Earth Works (toward a reparation architecture), with Paulo Tavares

Drawing from past and recent visual, spatial, and curatorial projects that deal with the Earth, in this activity of the public program of Organismo Year One, Brazilian architect, author, and educator Paulo Tavares who recently published La naturaleza política de la selva (The Political Nature of the Forest, Caja Negra, 2024), will explore the tentative concept of “reparation architecture.” 

According to Tavares “Reparation Architecture is not a theme, it is a form of engagement. It is not a qualifier as in ‘social architecture,’ but a position in relation to architecture as knowledge and practice. As such, it can take many forms across the trans-disciplinary fields where architectural thought and action manifest, from design to curating, from planning to publishing, from advocacy to building. Imagining a future in which healing and rebounding society means recovering land and restoring the climate, we may prompt ideas for the repair of human and nonhuman communities through the means and medias of architecture, drawing new material and imaginary bounds between us and Earth. If our most urgent political task today is re-building the world otherwise, reparations constitute a central question to architecture practice across its trans-scalar, trans-disciplinary, and trans-media manifestations.” 

Tavares' presentation will be followed by a conversation with the architect, curator and researcher Maite Borjabad.

Earth Works (Toward a Reparation Architecture) is an activity of Organismo. Year One in collaboration with Caja Negra Editora.

Thanks to the Madrid City Council for providing the space of the Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de la Junta de Arganzuela.