Vivian Abenshushan (Mexico City, 1972) is a writer, editor, and independent cultural agent.
In recent years, her practice—both individual and collective—has focused on exploring aesthetic and discursive strategies that confront the processes of contemporary capitalism and its structures of cultural production, as well as the relationships between art and political action, community processes, interdisciplinary intersections, and experimental writing practices.
On November 19 and 20, the School of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC Minas - Poços de Caldas will host the Architecture as Symbol workshop, an activity within the Gustavo Penna 73/23 - 50 Years of Architecture, Drawing, and Word project. The program features lectures by architects and urban planners Luis Antônio Jorge and Marina Grinover, as well as Gustavo Penna, who will also lead a drawing workshop. Fátima Barnabé and Henrique Ferreira, representing the project's sponsors, will debate “The macro and micro visions of architecture.” The event concludes with an evaluation of the drawings produced during the workshop and the announcement of the winners of the first student ideas competition for the “Gustavo Penna 73/23” project. Registration (R$ 40.00 for students and R$ 80.00 for professionals) is available at: www.pucpcaldas.br/inscricoes/workshopgustavopenna
"Second International Seminar on Material Culture"
Following the success of the first edition in 2016 in Curitiba and the second edition last year in Brasília, the COURB Institute is bringing the 3rd Collaborative Urbanism Meeting to Fortaleza, Ceará, on November 12, 13, and 14.
The Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Congress (EECN) is the premier professional forum for addressing the current state of high-efficiency buildings and their implications for the building, construction, architecture, and related services sectors in our country.
The Congress addresses key aspects affecting Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Spain from a comprehensive and multidisciplinary perspective. A wide range of topics will be covered, including technical and regulatory issues, as well as business opportunities, considering solutions for both new construction and renovation projects.
It covers the current state and future of the sector through various formats, such as paper presentations, NZEB project exhibitions, roundtables, and keynote speeches. The thematic areas established for the 5th Nearly Zero Energy Buildings Congress are:
2nd The City Needs You Festival
An invitation to playfully build our educating city
NODO is an initiative organized by student councils from various architecture schools in Santiago, fostering connections between universities through discussions, lectures, and exhibitions. Our focus is on collaborative and strategic work to develop cross-disciplinary opportunities that address contemporary discourse. The event will feature participation from the following universities: UCH, UNAB, PUC, USS, U MAYOR, UTEM, USACH, UDP, and UCEN.
By Kamy, one of the country's most respected and traditional rug retailers, will host Archathon—the largest Arch&Design workshop in the Americas—on November 10, marking its debut on Alameda Gabriel Monteiro da Silva.
On November 11, the mentor selection process, final presentations to the jury, and the announcement of the winner will take place at Archademy.
The event fosters professional development, practical experience, and networking between participants and partner brands. The challenge: design an interior space using the workshop sponsors' products in under 24 hours.
The winners will receive a trip to Miami for Miami Art Basel, one of the world's most important modern and contemporary art events, in December 2018.
Archathon is open to licensed architects and interior designers. Registration is open until November 1, 2018, via the website: http://bit.ly/ArchathonSaoPaulo2018.
The Technological Center for Construction Innovation (CTeC), in collaboration with the Technological Development Corporation (CDT), invites you to the International Seminar: Innovating Construction, taking place on November 21 and 22 at the Chilean Chamber of Construction (CChC) auditorium.
Following the success of the first edition in 2016 in Curitiba and the second edition last year in Brasília, the COURB Institute is bringing the 3rd Collaborative Urbanism Meeting to Fortaleza, Ceará, on November 12, 13, and 14.
This ideas competition considers water landscapes, and more specifically rivers, as mediators in the necessary harmonic and dynamic balance that must exist between cities and nature. The fluvial (geomorphological) restoration approach will be used to revitalize a river, thereby understanding its natural system to inform design adapted to that system.
Architecture, art, poetry, and literature have occasionally produced works where their boundaries blur and, for a moment, even merge. The "Gajes del Oficio" series aims to continue blurring these boundaries, encouraging this to happen more frequently and expanding the tools of each "trade."
The Social Housing in the Center ideas competition is open to undergraduate students of Architecture and Urbanism of any nationality. It is being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the portal and magazine concursosdeprojeto.org.
Ideasforward aims to provide young creatives worldwide with an opportunity to express their views on the future of society through innovative and visionary proposals.
Competition: Design of a Humanitarian Respite Center
The shelter serving as a humanitarian respite center in downtown McAllen, Texas, was created to respond to the needs of families in crisis. Through its services and the selfless work of volunteers, the shelter has helped countless people in need regain their dignity, particularly Central American immigrants seeking refuge after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Abouthaus is an online platform designed to assist self-promoters and self-builders in their training process, decision-making, and in finding high-quality home designs.
Ideasforward is an experimental platform that seeks progressive ideas reflecting emerging themes. Ecological design, sustainable architecture, new materials, concepts, and technologies are pressing issues for the societies of the future, and the participation of the entire community is essential. In an era of globalization, where communication has been dominated by the technological revolution, there is a need to rethink cities and how people relate to one another in a global world, as well as to rethink the economic, social, and cultural patterns of contemporary societies.
The housing deficit in Peru currently stands at 1.8 million, with 20.9% being quantitative and 79.1% qualitative. 70% of homes are built without the technical assistance of an architect or engineer. Do you want to be part of the change? The right to housing is the right to a dignified home: this is the shared goal of DNADD and Techo Perú—to redesign a new modular housing model capable of providing Lima's populations with basic necessities and a space worthy of being called a "home."