Artifacts of Entanglement: In the Web of Extractive Urbanization
| Título | Artifacts of Entanglement: In the Web of Extractive Urbanization |
|---|---|
| Código | 039.311/2024 |
| Palabras Clave | urbanization, extractivism, agenciamiento, agua, planificación territorial |
| Carreras Relacionadas | Arquitectura, Diseño, Magíster |
| Período | 2024-2025 |
| Financiamiento | PUCV DII |
| Presupuesto | $50000000 |
| Área | Extensión, Ciudad y Habitabilidad |
| Línea | Ciudad y Extensión |
| Modalidad | Asociado (interuniversitario) |
| Investigador Responsable | Álvaro Mercado |
| Coinvestigadores | Daniela Salgado, Leonardo Aravena, Adriana Marin, Mia-Sue Carrère, Michèle Wilkomirsky, Pablo Mansilla, Geoffrey Grulois, