Productive Landscapes
29.05 – 03.06.2022

Productive Landscapes focuses on the impact of industrial agriculture in Southeast Portugal.
Dwelling on its consequences to land usage, from environmental impact to migration patterns, TU
BRNO’s students conducted a research documentary project, filmed on location as a means of
establishing their project’s hypothesis. Based on the conclusions of this research, design
proposals are developed and presented in the form of a short animated movie.

Southeast Portugal was chosen as a location where industrial agriculture is in current conflict
with its surrounding. Despite being a natural park, the region’s protection laws do not prevent
agro-industrial corporations from taking over the landscape, transforming hectares of natural
scenery into a vast sea of plastic greenhouses. With them come diverse new factors that need to
be taken into consideration - land usage, environment, production, technology, and social
implications.

Productive landscape typologies have emerged and evolved without the presence of architects,
which leads to the following questions: Do they need to be contextualized and adapted to the
urban environment? What impacts do they have on an urban network? Could they allow
re-interpretations? What role do architects or/and urban planners could imply in those specific
typologies?

STUDENTS:
Dominika Kastellová
Eliska Valová
Ian Antonio Mercado Luna
Jan Bilek
Julie Bonnans
Leana Terkawi
Marie Krizková
Pavlina Gunárová
Rosita Mircheva
Saša Smolej
Tereza Procházková
Vendula Vasková
Veronika Mikulova
Viliam Sebora

INSTRUCTORS
Locument (Francisco Lobo, Romea Muryń)

SUPPORT:
Faculty of Architecture at the BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUTO

Photography: Gisele Cupolillo