Studio mangue is a Toronto-based collective, an ecosystem in formation. Initiated by Vivian Gomes,
the studio began with a visual and written manifesto
in Alagoas, created in collaboration with Renner Boldrino and Rogério Félix.

What started as a return to the manguezais,
an encounter between memory, land, and water,
has become an open invitation to co-create.


Vivian is calling urban designers, artists, architects, researchers, and educators to join in exploratory collaborations with communities, non-profits, and educational institutions.

Manifesto
People

Initiator: Vivian Gomes

Vivian Gomes is an architect

and urban designer who moves

between design, storytelling,

and care. A barefoot urbanist,

she walks between land and

water. Memory and imagination,

exploring how cities can breathe

with the rhythms of nature and

culture.

Collaborator: Rogério Félix

Rogério Félix is an architect

and urban designer,

photographer, art director,

and craftsman. His work

merges architectural language

with reflections on the

landscape, exploring the

dialogue between the natural

and the built, where form

becomes narrative and place

becomes memory.

Photography: Renner Boldrino

Renner Boldrino is a

photographer and visual

storyteller whose work explores

memory, territory, and the

everyday life of Northeastern

Brazil. His images move

between documentary and

poetics, tracing the textures

of land, water, and the people

who inhabit them.

Together

Working between Toronto and Maceió, Vivian, Rogério, and Renner

created the first visual and written gestures of studio manque a

collaboration rooted in landscape, culture, and the relational

ecologies that connect the two places. Their collaboration brings

together distant geographies, design, craft, and visual storytelling

to explore how memory, land, and community can shape new ways

of imagining urban life.