City and Anthropocene: Horizons of Urban Reconfiguration

Abstract

Contemporaneity is lived today between two profound ruptures: an ecological collapse and a humanist one. Forced migrations, environmental crises, rising inequalities and technologies that accelerate life while reshaping our sense of the real define a time marked by urgency and transition. This issue of Astrágalo invites readers to see the city as the space where these tensions intensify, but also where new horizons of creativity, resistance and alternative ways of living can emerge. From Gaia to the Capitalocene, from digital networks to Indigenous knowledge, the journey opens paths to understand how the human and the non-human intertwine in a present that demands renewed categories and sensibilities. The Global South appears not as a fixed geography, but as a fertile ground for imagining new epistemologies, ecologies and shared forms of inhabiting. Through four thematic directions —“Architecture, Limits and Transformations”; “Architecture, Gender and Otherness”; “Architecture, Nature and Culture”; and “Architecture, Project and Society”— this issue invites you to explore contributions that respond, from varied territories and perspectives, to a central question: how can we think and act in the face of the collapses already shaping our world?