Asymmetric Spatialities
I’m participating in Assymmetric Spatialities: Territorial Coloniality, a laboratory organized by coopia. Here’s the info, you can register using the link above.
Asymmetric Spatialities: Territorial Coloniality is a laboratory that studies coloniality and decoloniality trans-versally through the power relations present in territorial trans-formation. We understand coloniality as the socio-environmental “power asymmetries” present in the domination of authority, knowledge, and ways of being imposed by capitalist-patriarchy.
We aim to critically examine spatial practices or sets of socio-environmental transformation technologies—such as architecture—that operate from and through three ecological scales of the territory. These include macro environmental ecologies composed of natural and social assemblages, meso ecologies composed of social and transindividual assemblages, and micro ecologies composed of modes of being. Through conversations with invited guests, readings, drawings, cartographies, and case studies, we will meet both synchronously and asynchronously in a non-hierarchical setting to study together how spatial practices (re)produce various forms of discrimination, inequity, and exclusion.
Throughout these sessions we will ask ourselves: How is coloniality spatialized and territorialized? What are the spatial practices/technologies of socio-environmental coloniality? How have these spatial practices/technologies been problematized, and how can we undo them? What are the anticolonial and decolonial practices present in our territories? In this trans-versal manner, we will discuss spatial practices or technologies that challenge and undo the world we live in, in order to share, imagine, and compose other modes of being and inhabiting.
Asymmetric Spatialities: Territorial Coloniality is a laboratory that studies coloniality and decoloniality trans-versally through the power relations present in territorial trans-formation. We understand coloniality as the socio-environmental “power asymmetries” present in the domination of authority, knowledge, and ways of being imposed by capitalist-patriarchy.
We aim to critically examine spatial practices or sets of socio-environmental transformation technologies—such as architecture—that operate from and through three ecological scales of the territory. These include macro environmental ecologies composed of natural and social assemblages, meso ecologies composed of social and transindividual assemblages, and micro ecologies composed of modes of being. Through conversations with invited guests, readings, drawings, cartographies, and case studies, we will meet both synchronously and asynchronously in a non-hierarchical setting to study together how spatial practices (re)produce various forms of discrimination, inequity, and exclusion.
Throughout these sessions we will ask ourselves: How is coloniality spatialized and territorialized? What are the spatial practices/technologies of socio-environmental coloniality? How have these spatial practices/technologies been problematized, and how can we undo them? What are the anticolonial and decolonial practices present in our territories? In this trans-versal manner, we will discuss spatial practices or technologies that challenge and undo the world we live in, in order to share, imagine, and compose other modes of being and inhabiting.