The line of research investigates the making of design in anthropocene, dwelling and territoriality, together with areas such as anthropology, philosophy, architecture, urbanism and art. Questioning the human exceptionalism characteristic of modern thought, it uses situated approaches, whether speculative, critical, collaborative, cartographic or project-based, seeking ways of imagining, narrating, fabulating, fictionalising and disputing paths to the future. Examining what characterises the age of ‘Man’ - the Anthropocene - he rethinks design in a cosmopolitical dimension, paying attention to the colonial matrix of power alongside social struggles.

For more information, read the article Design, territorialities and anthropocene in the DAT Magazine dossier [2024].

Compulsory course

Fundamentals of Design, Territorialities and Anthropocene

Elective subjects

1 Territory, social struggles and political ecology   (in portuguese)

2. Making and living beyond development    (in portuguese)

3. Politics, globalisation and counter-colonialism   (in portuguese)

4. Critical perspectives on art and architecture   (in portuguese)

5. Images and imaginaries of the earth/land   (in portuguese)

6. Anthropology and philosophy beyond the human    (in portuguese)

7. Project, fabulation, futures   (in portuguese)