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Residency on Indigenous Artifacts and Museology

Artistic residency and meetings with the artists Olinda Tupinambá, Lilly Baniwa and Ziel Karapotó, in dialogue with the museum collections of the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Museum of Natural History and Science and the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra, as well as the Torre do Tombo Portuguese National Archive, among others. […]

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Cultivated Amazonia: Indigenous Knowledge in the Construction of Biodiversity and Ecosystems

The idea that much of the Amazonian forests have remained untouched throughout human history has long fascinated naturalists, policymakers, journalists, and natural and social scientists worldwide. For many centuries, Western science overlooked the contributions of Indigenous peoples to the shaping of Amazonian ecosystems, and conservation efforts have largely ignored the vital role these populations play […]

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Utopia and Tropicality: Ideologies of Nature, Science, People, and Politics in Thinking About and Inhabiting Amazonia

Amazonia was originally described as a land without Law, Creed, or King—essentially a social tabula rasa upon which the virtues or economies of European societies could be inscribed, their deficiencies corrected, or sovereignty implemented through the creation of new kinds of polities. While not widely recognized, Amazonia has been a fertile ground for social and planning experiments […]

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Exhibition – Forest Cities: The Amazon Between Ruins and Resilience

This photography exhibition examines the ruins of extractive cities in the Amazon from both human and more-than-human perspectives.   Photographs: Christian Braga Curatorship: Christian Braga, Danielle Heberle Viegas and Patrícia Vieira In partnership with the Resilient Forest Cities project and Campus Anthropocene Goethe Institute, Rio de Janeiro December 2024 More information about the event

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A Path Towards Reparation: Yasuní and Civilizational Crisis

A dialogue about the Amazon and the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador in times of crisis, emphasizing the issues of environmental crisis and climate collapse, where different social problems such as inequality, racism, anthropocentrism and colonialism intersect and how this impacts Indigenous territories. The speakers reflect upon the confrontation of positions regarding what the Amazon […]

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Roda Configurações de Mundo

Roundtable about different views of the world, with special emphasis on Indigenous cosmologies. Participants: Kaka Werá, Cebaldo Inawinapi, Verenilde Pereira, Juan Carlos Galeano, Francisco Soares, Carla Santos, Carola Saavedra, Patrícia Vieira Moderation: Marta Lança, Ellen Lima e Candela Varas  October 19, 11:00 am Tenda Vila Literária, Casa Floresta  In collaboration with FOLIO, Óbidos International Literary Festival

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