land regularization, urban development, as well as developing plans, advocacy strategies, and conflict mediation. So, how can we collaborate with local communities? What are the challenges of technical advisory services, and what progress has been made in local social transformation?

Thais Rosa
Professor and researcher at the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia, the AU+E Residency Program – Specialization in Technical Assistance, Housing, and the Right to the City – and the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism, where she coordinates the Margear group. She currently coordinates the Periferia Viva Action Plan for the Alto da Conquista and Marielle Franco occupations in Simões Filho, Metropolitan Region of Salvador, Bahia. She was a member of the Monotrilho em Disputa (Monorail in Dispute) and the Zeis Já! (Our Right to Housing and the City) Campaign in Salvador, Bahia. She was a founding member of the TEIA collective – a creative house (São Carlos, SP) and a collaborator in the USINA advisory board – a center for work on the inhabited environment (São Paulo, SP).

Debora Didone
A journalist, permaculturist, and socio-environmental activist, Débora has dedicated herself for 13 years—since the creation of Canteiros Coletivos—to developing, fundraising, and leading socio-environmental projects in the city of Salvador. Prior to her strong work in this field, she had a long career in journalism in São Paulo, where she wrote for local and national magazines and newspapers, and also won awards and recognition as a reporter. Communication, also focused on the nonprofit sector, continues to be a defining characteristic of her projects, work, and initiatives.

Gloria Cecilia Figueiredo
Urban planner with a degree from the State University of Bahia and a master's and doctorate in architecture and urban planning from the Federal University of Bahia. She is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in the area of urban and regional planning and a member of the research group Lugar Comum (Common Place). She is currently one of the curators of the "Our Future Forum: Dialogues between Africa, Europe, and Brazil," which will take place in November in Salvador. She is the Brazilian coordinator of the project "African Territories and Heritage: Spatial Imaginations, Ecological Urgencies, Educational Practices, and Epistemic Justice in Brazil and South Africa," an international collaboration between the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), the Federal University of Pasadena (UFPA), the University of Johannesburg, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Abdias Nascimento Program/Capes), as well as the research project "Ex-Centric Cities" (CNPq Universal). She is involved in urban initiatives and collaborations, such as the Popular Expertise in the Historic Center of Salvador and the "Canteiro Modelo de Conservação" (IPHAN, FAUFBA).

Zara Francisco
Master's in Urban Planning from UFBA, urban planner, architect, and artist, resident and researcher of Valéria, a Black neighborhood and territory in the city of Salvador, Bahia. General Coordinator of the Trama Association, where she develops collaborative and collective actions with communities in defense of socio-territorial rights through innovation, education, communication, urbanism, and the arts.

Flora Tavares
An urban planner and architect from Salvador, Bahia, she focuses on projects that combine urban planning and communication in social impact initiatives. With an interdisciplinary approach, she also works as a graphic designer, researcher, and visual artist, with experience in set design and art direction. She is a founding partner of TRAMA, an organization focused on implementing territorial innovation and community development projects through popular education, culture, and audiovisual media.

Daniel Morastegan
He holds a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of São Paulo (EESC-USP, 2001), a Master's degree in Teaching Methodology (PPGE-UFSCar, 2008), and a PhD in Architecture and Urban Planning (PPGAU-UFBA, 2021). He is an adjunct professor at the UFBA School of Architecture and coordinator of the Architecture, Urban Planning, and Engineering Residency Program at FAUFBA. He works with university extension programs, advising and providing technical assistance to grassroots movements, popular education, and construction processes. Since 2019, he has been working to bridge the gap between grassroots technical consulting and cultural heritage preservation.

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The debate discusses initiatives to address, from a climate perspective, vulnerabilities and inequalities that permeate territories: food insecurity, police violence, health, access to education and culture, and the right to the city. What institutional arrangements are important? How can we create co-governance spaces at the territorial level? How can we understand the dimensions of inequality already present in a territory when it suffers from extreme weather? With Rodrigo Jesus, Diosmar Filho, and Gisele Moura.

Diosmar Jr.
Geographer with a PhD in Geography from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and a Master's in Geography from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is a Senior Researcher and member of the Scientific Coordination Committee of the Iyaleta Research Association. Leading the research line "Land Use Planning, Inequalities, and Climate Change," he also coordinates the research project "Climate Adaptation: An Intersection for Brazil 2030." He is a faculty member of the Lato Sensu Specialization Program in Rights, Inequalities, and Climate Governance at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and is the Focal Point of the Iyaleta Research Association at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Gisele Moura
Environmental scientist with 15 years of experience in climate justice, peripheral territories, and public policy. She coordinated a socio-environmental technology network mobilizing more than 900 people and 300 initiatives in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, and represented community-based voices in spaces such as COP27 and the G20. She is a consultant for the Sustainable Urban Development Network (ReDUS) for COP30 and has contributed to publications such as "Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries" by the Ministry of Cities. She works at the interface between ancestral knowledge, social technology, and co-governance, arguing that climate adaptation must be anti-racist, intersectional, and territorially rooted.

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Schedule:

5:45 pm to 6:30 pm – Screening of the film AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

6:30 pm to 8:00 pm – Panel: French Presence at the Biennale

Guests:
Rachel Gregory
Vivre Avec – Living With (French Pavilion at the Venice Biennale)

Anaïs Guéguen-Perrin
CRATerre in France

Daniel Bicho (Dieu & Bicho Architectes)
AJAP – Albums of Young Architects and Landscape Architects

Mediation:
Valter Caldana (FAU Mackenzie)

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Lecture with Esteban Benavides (Al Borde, Ecuador), mediated by Pedro Rossi (Cultural Director, IAB-DN)

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Lecture with Wellington Cançado (Piseagrama)

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Discussion round with Instituto Cambará and guided tour

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Lecture and debate with LI Hu, Hon. FAIA, Founding Partner of OPEN Architecture and mediated by Carlos Eduardo Comas

In this keynote conference, OPEN explores how architecture connects nature, community, and the self, presenting a series of projects organized around three essential themes: Coexistence, Community, and Awakening. Spanning diverse typologies and scales, these projects embody OPEN's conviction that architecture is a medium that anchors human beings in today's complex world, grounding us in reality and in the very Earth to which we belong. OPEN's act of building and its reflections on construction are a constant attempt to create energy fields that balance radical approaches with poetic built forms, where human and nonhuman actors are integral parts of the whole.

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Panel with Fernando Damata Pimentel (CEO of Emgea), Antônio César Bochenek (Federal Judge of the 4th Region), José Carlos Alves (Director of Operations of Emgea) and guests

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With Father Julio Lancellotti, Marta Machado (Ministry of Justice), Anderson Miranda (Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship), Carlos Hashimoto (Caixa Econômica Federal), and Simone Gatti (FICA Fund) – mediation and curation

The number of people living on the streets of large cities has increased considerably in recent years. There are now over 300,000 nationwide. With climate change, this issue is even more urgent, as the homeless population, despite contributing the least to global warming, is the most affected by its effects, lacking safe shelter and experiencing extremely fragile socioeconomic and health conditions.

Since the 1990s, public policies targeting this profile have evolved worldwide. In many cities, the phased model, which begins with shelters, has given way to the "housing first" methodology—which sees residence as merely the first step in the process.

