Did you know?
Every year, vast amounts of dust travel from the Sahara across the Atlantic Ocean.
Some of it settles in the Amazon rainforest.
That dust carries phosphorus, a nutrient essential to the growth of plants and trees.
A desert, thousands of kilometers away, is helping sustain a rainforest.
Everything is connected.
And sometimes, the connection is so far away, so invisible, that we don't even realize it exists.
This is how we look at the world at urbanART.
We are a systems-thinking practice working at the intersections and in the gaps, between things.
Where a river becomes a dirty drain as it crosses a city.
Where flooded, polluted, noisy and chaotic streets are somehow still described as development.
Where a material is labelled sustainable without asking what it took from the earth, the people or the place to get there.
Where knowledge that has sustained communities for generations is dismissed as outdated, while we search for new solutions to problems we have perhaps forgotten how to solve.
Where a green space, rather, a park exists, but its connections to the larger ecological system have been broken.
Where architecture, ecology, water, food, culture, technology and people are treated as separate subjects, even though they never really were.
These gaps interest us.
Before trying to solve them, we want to understand them.
And to explore what might happen when we reconnect what has become disconnected.
Architecture | Planning | Design | Urbanism | Research | Writing | Publications | Workshops | Teaching | Advisory | Ideas
Different disciplines. One curiosity.
We are rebuilding.
Not just the website. We are rebuilding this space to tell you better about how we think, what we do, and how we can work together.
The new urbanART is coming soon.
Come back after 30th September 2026.
Questions. Ideas. Feedback. Possibilities.
We’re listening.
Reach out to us [here].
