PERU

Ancestral knowledge applied to a collective endeavor. A towering wooden scaffold greets visitors, evoking a totora raft crafted in 1988 for an extraordinary maritime expedition between South America and Polynesia. Totora is a resilient marsh plant that has been used for centuries by the Uros and Aymara communities to build floating islands on Lake Titicaca, at over 3,800 meters above sea level. The structure thus becomes a tribute to the adaptability and resilience of an ancestral architecture that – despite being subject to natural decay – continually renews itself through an ongoing process of transformation and regeneration.