In Brazil, social housing is tied to the acquisition of private property. The homeownership model has not empowered our policies for housing management, which has always been the responsibility of residents, who are then owners. A housing policy for the homeless population, however, must guarantee permanent, multidisciplinary, and long-term support services.

The Minha Casa, Minha Vida program recently announced the allocation of 3% from FAIXA 1 developments for this population. Based on the experience of Morar Primeiro, implemented by the FICA Fund with the support of Father Julio Lancellotti, we will discuss the topic with federal government representatives, considering the urgency of the debate on how this policy will be implemented.

At the invitation of the FICA Fund, which is bringing this topic to the São Paulo Architecture Biennial for the first time, we will bring together urban planner Simone Gatti, who implemented the FICA housing program; Father Julio Lancellotti, a partner in the creation of Morar Primeiro and an emblematic figure in supporting the most vulnerable populations; and representatives of the Federal Government to discuss the policies being implemented and the challenges at hand.

The panel discussion will also feature Marta Machado, National Secretary for Drug Policy and Asset Management at the Ministry of Justice; Anderson Miranda, from the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship; and Carlos Hashimoto, from Caixa Econômica Federal, to discuss the policies being implemented and the challenges at hand.

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The table is part of the program Childhoods and Climate in the City

Initiative: Brazilian Network for Collaborative Urbanism

Organizations: Ateliê Navio, Coletivo Flutua, Paisagem Design Regenerativo, Flora, Discovering Playing, Ecoactive House

Support: Urban95, Early Childhood Parliamentary Front (FPPI)

The Brazilian Collaborative Urbanism Network brings together more than 20 organizations from all regions of the country, united by a common goal: to promote more inclusive, democratic, and just cities through collaboration. 

For the Architecture Biennial, the Network proposes a special program on the morning of Children's Day dedicated to the theme of childhood and climate in the city, inviting the public to reflect and act on the urban and environmental challenges affecting new generations. The activity seeks to broaden the debate on the inclusion of children in urban planning and the active participation of children in building more just and caring cities.

Topics on the agenda include climate issues and their impacts on children's lives, the urgency of climate justice in vulnerable territories, and collective strategies for addressing these issues. Also discussed will be ways to integrate and value the experiences of Black, Indigenous, riverside, and quilombola children, promoting an anti-racist urbanism that recognizes Brazil's multiple childhoods.

The program includes the following activities and activations:

Discussion Table – 10:30 am to 12 pm

Childhoods and Climate: Climate Justice in Vulnerable Territories 

The table will be integrated by: 

Gisele Moura, a scientist and environmental technician with 15 years of experience, who works in a transdisciplinary way combining science, ancestry and anti-colonial solutions to develop social technologies aimed at sustainability and socio-environmental resilience in favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Marina Bragante, a councilor in São Paulo for the Sustainability Network, a psychologist and master in Public Administration from Harvard, dedicated to policies for early childhood and urban sustainability, with a focus on climate adaptation and strengthening the care network for children and families.

Ursula Troncoso, architect and urban planner, founder of Ateliê Navio, with over 10 years of experience in participatory planning of public spaces, housing and child-friendly cities, in partnership with programs such as Urban95 Brasil and World Bank initiatives.

Karoline Freire Dias, a resident of Bororé Island. Trained as a cultural agent by Percurso Cultural, she currently works at Casa Ecoativa and is a co-founder of the collective Na Ilha Agência. She has participated in several training courses and workshops, such as the NAEA (Art and Environmental Education Center) with FAU-USP, and an environmental education course with Humanaterra. 

Mediation: Jaison Pongiluppi Lara, manager and coordinator of projects that integrate culture, education, and the environment. Member of Casa Ecoativa and manager of CCA – Center for Children and Adolescents. He coordinates the Adrião Escola Aberta project and the Bororé Island Memorial, with his activism trajectory documented in documentaries. How Big the Planet Is (Alana Institute) and Resistance Itineraries (SESC SP).

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Windsock Workshop with the Floating Collective 

Time: 10:30 am
Duration: 2 hours
Age Range: From 6 years old (accompanied by guardians)
Location: Oca Pavilion | Emergency Feeder | Basement

In this workshop, we'll create windsocks—objects made from plastic bags and wire that come to life in the wind. The activity proposes a meeting of reused materials, the body, the wind, and creation. 

Come let yourself go, play and create new directions with us!

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Experience: Climate Refuges and Naturalized Public Spaces, with Eco-Neighborhood

Time: 10 am
Duration: 2 hours
Age Range: From 6 years old (accompanied by guardians)
Location: Pablo Garcia Cantero Square, next to the Brazilian Cinematheque

This experience invites children from communities near Ibirapuera Park to explore the climate refuge at Pablo Garcia Cantero Square, which is part of the Ibirapuera Park–Aclimação Park Green Corridor and hosts the Vila Mariana Community Composting project. Children will experience free play in the naturalized micro-park and learn about the natural composting process. From the square, we'll take a short, recreational walk, passing through the Mini Urban Forest and the "Park of Dark Colors" in Soichiro Honda Square, until arriving at Oca in Ibirapuera Park.

Activations: 

Opening hours: 10am to 8pm

Flora: childhood in motion: Pop-up nature park for young children and babies, with activities and games using natural materials.

Eco-neighborhood and Regenerative Landscape Design: Interactive model for co-creation of naturalized and biophilic play spaces.

Discover by Playing: Living and Reading Space for families of 0-3 years old. The Bebeteca is a safe and intentionally designed space for young children accompanied by their caregivers to enjoy, where the baby will find motor challenges, books and objects to explore.

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The debate "Urban Agriculture: The Circularity of Food in the City" begins with a presentation of the Sampa + Rural program from the São Paulo City Hall's Department of Economic Development and Labor, and continues with the project "Your Greenhouse is Your Kitchen," from the Office for Roundtable, and representatives from the organizations Pé de Feijão and Comida do Amanhã, moderated by Vitória Leão. The debate highlights the relationship between urban agriculture and urban planning and management, revealing the flow of food in the city, considering the dimensions of proximity and circularity. Urban agriculture is not one, but diverse: food production within the city occurs in a capillary manner across territories, and therefore in different typologies, relationships, modes, and means. Growing food in the city dismantles the urban-rural paradigm and presents immense challenges, including land use, logistics, access to resources, and the intersectoral nature of the agenda.

The experiences present good practices in the stages of urban food system design, linked to production, marketing, acquisition, and use of food, thus inspiring the idea of cities based on agroecological food production, with responsible use of natural resources, respect for biodiversity, waste transformation, and democratic access to healthy and regular meals.

Victory Lion – CPDA/UFRRJ
Researcher and doctoral candidate in the Social Sciences Graduate Program in Development, Agriculture and Society (CPDA/UFRRJ). With a Master's degree in Applied Ecology from ESALQ/USP, she has specialized for over ten years in the analysis of family farming in Brazil and has extensive experience in studies and promoting public actions on urban and peri-urban agriculture in various Brazilian municipalities.

