WHAT DO WE DO?
AVENTURA brings together varied personal praxes. We look at people, objects, and spaces as embedded in a collective learning process—there's no such thing as starting from scratch.
We believe it is our responsibility to rethink what was given to us by resituating architectural and cultural traditions in a contemporary context. By addressing people’s specific needs, situated in particular places, we believe we can imbue spaces and objects with {social, political, economic, aesthetic, and spiritual} value beyond their instrumental purpose.
We are invested in the practice of improvisational construction as a methodology for the intertwining of communities with their built environment. Self-construction serves as a pedagogical vehicle fostering agency and autonomy.
- Gambiarra. Make do with available materials or tools in a resourceful, improvised way.
- Affordance. Undress the object. Actively rebel against pre-designed functionality.
- Quickness. Act swiftly, but not in haste. It is preferable to remake than to overthink.
- Play. Approach construction as solemnly as a child playing.
- Constraint. A good problem is an antidote to preconceived ideas. Constraint drives design.
- The map is not the territory. The plan is essential, but so is the ability to deviate from it.
- Bricolage. Self-construction is the process where artifacts mirrors soul.
- Accretion. Contribute to what another has begun to add layers of meaning.
- Mutirão. Creation is the wealth of the community. Art is communal magic.
- Ecology. As beings immersed in an unbridled culture of consumption, it is imperative to not only avoid harming our society, but to contribute to its healing. Neutrality is insufficient.