USP Obelisk, Secretary of Culture Award

In 2006, the Curadores da Terra won an award from the State Government's Department of Culture for the installation of the first prototype of Urban Media Art – the “Civilizing Column”, seven meters high, on the campus of the University of São Paulo, which has attracted great interest as a symbol of Sustainable Art and Architecture. The materials – raw earth packed into the lower part, one meter in diameter, and various plastic waste mixed with vegetable polyurethane in the upper module – create a plastic object of extreme cleanliness and sensitivity.