The Zone is an inmersive interactive installation about the Fukushima Exclusion Zone. It is the winning project in the 6th DKV LABoral Award.
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The Global Street
The Global Street is an online video-cartography comissioned by the project ‘Making Change’ (Leuphana University + HIVOS Foundation).
Mapping the Commons
A research project and a open urban laboratory to explore that complex concept called the urban commons.
Gaza cartography
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 …
From Cairo to Gaza
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 …
WikiPlaza
WikiPlaza was an experimental, long-term project that brought together several collectives of architects, hackers and activists. The idea sprung up of generating a hybrid public space in which to experiment with information and communication technologies as tools for individual and communal emancipation, based on free software and hardware, web 2.0 tools and an open and …
Situation Room
The term Situation Room is normally used to designate a secret place used in times of crisis to assess and monitor data for decision making purposes. Its origins can be traced back to World War II with the invention of computers, digitalization, and the collaboration of architects and the military. These rooms are equipped with …
Critical Cartography of the Straits of Gibraltar
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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Fadaiat: freedom of movement, freedom of knowledge
The straits of gibraltar is a mirror-territory of the transformations taking place in the world today: globalisation, migrations, borders, citizenship, network-society, communication, technologies… the border is a crossed-place, an extensive territory of life and mobile confinements where multiple social practices put pressure on established limits. new spaces and relationships emerge from and through the border …
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