Thursday Oct. 27 | 6pm Contested Territories & Transborder Farmlab at HARVARD.
CGIS, Room S-030, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Architecture / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Economy / Media / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Science / Social Sphere / Sustainability / Waste
Institute of Waste
The Institute of Waste and its Embassy are a unique project that brings together Torolab in collaboration with a network of recognized scientific researchers, academics, artists and journalists at the National University of Mexico and other institutions.
Architecture / Art Collectives / Cartography / Citizenship / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Food / Frontier / Home Territories / Media / Migration / Molecular Urbanism / Music / Nutritional Poverty / Organoleptic Landscapes / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Science / Social Sphere / Sustainability
Homeland: Iu Mien Farm Tapes
HOMELAND is an ongoing project about the construction of home territories and the constant revaluations of identities within nomadic, migratory and refugee communities.
Art Collectives / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Media / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Research / Social Sphere / Technology
WorkRoom 4: Text_Map
WorkRooms are a series of projects that reevaluates the program of museum space through exchange of functions and the creation of new working environments for museum guards, who are always part of any exhibit.
Architecture / Cartography / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Science / Social Sphere / Sustainability / Technology
One Degree Celsius
One Degree Celsius is part of a larger Project called Molecular Urbanism, where the biological changes of the human body create a morphing relationship that we try to visualize, catalogue and finally propose a Project from that point.
Import/Export
First prototype of a larger Project [IMPort/EXPort] on modernist urbanism. Waste from international exchange is taken and then redesigned, transformed and re exported back with other use and other value.
Aroma / Cartography / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Economy / Food / Molecular Urbanism / Nutritional Poverty / Organoleptic Landscapes / Participation / Politics / Quality of Life / Social Sphere
COMA
Torolab traced the physiological changes of a Mexican person in their everyday relation to food.
Border / Cartography / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Economy / Emergency Architecture / Frontier / Home Territories / Migration / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Social Sphere
9 Families
Torolab is invested in redefining notions of emergency architecture an architecture of possibility - an architecture necessary for the dynamic conditions of socio-political flexibility and exchange inherent to the border.
Context / Design / Economy / Home Territories / Media / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Science / Social Sphere / Technology
Forest
Project of a Tree like Security System that transforms according to the context that starts a trek from what until 2004 was America's safest city, San Jose Ca. in Silicon Valley and then goes to New York and finally to Mexico City.
Border / Cartography / Citizenship / Collaboration / Contemporary Art / Context / Design / Economy / Emergency Architecture / Frontier / Home Territories / Media / Migration / Participation / Politics / Public Space / Quality of Life / Referential Landscapes / Research / Science / Social Sphere / Technology
LRPT
LRPT is a document of urban ethnography, it proposes a new form of cartography of the transborder region between Mexico and the United States.
