Atmospheres from Below repurposes open-source seismic networks to testify to the slow violence of illegal gold mining in Yanomami territory. Mercury seeps into rivers, crops, and bodies, an ecocide becoming genocide, often without visible proof. By translating underground tremors into sound, soil-filled containers tremble and release golden dust. Instruments of extraction become instruments of resistance, proposing a decolonised way of sensing harm before it surfaces.
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We Will Design 2026 — HELLO, DARKNESS embraces design as a tool for subverting hierarchies and weaving together ecologies and technologies to imagine the cities and societies of the future.
It is an invitation to recognize the abyss — political, ecological, aesthetic — we’re living in, not as a place of fear, but as a space of regeneration, resistance, and imagination. Darkness here is not absence, but a fertile condition that embraces invisible gestures, marginalized knowledge, and luminous forms of resistance.