Brostein for (de)konstruksjion/Adoquines para el Guadiana transforms the ruined Ajuda Bridge between Spain and Portugal into a speculative multiplayer game where visitors collectively negotiate the future of a shared territory. Floating above the bridge, new “migratory species” — data centers, lithium mines, green hydrogen and tech corporations — can be symbolically bought or sold, altering the landscape in real time. Part simulation, part territorial fiction, the work explores borders not as fixed lines, but as living spaces shaped by infrastructure, conflict, ecology and collective imagination.
The project begins with a simple question: who really builds a territory? Its inhabitants? Corporations? Rivers? Political decisions? Promises of the future?
Within a shared landscape crossed by a river that for centuries has simultaneously separated and connected communities, the historic bridge reappears transformed into a game board. Floating above its ruins are new migratory species: data centers, lithium mines, battery factories, green hydrogen plants, solar infrastructures and digital technologies. Visitors can approach them, symbolically buy or sell their shares, and in doing so alter the behaviour of the territory itself.
Each decision adds or removes paving stones that slowly reconstruct the bridge: some carry water, ecosystems, civic participation or local benefits; others are heavier, more ambiguous, or harder to sustain. Gradually, an unexpected structure begins to emerge — a bridge built from agreements, tensions, contradictions and shared desires.
BUY / SELL
The work transforms the border into something other than a line dividing two sides. Here, the border appears as a space of inclusion where inhabitants collectively negotiate, confront and coexist with large-scale infrastructures and the forces reshaping their landscape.
