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1.2
Inverted
Mountain





 
DESCRIPTION
Inverted Mountain is a 3D simulation to support the struggle against the planned open pit lithium mine in Covas de Barroso, Northern Portugal. Through 3D modelling and cartographic analysis, we reveal some of the negative impacts this mine would bring to the region and further afield. Made in collaboration with people living and working in the region, we visualise some of the oversights and risks buried in the environmental impact assessments and mining plans.

TEAM
Godofredo Pereira
Antonio del Giudici
Mingxin Li
Jacob Bolton
Tiago Patatas  
 
COLLABORATORS
Diogo Machado Ferreira
Diogo Borges & João Churro (sonoplastia)
Rodrigo Placido (correccão de cor)
 
PARTNERS
UDBC

FUNDING
Exhibition Compulsive Desires, comissioned by Marina Otero Verzier
Galeria Municipal do Porto

FILM
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Across these excerpts, we highlight the mine’s proximity to nearby villages and its foreseeable impacts, including noise and microparticulate dispersal, threats to bodies of water and local and regional ecologies, and the expected destruction of baldios — commonly managed lands that are central to Barroso’s agro-sylvo-pastoral system, recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System. The clips also expose the dangerous and experimental techniques proposed for the mining operation.

Showing at @galeriamunicipaldoporto