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** Presented by Travessias Brazilian Film Festival in collaboration with the Center for Brazilian Studies at UW. ** Northern Brazil, state of Maranhão. TIBÁ architects build earth houses in indigenous villages as a part of a compensation policy against the impact of an industrial railway which passes next to the territory. Architecture becomes a pretext to talk about the complex situation of the native Brazilian population which faces rapid modernization of its culture and an intensifying invasion from the neighbouring Brazilian villages. The efforts of the Guajajara tribe focus on guarding the forest and ensuring that the last uncontacted Awá tribes can continue their traditional way of life, undisturbed.

We Do It for Awá

The Guajajara tribe, indigenous people of what is now Maranhão in Northern Brazil, are beset by industrialization and the “march of progress.” The government’s compensatory plan to build them earthen houses is an important gesture, but cannot repay the increasing challenges the tribe faces in stewarding their land and protecting remaining uncontacted tribes from their same fate.

In areas of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico, Indigenous and Hispanic communities have lived in both harmony and conflict since the late 16th century – but in the late 19th century, the impact of U.S. imperial expansion and the legacy of Indigenous enslavement eclipsed that history. Using adobe architecture as its main throughline, Mud Frontier explores the complex cultural confluences in this region and its painful legacy of colonialism, while grounding its focus on the earth and the land.
Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands offers an intimate, tactile look at Mud Frontiers, a project led by artist-architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, who use 3D-printing technology to build adobe structures on Rael’s ancestral homelands in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Using energy-efficient, ecologically-friendly, and affordable construction methods, Mud Frontier draws upon the long-lasting links between Indigenous and Hispanic cultures of the area, paying homage to the past while simultaneously moving towards a more sustainable future.

Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands

Artist-architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello use 3D-printing technology to build adobe structures on Rael’s ancestral homelands in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Energy-efficient, eco-friendly, and affordable, this new sustainable construction method builds on positive aspects of the relationship between the region’s Indigenous and Hispanic cultures that has endured throughout their shared history.

Mud Frontier: Architecture at the Borderlands w/ We Do It for Awá

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