The Means of Production debate explores how architectural knowledge is produced through a variety of media\u2014drawing, film, publications, meetings, models, artworks, and building materials\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n
Jane Hall<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Felipe Carnevalli<\/p>\n
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 Cosmopol\u00edticas 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.<\/p>\n
Mariana Meneghetti<\/p>\n
Interdisciplinary architect and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Master in Architecture \u2013 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) \u2013 the Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale; the 10th S\u00e3o Paulo Architecture Biennale; and the 13th Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale.<\/p>\n
Marcella Arruda<\/p>\n
A transdisciplinary artist, curator, and researcher from S\u00e3o 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 Voc\u00ea (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 S\u00e3o Paulo International Architecture Biennial (EXTREMOS).<\/p>\n
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