This issue of ARQ presents a broad critical discussion on the supposed neutrality of instruments. This emphasis is evident in the conversation between Andrés Jaque and Enrique Walker, in the texts by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Ignacio G. Galán, and Gonzalo Carrasco, as well as in the debate surrounding the Promotion Law, which seeks to support architecture produced in Chile through a legal instrument. Furthermore, it explores a territory where architecture can make a contribution: the creation of instruments.
Featured here are proposals such as those by DSGN AGNC, Carlo Ratti, and the MIT Senseable City Lab; projects by Gonzalo Claro, Renato Rizzi, and S9 Architecture; the portfolio by Lofscapes; and the text by Hidalgo, Rosas, and Strabucchi. Finally, the texts by Temtem and Alfaro d’Alençon, as well as the piece by Cortés, Saric, and Puig, highlight the discovery of certain instruments that had previously gone unnoticed.
