ARCHIPELAGOS At some point in 2013 I received a message from Thais,
“Have you heard about the Architecture Biennial? We could send a proposal for the open call, what do you think?”.
It is very difficult to recognize turning points throughout a lifetime, but this was certainly one of them. Sensitive as it is, Thais identified a practice that I was already developing individually and suggested transforming it into a collective experience. Gabrieli joined the group with his philosophical concepts that brought density to the project and, a few months later, we were at the São Paulo Cultural Center gathered with a group of thirty participants who dared to sign up for a mysterious two-day urban expedition.
It was the beginning of Arquipélagos Urbanos, which since then proposes these ways of using the territory, which addresses another issue that worried me: How to put on a show without building a stage design and without getting bored with rehearsals? Inviting us to walk over long distances, where we alternate the roles of actors, spectators and directors.