Lia Palm – Sampa + Rural
A social scientist from the University of São Paulo, she holds a master's degree in public policy and government management from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. She serves as the Agriculture Coordinator at the Municipal Secretariat for Economic Development and Labor and is a Public Policy and Government Management Analyst (APPGG), a tenured position at the São Paulo City Hall. Since 2019, she has been working on urban and peri-urban agriculture as part of the management team of the Ligue os Pontos Project. In early 2022, she expanded her work to support urban and peri-urban agriculture in the city of São Paulo, becoming the head of the Municipal Agriculture Coordination Office and later the Food and Nutrition Security Coordination Office.

Roberta Curan – Food of Tomorrow
She holds a Master's degree in Applied Ecology and a degree in Environmental Engineering. She works at the Food of Tomorrow Institute as the Intelligence and Knowledge Production Manager, where she coordinates and develops research, policy papers, studies, and general content on sustainable food systems. Her work in the NGO sector parallels her academic research; she is currently a doctoral researcher at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo (USP), focusing on sustainable food systems and food policy.

Luisa Haddad
He leads Pé de Feijão, an impactful business that promotes experiences that delight, welcome, and support people on their journeys to an increasingly healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Using urban gardens, food, conscious consumption, and composting as a platform to democratize information about food and the environment, demonstrating that the path to better eating can be a practical, enjoyable, and transformative experience. His work focuses on how information can lead to changes in eating and environmental behavior and the regeneration of spaces.

Leyuan Li – Office For Roundtable
Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on indoor and urban environments in the articulation of spaces and societies. He has worked internationally in architecture, working at OMA, SOM, and the Affordable Housing Lab. He is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a design collective that explores different forms and events of sharing.

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Landscape, Geography and Refugee Birds

The performance-reading "The Landscape, Geography, and Refugee Birds" begins with the destruction of the Brazilian Cerrado and the memory of the Green Revolution to reflect on the relationship between landscape, war, and agriculture. The Cerrado, one of the planet's most biodiverse biomes, is also one of the most affected by the advance of agribusiness, monocultures, and the intensive exploitation of natural resources. The performance connects this process to the logics of control and surveillance inherited from military technologies, revealing how war reinvents itself in the territory through modern agriculture.

Inspired by Edward Said's reflections in Invention, Memory, and Place, the work examines how narratives, memories, and geographical inventions are mobilized to erase ecosystems, ways of life, and collective histories, establishing a selective memory that favors power. In this context, the birds that leave the Cerrado in ruins and seek refuge in cities appear as living metaphors of forced displacement, becoming witnesses to a socio-environmental collapse.

Between fragments of text, images, and voice, the performance maps out the migrations—of animals, memories, and people—that emerge from a territory undergoing transformation and disappearance. The work invites the audience to consider the landscape not only as a setting, but as a field of political and symbolic dispute, where the violence of war, the invention of memory, and the urgency of rethinking the geographies of the present intersect.

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The built environment currently accounts for 23–40% of global urban emissions and is associated with significant climate risks, such as extreme heat and flooding in cities. As urban populations grow, the demand for new buildings, public spaces, and infrastructure will only grow: an estimated 60% of the built environment that will exist in 2050 remains undeveloped. For this reason, the green transition is crucial. In this session, we will bring together policymakers, architects, and researchers to explore practical ways to achieve this goal. With real-world case studies and global expertise, this session will demonstrate how transforming the built environment toward sustainability and resilience is a vital opportunity for cities around the world.

Discussion table with:

Elizabeth France, Municipal Secretary of Urban Planning and Licensing of Sao Paulo

Maria Teresa Fedeli, Executive Secretary of the Water Sources Program (SEHAB)

Fabio M. Espindola, Public Policy and Government Management Analyst at SECLIMA – São Paulo

Denise Duarte, Full Professor at FAU-USP

Riciane Pombo, Architect in the architecture office Guajava

Marcella Arruda, president of the institute A Cidade Precisa de Você and co-founder of the Brazilian Network of Collaborative Urbanism

Moderation:

Birgitte Krohn, City Councilor – Consulate of Denmark in Brazil

Henrique Goes, Sustainable Construction Manager at C40 Cities

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The National Secretariat of Peripheries (SNP) invites undergraduate students in Architecture and Urbanism and all interested people to participate in the Debate Panel Knowing to Transform: Popular Mapping and Community Plans for Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation.

The Debate Table (4pm to 6pm) is part of the general activity Periferia sem Risco, to be held throughout the day on 10/10/2025, at the Oca Auditorium, in Ibirapuera Park, from 2pm to 8:30pm.

The SNP's actions to promote popular mapping of peripheral territories, risk prevention and climate adaptation, and the CEP para Todos initiative will be presented, highlighting community protagonism as a foundation for enabling the process of adapting urban peripheries to climate change.

The objective is to present ways of mapping and making peripheral territories visible, from a technical-community lens and their contribution to processes and actions for climate adaptation.

The Table will be organized in 3 moments:
1- Presentation on Popular Mapping and CEP for All: forms of citizen data production and the Peripheral Nodes Network

2- Presentation of Community Climate Risk Reduction and Adaptation Plans: forms of technical-community articulation and implementation of contextualized actions based on socio-territorial realities

3- Questions and Answers/Collective debate on NBS and NBS in the Peripheries: technical-community challenges and potential contribution to the adaptation of urban peripheries to climate change
Participants:
Representatives of the National Secretariat for Peripheries and community leaders from peripheral territories involved in the actions

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The National Secretariat for Peripheries (SNP) invites undergraduate students in Architecture and Urbanism and all interested people to participate in the Debate Panel Inclusive Adaptation and New Ways of Intervening: Nature-Based Solutions in the Peripheries.

The Debate Table (6:30 pm to 8:30 pm) is part of the general activity Periferia sem Risco, to be held on 10/10/2025, at the Oca Auditorium, in Ibirapuera Park, from 2 pm to 8:30 pm.
SNP's actions to promote inclusive adaptation of urban peripheries to climate change, through the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions, will be presented with a focus on innovative technical-community approaches, multi-scale design methodologies and technical repertoire.

The objective is to discuss the scope of Nature-Based Solutions for adapting peripheral areas and their possible contribution to diversifying the forms of infrastructure in these territories.

The Table will be organized in 3 moments:
1- Presentation of the SBN public policy in the Peripheries

2- SBN Actions in the Peripheries:
SBN Prototype: research and extension projects involving SBN in Belém/UFPA and Ilhéus/UFSB
SBN Feasibility Studies: technical studies for the implementation of SBN Arrangements in Ceilândia/DF and Diadema/SP (in partnership with VDFresta)
Resilient Green Peripheries in partnership with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change

3- Questions and Answers/Collective debate on NBS and NBS in the Peripheries: technical-community challenges and potential contribution to the adaptation of urban peripheries to climate change

Participants:
Anita Rodrigues Freire, an urban architect, has dedicated herself exclusively to projects and projects undertaken by Oficina da and the Fresta Group since 2013.

Carolina Jessica Domschke Sacconi, an urban architect, has dedicated herself to the Fresta Group since 2009 and has been a partner and coordinator at VD Arquitetura since 2018, often combining the two firms into a single project.

Leonardo dos Santos Varallo, graduated in Environmental and Urban Engineering and General Coordinator of Risk Plans and SBN of the National Secretariat of Peripheries of the Ministry of Cities.

