Minas, as in mines
A hauntological approach to the site of disaster
A. da Porciúncula Paias (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Vanessa Grossman – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Hubert van der Meel – Mentor (TU Delft - Architectural Engineering)
Stavros Kousoulas – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Herman de Wolff – Coach (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This project deals with the event of disaster; more specifically, the contamination and destruction by a wave of sediment of towns in the Iron Quadrangle and the Rio Doce valley after the rupture of a tailings dam on November 5, 2015, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Through the manipulation and questioning of concepts such as hauntology, ongoingness, contamination, co-constitution, purity and complexity drawn from several theoretical sources, this work proposes a life-affirming site for the circulation of materials, people and knowledge, against the threat of premature death posed by the extractive economy.