South America Project / Projects in Progress at Buenos Aires Biennale

EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM

SEPTEMBER 25, 26, 27 2013

CENTRO CULTURAL RECOLETA

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Centro Cultural Recoleta

Buenos Aires, Argentina

The South America Project (SAP) is a trans-continental applied research network that proactively endorses the role of design within rapidly transforming geographies of the South American Continent. SAP specifically focuses on how a spatial synthesis best afforded by design can provide alternative physical and experiential identities to the current spatial transformations reshaping the South American Hinterland. SAP brings together over 131 participants from the Americas and across the globe, who are leading 23 collaborative projects in 11 countries, under the auspices of 43 public and private sponsors. By drawing together individuals who work in different disciplines from across the Americas, SAP combines diverse design methodologies that can create alternative models to not only visualize and evaluate the effects of fast-paced urbanization, but also to propose specific pilot projects for alternative models of urbanization in the region. Ranging from small, highly calibrated interventions to larger territorial visions, this collection of multiple individual projects—diverse in ambition, scale, and scope—unite these otherwise dispersed proposals within a single organization, and articulate the methodological and instrumental diversity that design can to the region’s current culture of development.  

Hosted by the Buenos Aires Architecture Biennale and Revista PLOT, SAP / Projects in Process exhibits an interim overview of the network’s applied research and design projects. In addition to the exhibition, the symposium will as platform for deliberation and action, providing clear directives for future development of this collective work.

Felipe Correa;

Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Co-founder, The South America Project

Ana María Duran; Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Co-founder, The South America Project

Florencia Rodríguez; Editorial Director, Revista Plot

Loeb Fellow ‘14

EXHIBITION AND SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS:

Maria Arquero

Anita Berrizbeitia

Neeraj Bhatia

Alejandra Bosch

Angelo Bucci,

Tomas Cervilla

McLain Clutter

Martin Cobas

Alejandro Cohen

Felipe Correa

Jean Pierre Crousse

Marcelo Danza

Ana María Durán

Marcos Favero

Alberto Foyo

Alexandre Delijaicov

Gabriel Duarte

Eugenio Garcés
Pablo Gerson
Santiago del Hierro
Flavio Janches

Ashley Scott Kelly

Pierre Martin

Rahul Mehrotra

Felipe Mesa

Rodrigo Pérez de Arce

Camilo Restrepo

Christopher Roach

Florencia Rodríguez

Marés Sandor

Graciela Silvestri

Roger Sherman

Laurent Troost

Sandra Vivanco
Leonardo Zylberberg

SYMPOSIUM / EXHIBITION CREDITS:

Symposium Coordination: Victor Muñoz Sanz

Exhibition Design: Ryley Poblete

Buenos Aires Team:

Florencia Medina

Dolores Oliver

Javier Rojas

Pedro Videla