In the Anthropocene, it is urgent that the field of architecture
is able to think and act in face of social, environmental, political and economic problems resulting from the indiscriminate exploitation
of the planet and its inhabitants
. When designing a space, infinite others are designed in parallel – from extraction
and manufacturing to disposal
, the processes involved in building and their places of origin and destination are countless and most of the time absolutely dissociated.
RUÍNA understands the field of architecture as a fundamental means of tensioning these issues and proposing alternatives
to the current model of production currently based on the linearity of processes to move towards circular
models of existence.
We start from ruins – the primordial framework of architecture – as a driving force for what can provide important reflections of other approaches to what it means to think and do architecture in our time
. Other epistemologies of thought and practice seem increasingly necessary for our field of activity, which critically pay attention to the past
in order to build possible futures
in the present.