More-than-human architecture for a world in transformation.

Thoughts think thoughts. Forms form futures.

Symbiocene Architecture Project

manifesto

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