Santiago: The Latest Architecture and News

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Beyond AI_ded Design:
Looking Forward, Looking Backward

Thirty years after its founding, SIGraDi and the University of Chile invite the academic, professional, and creative community to participate in the 30th international congress of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics, to be held in Santiago at the University of Chile from November 18 to 20, 2026.
This gathering marks a symbolic return to the University of Chile, which hosted SIGraDi 2006 two decades ago under the theme "The Human Factor." At that time, we invited participants to reflect critically on the role humans played in the emerging world of digital design. That critical look at the past—and the future—is more relevant than ever in the face of even more disruptive technologies.
In this spirit, we are proposing the concept of "AI_ded Design," a notion that updates the legacy of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and projects it toward a new horizon where design, architecture, and urbanism are redefined by algorithmic structures, intelligent environments, and autonomous systems mediated by Artificial Intelligence.
We invite you to think beyond computer-aided design. We aim to open a space for discussion on a form of design where computation—increasingly transparent, ubiquitous, and autonomous—gives way to new forms of cognition, agency, emergence, distributed processes, and a necessary technological ethics that reconfigures design practices.
To stimulate this collective conversation, we propose four open questions:
What have we learned in these 30 years?
What have we improved in these 30 years?
What have we achieved in these 30 years?
What challenges are emerging in the relationship between humans, machines, and environments?

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The School of Design at Universidad Diego Portales is pleased to invite you to the opening of session 2 of the project "Contemporary Design Discussions: Projections," a space for meeting, reflection, and forward-thinking regarding contemporary design practices.

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HOLDER is an initiative dedicated to highlighting contemporary Latin American design through its stories and creations. Founded in 2023 by designer Trinidad Davanzo and architect Camilo Palma, Holder Objects blurs the lines between an editorial platform, a design shop, and a gallery. Its constantly evolving catalog features a curated selection of furniture and artistic objects for everyday use, promoting prominent designers from Latin America.

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Standing prominently on the Alameda in Santiago, Chile, is a giant that has undergone significant changes in both name and appearance over the past 50 years.

The second edition of the "Premios MA 2023" seeks to promote and highlight the work of contemporary women architects in Chile, featuring two award categories: Emerging and Established. Both categories aim to identify and recognize architectural production in areas such as Housing, Public Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape, and others.

The Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) will host the book launch event for "Care and Territories in Latin America and the Caribbean: Experiences Facing the Challenges of Climate Change from a Gender and Intersectionality Perspective," at the auditorium of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU) at the University of Chile.

On November 16, the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH) will award an honorary doctorate to architect and 2019 National Architecture Prize recipient Miguel Lawner Steiman, in recognition of his distinguished career and commitment to social housing.

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"How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Way to Design" is part of the commemorative activities marking 50 years since the civil-military coup d'état in Chile. The exhibition focuses on the graphic and industrial design produced during the government of President Salvador Allende (1970–1973). It is co-produced by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Centro Cultural La Moneda (CCLM), with the collaboration of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation and the Goethe-Institut Chile. The exhibition will remain on view until January 28, 2024.