Ecology Is Dead and We Have Killed It is a text written by María Auxiliadora Gálvez and Mauro Gil-Fournier in response to the urgent circumstances of today, where countless conflicts, inequalities, and crises are proliferating across the planet. It is a text that calls not only for activism, but for a deep transformation in our attitudes and perceptions, starting from the roots. A text that gets us thinking and nudges us to act on ourselves.

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Live Reading Series in Argentina, Uruguay, España, Portugal, South Africa and Austria
The launch of Ecology Is Dead and We Have Killed It will be accompanied by a series of events marking the beginning of a collective-planetary practice. The beginning of a performance. The following program will revolve around actions of affective-somatic activism, with live readings of this manifesto as the central axis. These actions make up the foundational acts of a new civic-architectural practice.

Live Reading I August 2025: Live reading and action in the mountains of San Antonio de los Cobres, Los Andes Department, Salta Province, Argentina. (Collaborators: Edgardo Mercado. Poetics of Gravity. Orillas Nuevas Program. Dra Beatriz García, CONICET QUBIC)

Live Reading II August 2025: Live reading and action at Cerro Áspero, Rocha Department, Uruguay. (Collaborators: Kaisa Baiardi and Juan Gutierrez. Cerro Áspero. Bosque Nativo. Raúl Leymonie. Territorios Líquidos. Daiana Marijanovich. Ensambles)

Live Reading III September 2025: Live reading and action at Alto de la Sobarriba, León Province, Spain. (Collaborator: Concomitentes. Narrativas Solares)

Live Reading IV October 2025: Live reading and action at Pico del Águila. Sierra de Callosa de Segura, Alicante, España. (Collaborator: Adrian Segura. Oso Panda Rojo)

Live Reading V November 2025: Live reading and action in Fafe, Guimarães, Portugal. (Collaborator: A Recoletora)

Live Reading VI December 2025: Live reading at the Table Mountain, South Africa. (Collaborator: Collaborators: Ruth Anderwald, Leonhard Grond)

‍Live Reading VII January 2026: Live reading and action at the top of the Prater Ferris Wheel, Vienna, Austria. (Collaborators: Ruth Anderwald, Leonhard Grond and Sergio Edelsztein. Iliggoceno: The Age of Dizziness)

Further programming will be announced on the download site of Ecology Is Dead and We Have Killed It Ourselves.

Create your own Live Reading
We also invite you also to create your own performative reading:

Step 1: Walk in silence, alone or accompanied, toward a high place—preferably a mountain.

Step 2: Choose a spot to stand still and close your eyes. Bring your attention to everything around you in relation to your own body.

Step 3: Compare the rhythms and pulses of your living being with those of the living and mineral beings surrounding you.

Step 4: Begin reading aloud, randomly, the fragments you feel drawn to.

Step 5: Design any action you feel is appropriate to complete this reading.

Final note: If you document the event, send us a DM via these Instagram accounts: @affectivearchitectures/@psaap_l

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Publication available here.

Digital book: Ecology is dead. And we have killed it ourselves.

Authors: María Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez & Mauro Gil-Fournier

Esquerra Design: Adrián Segura Arquitecturas Afectivas Ediciones

Madrid, July 2025

ISBN: 978-84-125333-3-0