ABSTRACT
The world evolves within a schema of chaotic ordering, superimposing structures of feeling upon forms of nature. The implementation of multi-scalar 'development' through public-private partnerships is at least as old as the 1992 Olympic Games, which were infrastructurally organised on the basis of what came to be known as the 'Barcelona model' of management. As a hybrid of scientism and art, the Museum of Tomorrow is located within the non-existing places of a global social imaginary of self-preservation and betterment. Law and heritage take a long time to integrate; the time and space required for transitions at this level. An eco-centric environmental ethics, which views the environment as intrinsically valuable and non-human entities as moral beings, raises more questions in Rio's political ecological context than those it attempts to answer. The proposition that ideology and dreaming stand worlds apart often supports a peculiar concoction of aesthetic naivete, social self-denial and strategic political planning.
