The "Rehearsal for After" workshop involves the critical and creative reuse of discarded materials from construction projects and scenographic assemblies, as well as elements brought by participants. This will be the first in-person event for SuB, a community of architects from different regions of Brazil who meet periodically to discuss the broader field of architecture, the arts, and professional practice. These meetings provide members with the opportunity for dialogue between diverse professionals outside the strictly academic environment. This is the result of an initiative by architects who, after completing their doctorates, recognized a gap in the dialogue between professionals in academia and those working in the practice of the profession and other fields of architecture.<\/p>\n
The overall goal of the project is not only to experiment with constructions in extreme scenarios and reuse existing structures, but, above all, to create as a community. The Workshop will offer visitors to the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennial the opportunity to meet others, not only by sharing their opinions in lectures or discussion groups, but also by taking home what they collectively build. Similarly, in recent months, the SuB Community has been promoting conversations focused on current and pressing themes, with professionals from different fields within architecture, many of whom work in the broader field of art and architecture.<\/p>\n
Thus, on this occasion, through the manipulation of discarded objects, we hope the workshop will lead participants through a sensory, reflective, constructive, and collaborative experience, activating imaginations about how to inhabit the worlds to come. By the end, we will have creatively rehearsed, in the face of precariousness and scarcity, how to transform the uses and meanings of available objects in order to recreate the notion of individual\/community. Against the backdrop of the climate and social emergency, we will rehearse the limits and possibilities of designing through improvisation and discomfort, questioning the implications of a collective body in the constructions of the After. By experimenting as a group with minimal constructed forms, participants activate a sense of cooperation, a fundamental capacity for rebuilding the idea of community in times of crisis. The After that is rehearsed here is based on emergency and an invitation to collective imaginations and possible futures, built together.<\/p>\n