Planetary Embassy
Digital, Exhibition Design, Identity
Planetary Embassy is an initiative by Swissnex and the Embassy of Switzerland that imagines new forms of diplomacy between humans, nature, and the planet’s other living forces. During COP30, the project occupied a chalet in the gardens of Museu Goeldi in Belém, Pará, bringing together art, science, technology, and Indigenous knowledge in a space for active listening. Patterns generated from natural sounds form an identity in motion—generative, alive, and breathing—capable of varying like the ecosystems that inspire it and of graphically translating the relationship between ecology, culture, and contemporary diplomacy. From Brazil to Switzerland, and from the United States to China, India, and Japan, we built an extensive, adaptable visual system for an initiative that proposes a diplomacy seeking to speak on nature’s behalf—and that begins precisely by learning how to listen to it.
An engineer, urban planner, feminist, and key figure in the making of MAM Rio, Carmen Portinho made the act of designing an instrument of social transformation. The exhibition tells her story and brings together works that reveal the breadth of her thinking.
Simplexidade helps organizations operate in complex contexts without confusing complexity with complication. We applied this approach to the visual identity through graphics that explore the organic–digital duality and build on the idea of the power of relationships when integrated.
Ateliês do Rio enters the creative spaces of ten artists from different practices and generations. Photographs by Vicente de Mello and interviews by João Vergara reveal the studio as a living archive, a laboratory, and an extension of each work.
Toriba brings together research, culture, education, and social innovation to imagine possible futures. It is a meeting place for people and narratives that understands collective imagination as a tool for transforming the present. For the project, we developed a new visual identity, a website, and a manifesto film that express this continuum.