Jordana Alca Barbosa Zola, urban architect, consultant to the National Secretariat for Peripheral Areas of the Ministry of Cities for structuring the SBN public policy in the peripheries.

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The National Secretariat of Peripheries (SNP) invites undergraduate students in Architecture and Urbanism and all interested people to participate in the Debate Panel New ways of seeing: Peripheries Without Risk in the context of climate change.

The Debate Table (2 pm to 3:30 pm) is part of the general activity Periferia sem Risco, to be held throughout the day 10/10/2025, in the Oca Auditorium, in Ibirapuera Park, from 2 pm to 8:30 pm.

SNP's actions to identify and map risks in peripheral territories will be presented, focusing on innovative approaches to technical-community reading and the application of new mapping and terrain modeling technologies to develop risk mitigation strategies and qualify the various forms of peripheral occupation.

The objective is to discuss how the social production of risk materializes in peripheral occupations and how forms of risk identification and mapping should be applied to strengthen community ties, autonomy, and resilience of peripheral populations in the face of disasters exacerbated by climate change.

The Table will be organized in 3 moments:
1- What is a Risk-Free Periphery?
The identification and mapping process as a subsidy for actions to qualify peripheral territories

2- Questions and Answers/Collective debate on the social construction of risk and the Periphery Without Risk strategy: technical-community challenges and potential contribution to the adaptation of urban peripheries to climate change

Participants:
Leonardo dos Santos Varallo, graduated in Environmental and Urban Engineering and General Coordinator of Risk Plans and SBN of the National Secretariat of Peripheries of the Ministry of Cities.

Jordana Alca Barbosa Zola, urban architect, consultant to the National Secretariat for Peripheral Areas of the Ministry of Cities for structuring the SBN public policy in the peripheries.

Julia Ladeira, geographer and technical consultant for the National Secretariat of Peripheries in the DPR, focusing on promoting the Community Plans for Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation (PCRA) policy

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

Leticia Grappi
An architect from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), she strives to work on projects and projects with low environmental impact. She was the architect responsible for the construction of a school and library in the João Amazonas Settlement in Ilhéus, Bahia. She was a member of the TerraBrasil 2024 Congress Coordination Committee, a member of the TerraBrasil Network from 2022 to 2024, a technical reviewer for Gernot Minke's book "Manual de Construção com Terra" (Manual of Construction with Earth), co-creator of mapadaterra.org, and founder of the group "Mulheres na Bioconstrução" (Women in Bioconstruction).

Akemi Ino
Full Professor, Associate Doctor (2008) at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism (IAU USP), currently Vice-Director of the IAU (2024-2028), held the position of Vice-President of the IAU Graduate Committee in the 2016-2018 and 2018-2020 management, Master's and Doctorate advisor of the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism of the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP is coordinator of the HABIS Research Group (Housing and Sustainability), created in 1993 registered in the CNPq Directory. Graduated in Civil Engineering from USP (1979); Master's in Architecture and Urbanism from EESC USP (1984-Temporary house using corrugated cardboard); Specialization at Osaka City University (1987) Japanese Wooden Housing; PhD in Civil Engineering from the Polytechnic School USP (1992) Modular Structural System in Round Eucalyptus for Housing and Free Teaching from IAU USP (2008) Technologies in social housing, Research, Extension and Teaching, a reflection of the trajectory at the public university.

Natalia Lessa
A founding partner of Arquivo, she holds a degree in Architecture from UFBA (Federal University of Bahia). She coordinates the dismantling and recycling of materials from properties in the city of Salvador and provides consulting services on public policies related to dismantling and the circular economy for public and private clients. She has served on project committees at national and international universities (Architectural Association UK, UFBA, UFMG, SENAI, and UFRJ).

Karina Schwartzman
She holds a degree in architecture from the Ibero-American University and a master's degree in Bioclimatic Architecture from Isthmus Panamá. She is the founder of the architectural firm Tecorral Estudio, with over 15 years of experience completing projects at various scales, from master plans to houses and property conversions, among others. She specializes in regenerative design, biomimicry, ecovillage design and permaculture, Gaia Alchemy, U-lab, transformational coaching, and deep ecology. She teaches socio-environmental advocacy projects at the Ibero-American University of Mexico City, where she won the UBUNTU award. Together with Karen Poulain, Alan Cohen, and Diego Pontones, she founded SEED, a company focused on innovating earth construction techniques, such as poured earth and 3D earth printing. They are currently building the first 3D-printed, self-supporting habitable module in Latin America. They also have a laboratory where they hold events and workshops focused on sharing knowledge about ancestral earth construction techniques and biomaterials.

Graziela Nivoloni
An architect and urban planner with a master's degree in Design from the University of São Paulo, Graziela Nivoloni works at the intersection of education, nature, and organizations through a systemic approach and collective intelligence. At IED, she leads the Biodesign | Circularity and Biomaterials Laboratory, coordinates the undergraduate program in Product and Service Design, and coordinates courses in partnership with Casa Vogue. She also serves on the academic board of the Center for Innovation, Design, and Business (CR+IED).

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The panel proposes a dialogue on projects that point the way to preserving sociobiodiversity in cities. Examples involving the integration of local communities and landscapes, the promotion of sustainable production chains, and the development of nature-based solutions will be presented and discussed. The debate will also address initiatives that expand green spaces, create wildlife-friendly landscapes, and raise collective awareness about the importance of environmental conservation. This discussion connects directly to one of the Biennial's central themes: Preserving forests and reforesting cities, radically incorporating biodiversity as a way to reverse global warming.

Invited participants:

Patricia Sanches – CAIXA seal of sustainable management
Ricardo Cardim – Landscaper, botanist and director of Cardim Landscape Architecture
Adriana Afonso Sandre – Landscape architect, biologist, professor at FAUUSP and researcher at FAPESP
Oscar Bressane – Landscape architect and director of Oscar Bressane Arquitetura e Paisagismo

Guest speaker:
Marina Bragante – Councilwoman of São Paulo – Sustainability Network

Mediation:
Mediation: Leandro Fontana – IABsp

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Come and see the winning projects from the Thermas unit in Presidente Prudente 

We invite everyone to the ceremony to announce the results of block 2 of the Sesc Architecture Competitions, during the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial, where the classifications and honorable mentions of the projects from the Thermas unit in Presidente Prudente will be revealed.

The ceremony is open to the public with tickets available at the link below.

Date:

September 26, 2025

from 7pm at the 14th BIAsp

Location:

Oca Auditorium, basement – Ibirapuera Park

Pedro Álvares Cabral Avenue, s/n – Gate 2

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Case studies with Lucas Padilha (Secretary of Culture of Rio de Janeiro), Pedro Fernandes (SPUrbanismo), Marcos Barral (Oterprem – Drainage Floors), and mediation by Camila Reis (Urban Nature and IABsp)

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"When Brazil Was Modern" is the new documentary by director Fabiano Maciel. Distributed by O2 Play and highly praised during the 30th edition of the "It's All True" festival, one of the most important film events in the country, it received an honorable mention from the jury for its extensive and in-depth research. According to the judges, the feature film offers a compelling interpretation of Brazilian history, with architecture serving as the guiding thread through countless political and aesthetic disputes waged in the country throughout the 20th century.

