T(t)ERRA: Artistic-Pedagodical Approaches for the Cultivation of Ecological Cultures
(2017)
T(t)ERRA lays the foundation and traces the early stages of Luïza Luz’s research-practice. It maps how Western thought split mind/body, human–Earth, self/other—logics that sustain extractivism. In dialogue with quantum physics, the book shows these binaries loosening and resonating with ancestral and Indigenous interdependence, reshaping language. Luz names this turn “impermanent natures,” a perceptual reorientation for ecological life. Grounded in São Paulo, Brazil, it shows how architecture and urban planning embed separation into daily life, while a final chapter turns to ecological cultures and education, treating ruins, debris, and vacant ground as openings where the more-than-human returns and new learning can take root.
