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#xenotaphXenotafio. ¿Qué quiere la tierra, el suelo, la materia supuestamente muerta de la tierra?
Residencias Remotas, Escuela de Arquitectura, Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB, Chile)19/ago/2024 - 6/dic/2024
Research residency, Installation
w/ Carla Arévalo, Carlos Pastor, Carlos Vial, Carolina Marchant, Dorian Z. Bell, Erick A. Víquez,
Javier Peña, Luis Alejandro Sánchez Rivera, Luis Richmond, Matías Magnere, Richard Gerald-Rondón, Sadoon Al-Obaidi, Ximena Astorga This research and experimentation residency examined the entanglements between living and non-living agents in an industrial microforest within a cement factory, where mineral dust accumulates on tree leaves, settles into soil, and fosters hybrid vegetal-mineral assemblages. These transformations reflect a broader planetary shift: the biosphere has already been surpassed in mass by anthropogenic materials, with concrete and its aggregates now outweighing all living matter on Earth. Framed within deep-time perspectives, this research and material experimentation residency considers cement not just as a modern material but as the outcome of millennia of sedimentation, linking extraction and construction to the origins of death rather than life. See more ↗
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Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas III
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
23/apr/2024
Collective research direction
w/ Luis Alejandro S. Rivera (Assistant)
Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas II
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
12/dic/2023
Collective research direction, Installation
w/ Ximena Astorga and Luis Alejandro S. Rivera (Assistants)
Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas I
Escuela de Arquitectura, LCI Veritas
22/ago/2023
Collective research direction, Installation
w/ Ximena Astorga and Lucía Blanco (Assistants)
The three preparatory iterations of Paisajes de Cementación y biografías no autorizadas (Landscapes of Cementation and Unauthorized Biographies) articulate an initial ecological and political theoretical framework of the special environment produced by the clouds of stone and cement dust released by the Holcim Costa Rica cement plant in Aguacaliente, Cartago. This framework, in turn, offers a perspective on the cement and aggregates industry in the country, in light of the activities of one of the largest actors in the construction materials sector—not only in Costa Rica, but worldwide. The collective research project Paisajes de cementación y biografías no autorizadas examines the sectoral influence of large actors within the architects’ guild, as well as their political muscle within and beyond organizations, public institutions, and research institutes in the country (e.g., the Costa Rican Chamber of Construction, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, and the National Laboratory for Materials and Structural Models). The initial outcomes of student research (digital models and animations, photographs, documentary and plant samples, transcriptions, photogrammetry files, maps, and code for particle dispersion simulation) constitute a first collective and cumulative repository of preparatory documents and preliminary observations to be openly processed by collectives of students, political activists, neighborhood groups, litigants, or independent researchers, whether or not they align with the conceptual interests of the eHTC coordination or the courses in which they were developed.
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Towards a SoTL experiment in the core curriculum of History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture through the ‘directed research in class’ format
jun/2023
Research (SoTL)This research-in-teaching project discusses the challenges faced by architecture students when contextualizing their practice within contemporary phenomena framed by the opportunities and challenges of globalization processes, and when developing concrete theoretical outputs. The proposal suggests an approach based on guided in-class research and models of active strategic teaching to foster a climate of collaborative exercises around theoretical products in the History, Theory, and Criticism (HTC) courses. It advances the hypothesis that this new approach can directly contribute to promoting the association of global phenomena with fundamental aspects of architectural learning. The proposal describes the preliminary design of an experiment to test this hypothesis within the activities of three HTC courses in the architecture curriculum at LCI VERITAS, through a teaching-research project with a SoTL approach during 2023 and 2024.