Today, Brazilian modern architecture is considered one of the most revolutionary and daring of the period, having influenced generations of architects worldwide. But in the early 1930s, choosing an architectural style also meant choosing a project for the country. The winning architectural style would also determine the direction of the visual arts, education, healthcare, and the desired social model for the nation. And the contest wasn't exactly friendly. Quite the opposite. Numerous battles were fought in government offices, universities, and, especially, in the country's newspapers and magazines, where the exchange of accusations was constant. Symbolically, it can be said that the war began in 1935, with the competition to design the headquarters of the Ministry of Education and Health in Rio, and culminated with the inauguration of Brasília in 1960.

Produced by Ocean Films, with investment from BB Asset Management and resources from the Audiovisual Sector Fund, When Brazil Was Modern shows how the country abandoned a project of excellence, which dissipated in the face of historical missteps. It abandoned a cutting-edge—and in many ways, utopian—project to once again settle for the muddy, dark sands of the past.

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Thermal Justice is an emerging concept that seeks to understand and address the risks generated by heat in cities, articulating ecological, technological, and social dimensions. The increase in heat waves, exacerbated by dense urbanization and the uneven distribution of vegetation, does not affect everyone equally: peripheral populations and historically marginalized groups are more vulnerable. Therefore, discussing Thermal Justice also implies discussing Environmental Justice, how the right to thermal comfort and shelter is distributed in urban spaces, and how public policies can ensure equity in the face of the climate crisis.

The panel proposes a dialogue based on experiences from the Global North and South, exploring how trees and urban vegetation can act as living infrastructure to mitigate heat and strengthen socio-spatial equity. To this end, we begin with four fundamental dimensions of justice: distributive, which addresses the fair allocation of resources and benefits such as shade and comfort; recognition, which demands attention to groups historically invisible in urban decision-making; capabilities, which considers not only the provision of goods but also the concrete conditions for individuals and communities to live and thrive; and procedural, which reinforces the importance of participation and inclusive processes in decision-making.

The panel will feature three guest researchers: Lucas Gobatti, an Architectural Engineer from POLI-USP and FAU-USP, a doctoral student at the MIT Senseable City Lab (United States) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and a researcher in urban climate and green-blue infrastructure, with work integrating climate modeling, socio-environmental justice, and public policy. Gabriela Alves, a Social Scientist from UNIFESP and a Social Urbanist from Insper, Co-founder and Director of the Instituto Perifa Sustentável, works on social innovation, racial and environmental justice, a just energy transition, and community development in peripheral territories. Rodrigo F. Iacovini, a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from FAU-USP and a Law graduate from UFC, is the Executive Director of the Pólis Institute, where he coordinates the School of Citizenship, is a member of the Steering Committee of the Federal Government's Resilient Green Cities Program, and serves as a consultant for civil society organizations on strategic planning and institutional assessment processes.

By bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives and diverse trajectories, the panel seeks to broaden the understanding of Thermal Justice as a field of action and reflection that connects the right to the city with the climate emergency, contributing to more inclusive and resilient urban practices.

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Global production of petroleum-derived plastics is growing at a much faster rate than recycling. In Brazil, only a quarter of the nearly 15 million tons produced annually returns to the production cycle. More than reducing the use of virgin raw materials, we need to regenerate: transform existing waste into resources for a more sustainable future.

It is in this context that the Trilha Line, Novidário's first Circular Economy project, emerged. The collection was created using Lynx raw materials—recycled polypropylene and polyethylene sheets—the result of over a year of research in collaboration with Arte 8, a workshop specializing in creative recycling. Inspired by the Precious Plastic movement, Arte 8 collects post-consumer waste from various sources (residential, industrial, and voluntary) and transforms it into sheets used in furniture, coverings, objects, and works of art.

Each piece in the Trilha Line symbolizes this regeneration process: waste that would otherwise be discarded in the environment is returned as collective furniture. Combining aluminum and recycled plastics, the pieces were designed for high-use urban environments, combining strength and lightness in their organic forms inspired by nature. At the same time, their modularity and versatility allow for diverse compositions, creating dynamic gathering scenes in the city.

Novidário is a creative design and furniture studio that transforms living spaces and strengthens relationships. Founded by Luciana Sobral and José Machado, the brand combines industrial expertise and creative vision, applying circular principles to offer innovative and humane solutions. Its purpose is simple and ambitious: to create design that's good for the world and for everyone.

This will be a lecture that shares the process of introducing the Lynx raw material into the market and shows how urban waste was transformed into collective furniture and reintegrates plastic waste into the production cycle, transforming what would otherwise be discarded into durable, beautiful and collective design.

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Oca Pavilion | 1st floor | Live Lab

The lecture "Building with Fibers: Three Approaches" invites the audience to explore the potential of fibers as a building material through three main approaches: matter, geometry, and fabrication. It's a journey that connects research, practice, and experimentation, revealing how fibers can play a central role in contemporary architecture.

The journey begins with matter, exploring the intrinsic properties of fibers and their potential for transformation into hybrid composites. This dimension involves understanding fiber not only as a natural resource, but also as a construction material with its own performance, capable of responding to structural and environmental challenges. The second approach is geometry, which investigates how different organizational patterns influence the structural performance, aesthetics, and materiality of architectural objects. When fibers are arranged in different directions, densities, and layers, they generate distinct results, expanding the repertoire of architectural solutions and demonstrating how the logic of the material can guide the design process. The third dimension is fabrication, where theory and design meet practice. Through digital and robotic processes, the research demonstrates how fabrication can enhance the expressiveness and efficiency of fibers, enabling the creation of complex yet lightweight structures. This approach directly connects academic experimentation with architectural applications, highlighting how computational and robotic workflows open new frontiers for construction. Throughout the lecture, different projects are presented as concrete examples of these three approaches, demonstrating how the combination of materiality, geometry, and fabrication results in innovative architectural explorations with low environmental impact and high performance. The focus is on the use of natural fibers, which present themselves as promising biomaterials for sustainable and regenerative construction, capable of uniting tradition, innovation, and environmental responsibility.

Rebeca Duque Estrada is a Brazilian architect based in Stuttgart and a researcher at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD). With a Master's degree in Open Design from the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Buenos Aires, and a Master's degree in Architecture from the ITECH program at the University of Stuttgart, her research explores the intersection of computational design, robotic fabrication, and materials innovation. Focusing on hybrid systems of natural fibers and wood, she investigates ultralight and sustainable architecture. Rebeca teaches and advises master's thesis projects in the ITECH program and has contributed to several award-winning architectural prototypes. She is a TEDx speaker and former Autodesk Build Space resident, having presented her work in various academic and professional contexts.

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Urgent Panorama! The space as an act of permanence aims to bring to the Biennial a critical urban situation: Jardim Panorama and the Paraisópolis Complex, which are facing imminent redevelopment projects led by the City Hall, within the scope of the Faria Lima Consortium Urban Operation. The proposal is coordinated by Cristina Wehba, IABsp representative at the Faria Lima OUC (University of São Paulo), André Dal`Bó, professor representing FAUUSP, and Nelson Brissac (PUC-SP).

