Symbiocene Architecture Project as a living, symbiotic system.
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Research context
Symbiocene Architecture Project is currently developed as a research proposal in dialogue with the LINA Architecture Platform.
About the project
Symbiocene Architecture Project is a research-based architectural project by Imma Bofill, exploring symbiotic, post-anthropocentric architecture through language, systems thinking and speculative design, aimed at provoking evolutionary shifts in architecture to move beyond sustainability towards genuine climate adaptation.
More-than-human architecture for a world in transformation.
Thoughts think thoughts. Forms form futures.
DETONATOR
Sustainability.
A slogan.
A nonsense.
A trap.
The word has been captured by capital.
Turned into fetish, emptied of meaning, sold as a solution.
A word that hides more than it reveals.
A word that paralyses architecture in the comfort of optimization.
DISCOVERY
But sustainability was never linear.
At its core lies the systemic.
It speaks of flows, interdependencies, feedback loops.
It contains the seed of change: complexity, entanglement, ecology.
REVELATION
Why are we stuck in the language of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus,
while the world collapses in flames and extinctions?
Because language itself is the cage.
Epistemology shapes practice.
Words trap thought.
And “sustainability” has become the perfect cage —
measurable, marketable, meaningless.
SEED
Yet inside this cage, the seed still breathes.
To free it we need new words, new systems of thought.
We need to shift the language of architecture:
from machine to symbiont,
from object to relation,
from product to process of becoming.
Let us become symbionts.
"Dans quel langage parlent les choses du monde pour que nous puissions nous entendre avec elles par contrat ?"
Michel Serres