TRANS-Natures: climate fictions

TRANS-Natures will explore the many possible transfers between architecture, nature, and climate as strategic alliances. Climate change is a scientific fact, but the related narratives and social agendas are still under deep discussion. As stated by Emilio Santiago, climate change and environmentalist discourses are often perceived as a dead-end fait accompli, which seem to provide little room for action. We live in a key moment to lead a social transformation of enormous significance and responsibility. We need to create the space for more decentralized, simpler, locally based responses on climate change, reaching out to new audiences and envision novel adaptation skills.

We propose a workshop-seminar methodology that combines critical research and speculative practice to revisit the concept of ecotopia, developing the hypothesis of a desirable near future in which architecture is assembled, mediated, and operated for ecosystem restoration. A scenario that reveals architecture, city and landscape as contested surfaces, trapped between the intangible patterns of well-being ratios and the relentless effects of climate change.

Collaboration with LINA fellows

“Shellskins” will try to reimagine material futures through speculative design, transforming shell waste into bio-based composites. 

The seminar bridges microscopic research and planetary scales, fostering climate-fiction narratives rooted in Solarpunk ideals.