Jardim Panorama, a community historically threatened with eviction, is located next to large real estate developments on the banks of the Pinheiros Canal. It is a strategic area in the metropolitan restructuring, driven by the Novo Rio Pinheiros project and the implementation of Bruno Covas Park. This process could exacerbate social inequality and the exclusion of community residents from social housing and planned public spaces.

Within the same perimeter, the communities of Paraisópolis, Jardim Colombo, and Porto Seguro form one of the city's largest favelas, a territory of enormous social, urban, and environmental complexity, the target of numerous research projects and government-sponsored interventions. Like Jardim Panorama, the favela is located on steep slopes and is home to numerous streams, posing significant challenges for drainage and urban development solutions.

By bringing together research, art, and community action, the proposal affirms space as an act of permanence and demands that redevelopment ensure inclusion, decent housing, and qualified access to public spaces for those who build the city every day—with the exchange of experiences between territories as a basis for political coalition, effective participation, and influence in decision-making.

Team:
Cristina Wehba — urban architect, PhD (FAU USP), IABsp representative at OUCFL.
André Dal'Bó — urban architect, professor at FAU/Design-USP, researcher associated with the Université Paris Nanterre.
Nelson Brissac — philosopher, PhD (Sorbonne), organizer of Arte/Cidade. Samira Rodrigues — urban architect, master's degree (FAU USP), IABsp representative on the CMH and the ZEIS Council; advisor to CAU/SP (ATHIS).
Cristiane Farah Kairalla — educator, specialist in education, art and popular culture, and environmental education.
Residents and leaders of Jardim Panorama

Agenda (events open to the public)

OCTOBER 14, 2025 – OCA AUDITORIUM (IBIRAPUERA PARK)

A day of debates and presentations that seek to situate the territories within the context of the redesign of the metropolis, discussing government management projects and the importance of social participation in defining public policies.

10am to 1pm – Morning 

Sustainability in projects for the urbanization of precarious settlements – Viviane Rubio (FAU Mackenzie).

Hydrographic basin notebook: Pirajuçara stream basin – André Sosnoski (FCTH).

The community in the construction of projects and public policies

Introduction – Garibaldi Santos / Renata Alves dos Santos and Gilvan Oliveira – Union of Residents and Commerce of Paraisópolis / Joades Arruda Silva – Union of Jardim Colombo / Maura da Conceição Pereira da Silva – Porto Seguro Community Association

art + architecture + urban planning

Projects on slopes and banks – Marcos Boldarini, Maurício Adinolfi

Panorama Lab – Felipe Brait, David Da Paz, Milena Durante

Registration can be done here.

2pm to 5pm – Afternoon

Application of SuDS for flood mitigation in Paraisópolis – Renato Anelli (FAU Mackenzie), Thamires Souza (FAU Mackenzie), Luciano A. Silva (Univ. São Judas Tadeu).

Drainage in hillside areas – Afonso Castro, Jéssica Fernandes (FAU Mackenzie)

Paulo Pellegrino (FAU USP) – Drainage projects in the Pinheiros River Basin

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OCTOBER 15, 2025 – IABSP (BENTO FREITAS STREET, 306 – REPUBLIC)

Discussions will continue, focusing on institutional relationships and project developments, reinforcing the exchange of experiences and collective construction among different actors and territories. There will also be presentations of artistic projects, paving the way for interventions in Jardim Panorama.

Morning

Paraisópolis Workshop – coordination: Denis Oliveira de Souza Neves (ArqCoop+), Afonso Castro, Jessica Fernandes (FAU Mackenzie).

Representatives of Paraisópolis, Jardim Colombo and Porto Seguro

Facilitators: Laryssa Kruger (FAU USP, Insper City Center), Heloisa Escudeiro (Mackenzie / FAU USP, Insper City Center) and Juan Sebastian Bustamante (University of Medellín, Colombia).

Panorama by residents – Welton Oliveira, Carolina, Marcos

Afternoon – 1:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Urgent Panorama! Caroline and Welton (Jd. Panorama Favela Residents' Association)

Participatory processes, removals and the Panorama Garden at OUC Faria Lima – Cristina Wehba, Christiane Kairalla, Debora Bruno, André Dal´Bó

Jardim Panorama by residents – Caroline, Diego, Welton, Dé, and other residents – A report on the history and memories of the neighborhood.

Jardim Panorama: a history of conflicts – Mariana Fix (FAU USP)

Joaquim Campolim (FFLCH) – The capitalist production of space on the margins of formality: the Jd. Panorama favela

The banks of the Pinheiros River: the Panorama and the New Pinheiros River project – Nelson Brissac

Art, infrastructure and real estate speculation – Guilherme Wisnik (FAU USP);

Panorama and policy for favelas in São Paulo – Councilwoman Keit Lima

Chat with director Alexandre Leco Wahrhaftig and screening of the film PANORAMA (2021, 66 min)

The program also includes:

OCTOBER 16, 2025 – VISIT TO THE PARAISÓPOLIS COMPLEX

Meeting with communities at Legado Paraisópolis, Melchior Giola Street.

OCTOBER 19, 2025 – VISIT TO THE PANORAMA LAB PROJECT IN THE PANORAMA GARDEN

Closing event in the territory, with video mapping, participatory dynamics and a major event by the Panorama LAB collective.

Pantanal Action presents projects and activities developed in neighborhoods located in the Tietê River basin in the eastern zone of São Paulo (Vila Nova União, Jardim Lapenna, and Jardim Helena), collectively known as the Pantanal, an area subject to periodic flooding and the subject of several public administration projects. It revisits a project initially developed by ZL Vórtice, coordinated by Nelson Brissac, now in partnership with professors from FAU and EE Mackenzie, and coordinated by Afonso Castro.

10am to 1pm – Table 1
Readings and mapping of this critical territory, a history of socio-environmental transformations and projects developed in the area.

Opening – Nelson Brissac / Afonso Castro

Union of Vila Nova – Renato Daud (CDHU), Paulo Santiago (NUA)

Helena Garden – Afonso Virgillis / Bruno Pecini (EE Mackenzie), Luciano Silva (USJT)

Lapena Garden – Denis Neves / Mari Anna Firmino (ArqCoop+), Fabiano Tock (Tide Setubal)

Metropolitan Borders – Carmem Silva (MSTC)

2pm to 5pm – Table 2
Innovative drainage and urbanization solutions will be presented, as well as guidelines and methodologies developed by universities and various government agencies (FCTH, SMVMA, SDUH). The focus will be on sociotechnical solutions developed with residents and new public policy parameters.

Opening – Marcos Monteiro (SIURB Secretary)

Modular urban typologies – Mirtes Luciani (SDUH)

Green Plans – Ligia Pinheiro (SVMA)

Drainage notebooks – Antonia Guglielmi (SIURB) / André Sosnoski (FCTH)

Green Infrastructure – Elisa Ramalho Rocha (USJT)

Guidelines for urban rainwater management – Luiz F. Orsini Yazaki (Consultant)

Free

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In addition to the Debate Forum, Ação Pantanal includes several activities:

Guided tours of the three neighborhoods that make up the Pantanal area.
26/09 – Vila Nova União
September 30th – Helena Garden
07/10 – Lapenna Garden

10/10 – USP’s MariAntônia Center and Mackenzie’s Experimental Site

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The Means of Production debate explores how architectural knowledge is produced through a variety of media—drawing, film, publications, meetings, models, artworks, and building materials—and how these forms shape not only architecture but also the communities and imaginaries surrounding it. Going beyond conventional design processes, the guest speakers consider methods of play, experimentation, and collective participation as vital tools for reimagining material production. In addition to presenting design processes and the trajectories of Jane Hall, Felipe Carnevalli, Mariana Meneghetti, and curator Marcella Arruda, the panel questions how creative and collaborative approaches can challenge dominant narratives of progress and, instead, prioritize care, resilience, and social justice. Architectures for a warming world express themselves through social sculptures, editorial projects, spatial interventions, and alliances with movements and communities, in collaborative, experimental, and experiential processes.

