The impact of her philosophy on contemporary architecture has been – and still is – disruptive. While architecture struggles to find solutions for a sick planet, developing strategies starting from buildings, public spaces, cities and infrastructures, Haraway does not suggest solid and universal solutions, but a fragile and situated position. The position to take is to learn how to “stay with the trouble”, how to “make kin” with those who inhabit this planet made of earth and soil, in which we find humus, plants, animals, human beings, but also technologies, knowledge, capitalism. To describe this condition, Haraway invented the term Chthulucene, or an era of the earth (khthôn) which is neither romantic nor idyllic. It is the land of today (kainós), the sick and infected one we are called to respond to. The Golden Lion to Donna Haraway is summed up in her thought: the idea of the Planet as a sick soil we are responsible for here and now; the awareness of being situated, and therefore limited; the urgency of looking for new forms of coexistence. In Intelligens architecture calls everyone together, because our survival is at stake, and therefore no intelligence is superfluous and every place can become a solution. We need to go again inside the earth and inside the ecology of life, learning together how to inhabit it in a different way.

Featured image: Donna Haraway – Photo Clara Mokri