This is an intensive three-week design workshop (the first week in Querétaro, the second—four days in San Miguel de Allende—and the third, concluding week in Querétaro), held from June 10 to June 28, 2019. As a highly relevant hub—not only for its regional importance but also for its recent growth—the goal of this workshop is to conduct a critical study of the context and, based on various variables, develop a significant project. The proposed content covers three fundamental themes:
The National Architecture Forum (FONARQ) is an academic and cultural event designed to provide an inclusive meeting space for architecture professionals and students, fostering the development and appreciation of quality architecture within our community.
Thursday, April 25, 2019 The experience of the contemporary city is interwoven with various forms of digitization, some more perceptible than others—ranging from those generated by apps like Uber, Yelp!, or the Guadalajara municipal tourism office, to the extraction of big data from our movements by telecommunications companies, and the network of public and private video surveillance. These mediations organize the city to function as a productive assembly, primarily for economic value. I propose we examine some forms of digital writing that have operated on the city in recent years—3D mapping and multimedia projections—as well as strategies of resistance to these forms of entertainment and regulation of experience, as explored by various artists and collectives, from Krzysztof Wodiczko and Astrovandalistas to sitio*TAXI.