Vol. 32 No. 51 (2026): Ruin in regeneration
Art and architecture share a long common history, having separated into autonomous disciplines only in the modern era, amid the specialization and increasing autonomy of fields of knowledge in Western society as a whole. In times of social and climate emergencies, when it is urgent to nurture the “arts of living among the ruins” of this very modernity that gave rise to the current catastrophic state, we must revisit this relationship in a renewed effort to regenerate the territories and ways of life devastated by extractivism.
As Donna Haraway suggests, interdisciplinary and intercultural collaborations are fundamental to joining forces with the goal of making the so-called Anthropocene as short and fleeting as possible. We thus present researches that explores ways in which the arts, architecture, and other fields of knowledge from the humanities and biological sciences can collaborate productively to repair the ruins—whether concrete or metaphorical, material, ecological, social, or symbolic—that abound in our landscapes today.