Jane Hall

The first recipient of the British Council's Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship and a founding member of the architectural collective Assemble, winner of the 2015 Turner Prize. Jane completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art in London, where her research examined the legacy of modernist architects in Brazil and the United Kingdom in the immediate post-war period. Jane is Director of Architectural Studies at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, and a Bye-Fellow at King's College, University of Cambridge, specializing in the intersections of gender and architecture. Jane is the author of three books on the subject: Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women, Woman Made, and Making Space.

Felipe Carnevalli

A designer and architect, he graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and holds a master's degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the same institution. He is co-editor of PISEAGRAMA and organizer of Cosmopolíticas editoriales, a research and development platform for editorial projects that seeks to create spaces for encounters between worlds through books. He also conducts research, courses, workshops, and seminars on books, publications, and editorial design in independent contexts that amplify voices, points of view, histories, and cultures marginalized by the mainstream.

Mariana Meneghetti

Interdisciplinary architect and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Master in Architecture – Theory and History of Design (2021) from PUC-Rio, with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Urbanism (2013). Continuing Education in Literature, Art and Contemporary Thought (2018) and the Foundations of Arts Course at EAV Parque Lage (2011). She is a co-founder of Entre, a group with which she investigates architecture and urban transformations through verbal accounts. She co-authored the publications "8 Reactions for the Aftermath" (Rio Books, 2019) and "Entre: Interviews with Architects" (Vianna and Mosley, 2013). She participated in the research for "Muros de Ar" (Walls of Air) – the Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale; the 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale; and the 13th Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale.

Marcella Arruda

A transdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher from São Paulo, currently based in Rio de Janeiro, Marcella holds a master's degree in urban planning from PROURB-UFRJ (Undergraduate Program in Urban Planning), a degree in Architecture and Urbanism from Escola da Cidade-SP, and a degree in Interactive Media Design from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (Netherlands). Through interventions, performances, social sculptures, curation of cultural encounters, and political-pedagogical programs, Marcella investigates engagement: the relationship between body and environment in the symbolic construction of agency and belonging. She is president of the Institute A Cidade Precisa de Você (The City Needs You), which focuses on activating and improving urban public spaces to create more just and sustainable cities. She is also a co-founder of the Brazilian Network of Collaborative Urbanism and co-curator of the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial (EXTREMOS).

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The combination of experiences and construction techniques around the world is making earthen houses increasingly economical, sustainable and beautiful!

These techniques and research are spread throughout the world. Here we have a glimpse of France, which, through Craterre/ENSAG, has a postgraduate program dedicated exclusively to earthen architecture and construction. A glimpse of other parts of the world, including Africa, our sister continent, where several techniques originated and blended with many others already used by the indigenous peoples of Brazil.

The contemporary Brazilian works on display here demonstrate the versatility of land use. The MST (Municipal Workers' Movement) mobilizes collective efforts to build earthen buildings in settlements. And some residences help break some of the paradigms still prevalent in Brazil. The houses can be high-end or nondescript, simply appropriate to their context. In short, earth is everywhere, being used in a wide variety of ways.

We've come together here to spread this knowledge as much as possible. There's no major industry interested in this topic, so there's no advertising. Land is almost always free. It's right under our feet. We're still few, but we're very confident in what we're doing. Not only is the house healthier, but we're emitting much less CO2 during and after construction. We, architects and builders, are extremely responsible for the planet's degradation. The construction industry is one of the largest contributors to the planet's CO2 emissions. It's up to us to decide which construction materials best suit the urgent need to change this situation.

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The session invites debate on the strategic role of schools in minimizing the impact of socio-environmental crises, especially the climate crisis, on children and the entire school community, through the adaptation of infrastructure through the combination of the implementation of Nature-Based Solutions, bioclimatic strategies and the naturalization of outdoor spaces.

Because schools are numerous and well-distributed throughout the region, they play a central role in the lives of children and their families. They are part of everyday life, serve as places for community interaction, are part of the social safety net, and are centers for the dissemination of knowledge and culture. Extreme events, such as heat waves, landslides, droughts, and floods, increasingly frequent and intense, have disrupted educational activities, harming not only the teaching-learning process but also the physical and emotional health of students and education professionals.

While we need to consider actions that anticipate worst-case scenarios, we must also prepare for the impacts of climate change on the daily life of schools. In this sense, Nature presents itself as a fundamental ally. It contributes not only to the regeneration of school spaces—making them greener and more resilient—but also to reducing the lack of Nature in children's lives, fostering their integral development and the experience of a vibrant, critical curriculum based on the ethics of care. These benefits converge to strengthen the guarantee of the right to a quality education that promotes health and well-being.

This session will be attended by:
Jerá Guarani, indigenous leader and activist of the Guarani Mbya ethnic group

Pedro Linhares, General Coordinator of Educational Infrastructure at the National Fund for Education Development (FNDE)

Rachel Trajber, coordinator of the Cemaden Education Program at the National Center for Monitoring and Alerts for Natural Disasters (CEMADEN)

Luiz Miguel Martins Garcia, president of the National Union of Municipal Education Directors (UNDIME)
Jaume Barnada, architect and urban planner, coordinator of the Climate Refuges project, in Barcelona.

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We are the “Labya-Yala. Laboratory of Decolonial Studies of FAU-USP”, implemented in the Department of History and Aesthetics of the Project – AUH, started as a study group in 2019, together with the extension program “Quintas Ameríndias”, coordinated since then by Prof. Dr. Renata Martins and Prof. Luciano Migliaccio, within the scope of the FAPESP Young Researcher Project Cifrado Baroque (2016-2021), and later of the FAPESP Young Researcher Project 2 “Barroco Açu” (2022-2027).

The laboratory's name derives from the expression "Abya-Yala," originating from the Kuna language (of the indigenous peoples of Panama and Colombia), referring to the American continent. "Mature Earth," "Mother Earth," or "Living Earth" are some possible translations to replace the term "America" adopted by European colonizers. In this sense, our decolonial approach seeks to include and strengthen the protagonism of Amerindian cultures, as well as the African diasporas and exchanges with Asia, in the fields of Art History, Architecture, and Territories. Therefore, our interventions at FAU-USP, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, are transversal and transdisciplinary, permanently incorporating the knowledge of indigenous, traditional, and peripheral peoples into teaching, culture, and outreach.

