European Heritages Days (Architecture) 2025 at Sociedade União Eborense
“The Natural Heritage in the Amazon. Where natural architectures, archaeology, and material culture are doors to the indigenous communities’ future.”
This session will present a film and a debate that highlight the architectures of nature shaped by indigenous communities. The film explores the natural architecture of the indigenous peoples of Amazonas, the archaeology and methods for examining their past. By excavating the vestiges that can ensure their future. In many communities, the labour of the archaeologists is to show that those ancestral communities have belonged to those places for many centuries, which is essential to ensure their presence in the future, by doing (or respecting) laws that recognise them, their existence, and their territory. We invite participants to explore and share the world through the perspectives of the people who continue to inhabit it.
With this session, The Heritales festival aims to reveal ways of life that highlight the relationship between natural monuments, architecture, and nature. According to ancestral cosmogony, indigenous peoples believe that they belong to the land, in contrast to the perspective promoted by so-called “Western Civilizations,” which holds that the land belongs to people
The risk of disappearing, together with the capacity for associative resilience in Portugal, will be the theme of the debate associated with the Europan Heritage Days.
- Target Audience: General public, youth, adults, seniors, researchers, cultural programmers.
- Day: 18th of September 2025
- Time: 18.00
- Duration: 120 min
- Location : Bota Rasa, Praça GIraldo 88, Évora – Portugal
- Registration: free entry
- Notes: Film projection followed by debate with festival organizers. Coordinator of the session: Maria Zozaya. Technical director Fernando Mendes.