Flores: An Ecology of Disaster

Abstract

In the film Flores (2017), Jorge Jácome places us in an indeterminate future in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, where an ecological cataclysm caused by a plague of hydrangeas takes place. Although we are facing a fictional case, the analysis of the transformation of this scenario allows us to glimpse a mechanism that operates behind natural disasters when they are approached from ecological visions that advocate unlimited production. This example allows for a discussion about how architecture can intervene in cases like these, understanding these phenomena as design objects.