MAKING WAVES
15/11/2025
Next Saturday, an important event will take place for one of the European research projects that we have been coordinating for a couple of years. Join us for the culminating event of the Bauhaus of the Seas Sails project taking place on 15 November 2025 at Ocean Space in Venice. This one-day conference and exhibition will showcase innovative, inclusive, and sustainable design solutions for coastal areas, developed through collaborative efforts by 18 academic, cultural, and territorial partners across 7 pilot locations in Europe. Over three years this project brings together 18 partners across Europe and features 7 demonstrator pilots, each testing regenerative solutions for coastal environments with countless collaborations with local artists and activities. The final conference is organised and hosted by our cultural partner and pilots leader TBA21, communication leader Magellan Circle, and project coordinator Interactive Technologies Institute (Instituto Superior Técnico) with the support of the entire consortium and pilots partners. The full day event will feature presentations from leading artists, architects, scientists, and community activists, highlighting the project’s impact and future directions. Attendees will have the opportunity engage with interactive exhibits and join discussions on the role of design in fostering regenerative coastal environments. + STREAM the full […]
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Ca.Ca.
film #biennale
118 · Ca.Ca. (Cannibal Carnival) Foodscapes, Episode 1: Digestion ABSTRACT*Spanish Pavilion, 18 Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 We usually understand digestion to be process in which our digestive system transforms food into substances that our bodies can assimilate. But this is just a negligible part of all of the digestive processes in which we participate and in which we are entangled. While our stomachs and intestines extract nutrients, many other bodies, in many other places, and at many other times, are incessantly digesting in many different ways, comprising a colossal waste-processing ecosystem which paradoxically tends to remain invisible, whether in its physical, symbolic or normative dimension. Defecation may seem to put an end to the process of digestion. However, this action is nothing more than a moment in which our digestive apparatuses get connected to a colossal tentacular network where our bodies expand their cyborg condition and where the wastes undertake an endless journey, crossing a multiple infrastructural geography that never ceases to digest. In Madrid, the sanitation system encompasses 15,317 km of pipes, 5,791 kilometers of sewers, 34 water mains, 35 storm water ponds and 8 waste water treatment stations, all conforming a sort of invisible biotechnological layer disseminated over […]
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SITLL REMAINS
installation #microbialtimes
142 · STILL REMAINS Architectures for microorganisms, MNCARS, Madrid ABSTRACTProject and research for "Notes for a Time Apart", MNCARS, Madrid. The microbiome of our guts, mouths, armpits, or genitals are among the most private landscapes. There lie our interspecies identities made of bacteria, fungi, viruses who live parallel lives adapting, resisting, and labouring our 24/7 lives. They endure the hormones and chemicals secreted by our anxious selves who sweat before deadlines. They cope with the stimulants, amphetamines, and cognitive enhancers consumed to deal with the stress of non-stop tasks and to-do lists. They strive to adapt to our pharmacologic bodies cast by our professions that are tuned to work more and more efficiently, all the time. This installation conceived by elii [architecture office] and Orkan Telhan for the program Notes for a Time Apart intends to provide a glimpse of this invisible community through a series of leftovers. We invite a series of professionals to the museum to share food during their work breaks. The participants eat, chat, and ask each other: “What do you usually do at this time?”, “How do you deal with your stress?”, “How much coffee do you drink?”, “What do you do when you […]
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MICROBIAL FRUITS of ISTANBUL
Biennial #empathyrevisited
129 · MICROBIAL FRUITS of istanbul New rituals in civics to revisit empathy ABSTRACT5th Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul Microbial Fruits of Istanbul is a platform that narrates the complex histories of Istanbul’s community gardens (called bostans) from the microbes’ point of view. This is a garden of gardens, a cross between a soil microbiology laboratory and a fruit tree showcasing microbial cultures collected in this historic gardens for more than 1500 years. Drawing its inspiration from the kiosks scattered around the streets of Istanbul, the MFoI platform stands in the middle of Özgürlük Park like a strange figure piquing the curiosity of passers-by, inviting them to meet these other “neighbors” in the city. MFoI is a meeting-place for humans and microbes, a nexus between History and bio-geo-histories; between the Istanbul molded by generations of its human inhabitants and the other, parallel Istanbuls that exist under our feet, in the soil, and that (as Isabelle Stengers put it) are the “product of a history of co-evolution whose first craftsmen and true authors throughout were the innumerable populations of microorganisms.” When the kiosk opens, unfolding its roof, a chatty robotic parrot tells stories in the form of fables written for […]
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CYBORG GARDEN / IMNA
exhibition #cyborggarden
119 · jardín cyborg / imna Strategies for adapting to climate change ABSTRACTCuratorship and display design for the exhibition ‘Cyborg Garden – Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives’, Matadero Madrid “Your attention please. You are now entering the Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives. A platform for generating knowledge and artworks as a means to address the challenges presented by the climate crisis in the 21st century. A place for communicating with other species, for learning from ants and many-headed slime mould and for talking with humans who have not as yet been born. We invite you, firstly, to a preview of the prototypes of the future Cyborg Garden now being developed by a team of artists, designers, architects, scientists and specialists in various fields and which will soon be planted in Matadero Madrid. After that, you will be able to visit the exhibition Eco-visionaries. Art for a Planet in a State of Emergency, in which over 40 creators tackle climate change through art. We also encourage you to take part in the various activities that will be held in this mutant space over the coming four months. Welcome.” - The exhibition ‘Cyborg Garden – Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives’ shows […]
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ECOVISIONARIES
Exhibition #ecovisionaries
118 · ECOVISIONARIES 'Art for a planet in emergency', Matadero Madrid ABSTRACT * Ecovisionaries, exhibition design for the 'ECO-VISIONARIES: Art for a planet in emergency' exhibition at the Matadero Madrid. Shortlisted - FAD Award, Category - Interior Design (2020). Exhibition design for the 'ECO-VISIONARIES: Art for a planet in emergency' exhibition at the Matadero Madrid ECO-VISIONARIES brings together the work of more than forty artists and architects who reflect on the urgency of the environmental crisis the planet is experiencing. Curated by Pedro Gadanho and Mariana Pestana, this is a living exhibition that is updated at each location by adding the works of new artists to the exhibition. On this occasion, it will be featured at the Matadero, Madrid's centre for contemporary creation, under the subtitle 'Art for a planet in emergency', along with an exhibition called 'Jardín Cyborg - Instituto Mutante de Narrativas Ambientales' (Cyborg Garden - Mutant Institute of Environmental Narratives’). Together, both exhibitions feature am ensemble of works by contemporary artists that address climate change as a crucial challenge of our time. As regards the expository conceptualization for Matadero Madrid, the project is based on the use of the remains found in Hall 16: ECO-VISIONARIES unfolds […]
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