Research projects
CERFI - Analysis Everywhere
Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry
Susana Caló and Godofredo Enes Pereira
Published by Minor Compositions, 2025
Between the radical energies of the 1960s and the shifting terrains of the 1980s, a group in France quietly detonated the boundaries of politics, psychiatry, and collective life. CERFI – the Centre for Institutional Study, Research, and Training – wasn’t your typical think tank. Co-founded by Félix Guattari, it set out to bring the disruptive insights of institutional psychotherapy into the heart of militant and professional organizing. Their wager? That every collective needs a form of analytic militancy: a way to navigate the unconscious forces that shape power, desire, and resistance from within. This was the birth of schizoanalysis outside of the clinical setting: a practice that shifts focus from the individual psyche to the collective assemblages that compose our lives. What are the deeper machinic drives shaping our actions? What forms of desire power our institutions? CERFI’s work took these questions seriously, designing communal infrastructures, building popular research teams, and launching Recherches, a journal that amplified voices from revolutionary struggles, childcare centres, classrooms, psychiatric wards, and beyond. Analysis Everywhere dives into the rich archive of CERFI’s radical experiments: conceptual, editorial, and lived. It invites us to imagine a practice where the unconscious isn’t repressed but mobilized. Where analysis isn’t an afterthought but a vital tool for political transformation.
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Visualising Relations to Land - AHRC Curiosity Award
Principal Investigator: Godofredo Enes Pereira
Co Investigators: Nabil Ahmed, Aline Weber, Francisco Calafate Faria
Project Partners: UDCB, MAB, Suoji
RIA: Mingxin Li
Visualising Relations to Land addresses how the global energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is disproportionately impacting the territories of Traditional and Indigenous Peoples (TIPs) across the world.
Co Investigators: Nabil Ahmed, Aline Weber, Francisco Calafate Faria
Project Partners: UDCB, MAB, Suoji
RIA: Mingxin Li
Visualising Relations to Land addresses how the global energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is disproportionately impacting the territories of Traditional and Indigenous Peoples (TIPs) across the world.
Existing
procedures for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) required for the
approval of renewable energy projects fail to recognise Traditional and
Indigenous Peoples' ways of life and deep relations with land, and are,
therefore, unable to adequately consider potential impacts on their ways
of life. The project will address the
challenge of visualising the relationships of different Traditional and
Indigenous Peoples to land and territory, in ways that allow their
recognition during the consultation stages of EIA procedures.
Visualising Relations to Land will partner with Traditional and Indigenous Peoples organisations from the reindeer-herding territories of the Southern Sami in the Røros region of Norway, the agro-silvo-pastoral region of Barroso in northern Portugal, and the indigenous and ‘quilombola’ territories of the Jequitinhonha valley in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Together, we will explore the use of 3D digital environments for visualising Traditional and Indigenous Peoples' relationships with land and territories, so that these can be considered in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) or used to contest them. Produced with game-engine software, digital environments will enable Traditional and Indigenous Peoples to visualise their deep relations to land by allowing the spatialisation of oral histories in concrete geographical locations or the geolocation and integration of heterogenous data sources, such as historical photographs, testimony, and artefacts, and by providing immersive environments and visual cues that will aid in the recall of memories of uses and practices of land.
Visualising Relations to Land will partner with Traditional and Indigenous Peoples organisations from the reindeer-herding territories of the Southern Sami in the Røros region of Norway, the agro-silvo-pastoral region of Barroso in northern Portugal, and the indigenous and ‘quilombola’ territories of the Jequitinhonha valley in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Together, we will explore the use of 3D digital environments for visualising Traditional and Indigenous Peoples' relationships with land and territories, so that these can be considered in Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) or used to contest them. Produced with game-engine software, digital environments will enable Traditional and Indigenous Peoples to visualise their deep relations to land by allowing the spatialisation of oral histories in concrete geographical locations or the geolocation and integration of heterogenous data sources, such as historical photographs, testimony, and artefacts, and by providing immersive environments and visual cues that will aid in the recall of memories of uses and practices of land.
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Take Back the Land!
(teaching + event + book)
something about the event in london, and the context of the rerst of the research
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LIQUIT - Voices of Territories
something about the event in london, and the context of the rerst of the research
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From the Frontlines of the Gren Transition
(interviews)
something about the event in london, and the context of the rerst of the research
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Ex-Humus
(ongoing project)
stuff
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Scales of Justice
Principal Investigator: Adrian LahoudCo Investigators: Godofredo Enes Pereira, Sam Spurr, Eduardo Kairuz, Alonso Barros
RIA: Georgia White
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Inverted Mountain
Grupo de Investigacao Territorial
Compulsive Desires - 2022
Compulsive Desires - 2022
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The Ends of the World
Lithium HNI -
2022
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Last Evenings on Earth
Sharjah Architecture Trienalle - 2019
Objecto-Projecto
Sharjah Architecture Trienalle - 2019
Atacama Desert Project
Forensic Architecture, 2014
Axiomatic Earth
Kunsthalle
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