XII International Architecture curatorial open call
Biennale of São Paulo FROM THE POLITICAL CITY TO COSMOPOLITICAL ALLIANCES summary of the proposal: How can architecture, with its ability to produce subjectivities, engender new ways of existence capable of activating cosmopolitical alliances, multiplicities, and magic? How can it harness the energy of a city divided by the speculation of life? Architecture is a result of but also subject to a worldview that produced the concept of the City as the paradigm of the supremacy of certain cultures over others, especially of men over other living beings, the sovereignty of unicist - rationalist knowledge - over other interpretations of life: all the concrete sacred relations of knowledge, visions of the world, systematically expelled from the meaning attributed to constructive practices by Western civilization. In order to become a mangrove architecture, made fertile by the compositions of an urban ecosystem, we believe, we must pay attention to a cosmopolitics of places. To inhabit a land, this city, under the sign of difference, of multiplicities, as opposed to the universalizing and the anthropocentric, through practices of cultivating ways of existence that resist the forces of extermination of life. In the Guarani language, a tekoha is a place where one practices a way of existing which resists. We wish to compose an atlas of re-existences, moving from the political city to cosmopolitical alliances, where an ecological perspective is not dissociated from the composition of a city. We seek to activate the cosmopolitical imagination and its practices; its technologies, ‘technomagics,’ and the resonances between its varied territories.