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The Great Repair

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Após ter viajado por Berlim (2023) e Paris (2024), a exposição The Great Repair chega a Nairobi em julho de 2026, num formato enriquecido e com curadoria de Munyu, um coletivo de artistas quenianos.

Esta exposição de arquitetura explora os desafios ecológicos e éticos do nosso tempo, abordando questões de cuidado, reparação, manutenção e transformação do ambiente construído na era do colapso ecológico.

Através do trabalho de diversos arquitetos e estúdios de todo o mundo, a exposição destaca práticas e narrativas que funcionam como contraponto aos modelos extrativistas e orientados para o consumo - abordando questões como a degradação ambiental, o esgotamento de recursos e as desigualdades socioespaciais, muitas das quais enraízadas em legados coloniais.

Em paralelo com a exposição, e em colaboração com a equipa curatorial do Munyu, Eléonore Labattut (ETC) está a desenvolver uma série de podcasts concebida como uma extensão contextual destes temáticas. O objetivo é ampliar a investigação da exposição sobre reparação ecológica, práticas de cuidado, reutilização de materiais e justiça ambiental, situando estas questões nas condições espaciais, sociais e climáticas específicas do Quénia. A série será composta por seis episódios, com as vozes de arquitetos, ativistas e investigadoras que, através da diversidade das suas práticas e perspetivas, irão abranger, ampliar e contextualizar o vasto leque de questões levantadas pela exposição.

After touring Berlin (2023) and Paris (2024), the exhibition The Great Repair arrives in Nairobi in July 2026, in an expanded format curated by Munyu, a collective of Kenyan artists.

This architecture exhibition explores the ecological and ethical challenges of our time, addressing issues of care, repair, maintenance, and transformation of the built environment in the era of ecological collapse.
Through the work of various architects and studios from around the world, the exhibition highlights practices and narratives that serve as a counterpoint to extractivist and consumption-oriented models - addressing issues such as environmental degradation, resource depletion, and socio-spatial inequalities, many of which are rooted in colonial legacies.

In parallel with the exhibition, and in collaboration with the Munyu curatorial team, Eléonore Labattut (ETC) is developing a podcast series conceived as a contextual extension of these themes. The goal is to expand the exhibition’s exploration of ecological restoration, care practices, material reuse, and environmental justice, situating these issues within the specific spatial, social, and climatic conditions of Kenya. The series will consist of six episodes, featuring the voices of architects, activists, and researchers who, through the diversity of their practices and perspectives, will explore, expand upon, and contextualize the wide range of issues raised by the exhibition.

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Tuesday · 32 min
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An initiative to create a biomaterial that ‘grows’ from agricultural waste bound together by fungal cultures. The episode explores the many aspects and stages involved in introducing an entirely new material into the construction sector (certification, durability testing, scaling up, production chain, etc.), its potential and initial trials, including in informal settlements, and all the promising developments for more sustainable construction in the future, with less reliance on extractive and oil-dependent materials.
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September 15 · 31 min
The Great Repair
A presentation of the NGO’s various projects, particularly in Kibera, centred around the rivers that run through the neighbourhoods. The creation of community infrastructure and networks of public spaces, with a focus on gender issues, as well as a discussion of the threat of evictions, the struggle of slum dwellers to claim the land they live on, and the violence they face. The concepts of historical, community and ecological reparation, as well as care, are explored.
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September 8 · 29 min
The Great Repair
In this first episode of The Great Repair, we'll be exploring Lamu’s Swahili architectural heritage and the qualities of this traditional architecture in terms of thermal regulation, ventilation, spatial organisation, local materials and the craftsmanship of local artisans – qualities that are now in need of revival in the face of energy-intensive modern technologies (air conditioning, concrete construction, generic architecture, etc.). A presentation of the Waldorf School project in Nairobi: a school in the forest, surrounded by trees, whose walls are home to insects and a wealth of biodiversity.

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