an experimental architect, radical cartographer, multidisciplinary artist, scholar and educator with an iconoclastic experience across geographic and disciplinary borders
CARTOGRAFIA DOS RIOS E CORAIS AMEAÇADOS DE JOÃO PESSOA A ÁGUA é o principal bem comum que sustenta a vida no Planeta. Na cidade de João Pessoa, no Nordeste do Brasil, existe em abundância, escoando pelos seus aquíferos, mangues, rios e litoral. Mas, em prol do lucro e da especulação imobiliária, esse bem comum está …
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The Zone is an ongoing art and research project about the contemporary landscapes of our damaged planet.
Tentacular Lexicon was a commission for the exhibition ‘Facing the Anthropocene’, a call to seven international artists to reflect on, and produce visual responses and a street guerrilla strategy to the questions the Earth is facing. It was curated by Carlota Mir and it included the works of Mari Bastashevski, Robel Temesgen, Marian Garrido, Han …
What does a resilient community against neoliberal urbanism look like from the sky? Vila Autodromo is a local community in Barra de Tijuca facing real state violence from construction companies and the local goverment close to place of Rio 2016 Olympics.
The Global Street is an online video-cartography linking the streets and squares the streets and squares across Tunis, Cairo, Madrid, New York, Tokyo, Istanbul, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. From the Arab revolutions to the 15M movement in Spain, from Occupy Wall Street in the USA to the Hydrangea revolt in Japan, …
A research project and a open urban laboratory to explore that complex concept called the urban commons.
Taller de videocartografía metropolitana, Medellín “Los suburbios de las ciudades del tercer mundo son el nuevo escenario geopolítico decisivo” Mike Davis (Planet of Slums) “Sea arte, sea deporte, sea de la manera que sea, queremos seguir arrebatando jóvenes a la violencia. Medellín no está lleno de sicarios, esto está lleno de talento urbano.” Falco (artista …
El I Encuentro Internacional de Cartografía Ciudadana tuvo lugar en el Paraninfo de la Ciudad de la Cultura y en LABoral Centro de Arte de Gijón entre el 30 de julio y el 1 de agosto de 2009. El encuentro reunió por primera vez bajo esa temática a un amplio grupo de investigadores y activistas de diferentes ámbitos: arquitectura, periodismo, …
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La actividad introdujo el arte de la cartografía mediante un ejercicio lúdico al aire libre de “mapeo” del territorio con técnicas digitales.
Este trabajo recoge un catálogo de mapas, software y vídeos coordinados de forma narrativa usando tecnologías avanzadas de descripción del espacio (GIS, Software, Modelado 3D) mostrando aspectos que no serían evidentes en una primera lectura. Pueden ser extrapolados a territorios y contextos de paz sujetos a tensiones y transformaciones en que la arquitectura y el …
A documentary road movie that runs the 330km that separate Cairo from the southern border of Gaza during the days of Operation Cast Lead in January 2009, which caused more than 1,400 deaths and thousands of wounded among the Palestinian population. The trips follow the attempts of Egyptian civil society to break the blockade imposed …
Hackitectura’s map Cartografía Crítica del Estrecho (Cartography of the Straits of Gibraltar) creates an alternative understanding of the Spanish-Moroccan border region. The border is not an abstract geopolitical line but an increasingly complicated, contested space. The inversely oriented (north at the bottom) map highlights connections between southern Spain and northern Morocco to show a single …
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In Seville, on the eve of a large EU summit and concomitant protests in 2002, a collaborative mapping project was carried out with different community organizations to try to represent different effects of globalization on the city. The project drew on Zapatista frameworks of understanding, particularly those from the communiqués on “Seven Loose Pieces of …
