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Entrevista a Ana María Durán Calisto
Commission for “Post-extractivist imaginaries. Ecotopias at the cultural limits of the global climate emergency. / Imaginarios post-extractivistas. Ecotopías en los límites culturales de la emergencia climática global,” Biennale di Venezia. Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. Arsenale di Venezia, (10 may. - 23. nov.) - Project byGabriel Visconti Stopello and Maximillian Nowotka (Eds.)
12/may/2025Interview (Chapter)
w/ Ana María Durán Calisto
This interview with Ana María Durán Calisto probes the experimental, failed, and reimagined futures of Amazonian territorial design. We examine how aerial views—once instruments of conquest and extractivist planning—can also unearth buried Indigenous infrastructures and lifeways. Reflecting on immersive pedagogies with Siekopai communities, Durán Calisto points to the centrality of the chakra and cocha as ecological and epistemic units of planning, rooted in more-than-human relations. Amazonian highways and titling regimes emerge as technologies that fragment and decommunalize territory, raising the question: what forms of property, design, and governance persist when official plans are abandoned or collapse? Rather than lament the “cemetery of planning,” this conversation asks what might be exhumed—technologies, imaginaries, or cosmopolitical insights—from its ruins. Can architectural education and planning practices assimilate the rhythms, timescales, and values of the rainforest? And what if the jungle itself were the one planning? See more ↗