Que tipo de crianças somos nós? Um caso para o cultivo vegetal da humanidade

This conference with Michael Marder is part of the ‘Gineceu & Estigma’ section of ping! — Programa de Incursão à Galeria and will be moderated by Mariana Pestana.

Michael Marder is Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz. His work spans the fields of environmental philosophy and ecological thought, political theory, and phenomenology. Marder is associate editor of Telos magazine and author of 16 monographs, such as Dump Philosophy (2020), Political Categories (2019), Energy Dreams (2017), The Philosopher’s Plant: An Intellectual Herbarium (2014) and Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013).

Mariana Pestana is a Portuguese architect and curator. She co-founded the collective The Decorators, with whom she developed spatial interventions and performative situations in the public realm, with the aim to test alternative futures for specific places and people. She recently curated the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial and co-curated the exhibitions The Future Starts Here (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, 2018) and Eco Visionaries: Art and Architecture After the Anthropocene (MAAT, Portugal, 2018; Matadero, Spain, 2019; and Royal Academy, UK, 2019).

Photography: Renato Cruz Santos