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Forest Islands of our ecological diaspora: Imani Jaqueline Brown and Paulo Tavares

Houmas Plantation Cemetery. Photo by Imani Jacqueline Brown.

The session will feature works such as Forest Islands of Our Ecological Diaspora, The Holes in the Earth Mirror the Holes in Our Souls (and from Them We Can Grow Trees), If Toxic Air Is a Monument to Slavery, How Do We Take It Down?, and the essay‑manifesto Black Ecologies: An Opening, an Offering.

Paulo Tavares is an architect, author, and educator. His practice dwells at the frontiers between architecture, visual cultures and advocacy. Operating through multiple media, Tavares's projects have been featured in various exhibitions and publications worldwide, including Oslo Architecture Triennial, Istanbul Design Biennale, São Paulo Art Biennial, and the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. He is the author of books questioning the colonial legacies of modernity, including Des-Habitat (2019), Lucio Costa era Racista? (2022), and Derechos No-Humanos (2022) and La Naturaleza Politica de la Selva (2024). The curatorial project Terra, in collaboration with Gabriela de Matos, was awarded the Golden Lion for best national participation at La Biennale di Venecia 2023, and Tavares was selected by ArchDaily as one of the Best New Practices of 2023. He was co-curator of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial and is part of the advisory curatorial board of Sharjah Biennial 2023. Tavares teaches at the University of Brasília and leads the spatial advocacy agency autônoma.