The architect and researcher Paulo Tavares challenges the forest/city dichotomy in his study of landscapes of the Amazon rainforest and advocates decolonisation of architecture and design, and to promote practices that are rooted in the earth, as fruit of interaction between humans and non-humans, and that question the division between nature and culture.
Videos & Publications
Katherine A. High and Salvador Macip
Editing Humanity
World expert in gene therapy Katherine A. High and physician and writer Salvador Macip speak about the ways in which genome editing will affect the future of our species in a session that will open with CRISPR, a performance by the group of digital artists Bromo.
CCCB Interviews
Chris Ware and Laura Fernández
We’re celebrating the opening of the exhibition "Chris Ware. Drawing is Thinking" with a conversation between comic-book artist Chris Ware, talking about his career and his artistic language, and writer Laura Fernández.
Wi-Fi in the Amazonia: The Dilemma of Connectivity
Ferran Esteve
The Interaction Between Humans and Fire in a Changing World
Andrea Duane | Francisco Lloret
Paulo Tavares
Forest Architectures
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Alexandre Surrallés, Karen Shiratori and Gemma Orobitg
Transversal Connections: Resonances of Perspectivism
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski
The End as a Beginning: Worlds That Are to Come
Raki Ap
Guardians of the Forest
Davi Kopenawa and Ana Maria Machado
The Impact of the Encounter and the Ethnographic Pact
Listening to the Rainforest: Words of a Yanomami Wise Man
A Morning with Davi Kopenawa
Davi Kopenawa
Holding up the Sky: Words of Ancestral Wisdom
Daiara Tukano and Laura Pérez Gil
Indigenous Art and Women in the Visual Arts: Visions of an Ancestral Present-Future
Designing With Ancestrality
Andreu Belsunces
Writings of the Wild
Artistic Gestures in the Face of Climate Crisis
Paula Bruna and Gisela Torrents
Shelter
Ancestral Future
Bernardo Gutiérrez
Roser Vernet and Júlia Viejobueno
We Too Are Land. Knowledge for Inhabiting the Place
Presences
Conversation with Juan Francisco Valdez and Priscila Tapajowara
Nukuri kahtiro turi: the plant world
Talk with João Paulo Lima Barreto and Karen Shiratori
Claudi Carreras and Andrés Cardona advocate for a deeper understanding of Amazonian culture
As part of the exhibition “Amazons. The Ancestral Future”
Claudi Carreras, the exhibition’s curator, and Andrés Cardona, a photographer from Caquetá, Colombia, have undertaken extensive research and audiovisual documentation on the Amazonian region, which is now on display at the CCCB’s exhibition. In this conversation, they ...
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