Indigenous peoples in Brazil have long protected tropical forests, yet the Yanomami face invasions and violence driven by illegal gold mining. Cannibal Gold frames mining as “cannibalism” that consumes land and futures, linking colonial extraction to today’s tech supply chains. By pairing a 16th-century British Museum artifact with mobile phone motherboards, it exposes the social and ecological cost of gold mining in the Amazon.
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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.