These activities involve partner projects, such as "Amazônia Revelada" (Revealed Amazon) or the African and Afro-Brazilian educational kit from the MAE-USP educational center; associated researchers and collaborators from various disciplines and faculties, from Brazil and abroad, with a focus on the Amazon; FAPESP, CNPq, and PUB USP-Amazônia scholarship holders at FAU-USP; FAU-USP in the Amazon; and unfunded research at FAU-USP, at the Scientific Initiation, Master's, Doctorate, and Postdoctorate levels; as well as researchers and students from USP and other universities.

Thus, as a continuation of the Abya-Yala and Global Asia study groups, and the Manis "Women and Arts" group, Labya-Yala promotes decolonial and countercolonial approaches at FAU-USP, from the perspective of the Global South, especially the Pan-Amazon. It works to renew existing lines of research and open new ones by promoting the protagonism and knowledge of traditional communities in the history of arts, architecture, and territory. In undergraduate education, for example, new courses were introduced at FAU-USP, focusing on Amerindian arts, African arts, and Asian arts in a global context, as well as "Amazonias of All Times: Arts, Architectures, Territories."

An essential part of our work is the "Amerindian Thursdays," a series of events that addresses transdisciplinary themes related to the knowledge of indigenous peoples, with a focus on the Amazon. In the "Amerindian Thursdays in the Oca. Amazons from the Margins to the Extremes: Labya-Yala. Laboratory of Decolonial Studies at FAU-USP," which will take place within the scope of the "Indigenous, Riverine, and Urban Amazon" course of the Graduate Program in Architecture (PPGAU/FAU-USP), with the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPA), the Graduate Program in Architecture (PPGDS) of the Emilio Goeldi Museum (MPEG), and Stony Brook University (SUNY), in collaboration with the "Modern Amazon: Utopias and Dystopias" course of the Graduate Program in Architecture (PPGD/UFAM), we will present at the 14th International Architecture Biennial of São Paulo the discussions and partnerships resulting from years of work by the laboratory for inclusive and decolonized architectural education.

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The panel will present the Black Women for Climate Mentorship, a result of the partnership between GIZ and the National Secretariat for Peripheries, of the Ministry of Cities, as part of the Periferia Viva Program.

The event aimed to strengthen peripheral urban leaders, protagonists of the transformation and sustainable development of their territories. They received training, discussed measures to improve environmental conditions and combat the impacts of climate change in their territories, held strategic meetings with the federal government, and created a support network among themselves, exchanging experiences and knowledge.

To share their experiences during the mentoring, the following will be at the table: Ana Claudia Barbosa (leader of the Terra Prometida Occupation - São Paulo/SP), Bizza Araújo (Coordinator at the MTST Solitary Kitchen in Sol Nascente - Brasília/DF), Dayane Monteiro (leader of the Aratu Collectors Club - João Pessoa/PB), Lília Melo (leader of the Terra Firme Film Club - Belém/PA) and Simone Sigale (Co-coordinator of the Quebrada Women Collective - Belo Horizonte/MG).

The Black Women for Climate Mentoring program was implemented within the scope of the Support for the National Urban Development Agenda in Brazil (ANDUS) Project, a partnership between the Ministry of Cities (MCID), the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA), and the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) of Germany as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). It is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH within the context of the Brazil-Germany Cooperation.

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

Schedule

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm – Opening table

2:30 pm to 3:00 pm – Visit to the Chinese exhibition at Oca

3:00 PM to 5:00 PM – Discussion round with Chinese and Brazilian architects

Guests: Pablo Hereñu (H+F Architects), Catherine Otondo (Base Urbana), Marcos Cereto (curator / UFAM)

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Panel and debate with Eva Pfannes and Sylvain Hartenberg (Ooze – Netherlands/India), Kareena Kochery and Samidha Patil (urbz – India), Duplantier Martin (France) and mediation by Claudia Visoni.

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Round table to discuss documents produced.

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

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

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Piratininga Waterfront Park (POP) represents a milestone in urban planning and environmental management in Brazil, serving as both an urban public park and a living laboratory of sustainability. Its innovative design is based on the adoption of Nature-Based Solutions (NbS), a strategy that combines green infrastructure with ecological restoration to aid in the recovery of Piratininga Lagoon.
To this end, three large constructed wetland systems were implemented, capable of naturally filtering water from the urban basins of the Cafubá River, the Arrozal River, and the Jacaré River. These systems occupy an area of approximately 35,000 m² spread over two linear kilometers along the lagoon. They treat water from the main contributing rivers, as well as surface runoff and drainage from neighborhoods, reducing the input of sediment and pollutants into the water body and promoting the gradual recovery of the lagoon's environmental quality.

Associated with this solution, there is also the restoration of Atlantic Forest connectors in surrounding wetlands, which reinforce ecological connectivity, expand habitats for local fauna, and strengthen ecosystem services provided to the population.
In addition to environmental restoration, the park was also designed as a space for social and cultural integration. The Ecocultural Center, a facility dedicated to environmental education and cultural activities, seeks to raise awareness of the importance of preservation.

The Park also includes cycle paths, piers for fishing and contemplation, leisure areas and sports centers, constituting a multifunctional infrastructure that promotes health, mobility, tourism and quality of life.

The POP's overall objective is ambitious: to restore environmental systems and rehabilitate the area surrounding Piratininga Lagoon, enhancing its scenic heritage and promoting urban sustainability. Its specific objectives include reversing the lagoon's environmental degradation; implementing NBS for water treatment; stimulating biodiversity and preserving native flora and fauna. More than just a public project, the POP is a concrete example of the potential for reconciling urban infrastructure, environmental restoration, and social inclusion. With its implementation, an area that was previously a source of socio-environmental exclusion has been transformed into a context for environmental justice. Its existence reinforces the need for integrated urban thinking, with a public management process based on systemic thinking, creating solutions that increase city resilience and offer direct benefits to the population. This project is a benchmark in innovation and socio-environmental justice, transforming a historically degraded space into a hub for ecological regeneration, community gathering, and cultural appreciation. Caminho Niemeyer was conceived as a cultural and landscape axis in the city of Niterói, including the Teatro Popular, the Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.

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Opening conference of the 14th São Paulo International Architecture Biennial with Kongjian Yu (Peking University – China).

Mediation by Renato Anelli (curator)

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Held on 09/19/25, at 6:00 p.m., at Oca, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, SP

In this session, we will explore two projects that demonstrate the importance of rehabilitation and innovation in distinct contexts. The first project, carried out on mountain pastures in Switzerland, presents a unique approach to preserving cultural heritage and landscapes. By rehabilitating abandoned farm ruins, the project seeks to protect the landscape and restore the local identity. With a collaborative and voluntary approach, the project involved the local community and resulted in a creative and effective solution for heritage preservation. Sceru e Giumello is an example of how architecture can be used to preserve the memory and identity of a place. Rehabilitating ruins not only protects the landscape but also provides an opportunity to reflect on the history and culture of the region.

The second project, developed in Portugal, highlights a participatory basic housing operation that combines energy efficiency and community involvement. The project was designed with and for the community living in deficient conditions and resulted in the construction of 79 highly energy-efficient homes. At a cost of approximately 50,000 euros per home, the project offers a sustainable and innovative solution for basic social housing. The project is an example of how partnerships between the public and private sectors can result in effective solutions to complex problems. Community participation and prioritization of energy efficiency are fundamental to the project's sustainability.

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