Interspecies speaks of the human desire to understand, connect with, and coexist with other species. The exhibition unfolds in three stages: approaching, cohabiting, and conspiring. Architecture is celebrated beyond its utilitarian function, embracing its relational and critical capacities. As materials, techniques, and modes of spatial intervention always shape connections between places, people, and beings, architecture’s “users” are understood to include humans, birds, plants, minerals and others.

Therefore, attention is given to the tectonic, economic, social, and ecosystemic variables of architecture. Interspecies evokes the Romantic spirit insofar as it celebrates subjectivity and imagination, and values poetic, artistic, and philosophical knowledge alongside scientific and technical knowledge. However, it situates this spirit in the present—a time marked by post-humanist philosophy, capitalist realism, and an undeniable climate crisis. Rather than an appreciation of nature from a distance, it proposes a sense of complicity and camaraderie from within, embracing a position of interdependence and reciprocity.

Research Team: Anna Bertmark, Fernanda Costa, Valentina Demarchi, Bernardo Gaeiras, Mathilde Gouin, Katerina Iglezaki, Carlos Pastor, Mariana Simões (Bauhaus of the Seas Research Group)

Exhibition includes works of MAIA students created during the Permeable Species studio led by BUREAU.

More details here.

Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisboa
Portugal