In 2018, art institutions began exhibiting shows on ecology and climate change. As with every turn, it risked being taken as just another intellectual trend.

Pedro Gadanho
Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer based in Lisbon. A 2020 Loeb Fellow from Harvard University, he was curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA in New York and the founding director of Lisbon’s MAAT museum. He is the author of Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency. (Photo © Marteen Laupman)