Exhibition at the Ciência Viva, Science Museum in Estremoz

Homo a maker of objects... An apparently strange collection, but... essential if we are to understand what brought us to what some call the ANTHROPOCENE.

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For nearly 2.6 million years, we and our Homo ancestors have been evolving on Earth, demonstrating an enormous capacity for creating objects and transforming the space in which we live. An astonishing evolution that has taken us from the crude tools of the Paleolithic to space travel... but also to the internet, or artificial intelligence... An evolution that will undoubtedly take us to a future that is difficult to imagine at present, as this has been a constant throughout evolution. A future that has been the result of the accumulation of individual and/or collective efforts, sometimes thought out, sometimes the result of chance. A future that is often feared, because it is not easy to face the unknown and there will always be someone who cries wolf...

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What promises of kingdoms and mines

Of gold, what will you promise so easily?

What fame will you promise? What stories?

What triumphs, what applause, what victories?

The Lusíadas, canto IV

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Our present therefore appears as the accumulation of all these past events that have left a varied legacy of objects that have been accumulating at a rate that seems impossible to sustain, and with which we have been transforming our planet. A transformation so intense that we are beginning to realize that we will find it difficult to live here.