Land Purpose — Land Ownership Beyond Private Property
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Land Purpose exhibition at AAP. image / Anna Dietzsch
Abstract
Property is one of humanity's great obsessions. Over centuries, human beings have produced innumerable tools that seek to make everyone believe which chunks of the planet belong to whom: writings, contracts, registries, testaments, taxes.
Often, these tools produce dystopian realities: land and property that are bought as speculative goods generate the enrichment of few and the impoverishment of many, degrade the environment, create obstacles between peoples and their memory, and cause exclusion and trauma.
On the other hand, people have also sought to produce utopian realities with these same resources: property that cannot be bought and sold, that democratizes access to housing, that guarantees cohabitation between human and non-human beings, and that preserves memory and the environment for future generations.
The Land Purpose project seeks to give visibility to these people and projects with more than 100 case studies from around the globe.
Biography
Anna Dietzsch is a dual-national architect and urban designer, with degrees from the University of São Paulo and Harvard University. She is currently partner in charge of ArC (Arquitetura da Convivencia) in São Paulo and integrates the Hudson Valley Collaborative platform in New York. Working in between theory and practice, Dietzsch has been responsible for projects such as the Victor Civita Eco-Park and the Green Stream Linear Park in São Paulo. Her portfolio also includes the 9/11 Memorial Museum and the Pop-up Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. Her research Forest City is about the urbanization of the Brazilian Amazon and hybrid forms of sustainable development that value indigenous knowledge. As co-coordinator of the Forest City platform in São Paulo, she has led projects in partnership with indigenous communities in Brazil and the U.S., including with the Kamayurá, the Guarani-Mbya, the Kuikuro, and the Seneca and Onondaga Nations. She has taught at Columbia University, City College, and is currently Visiting Professor at Cornell University.
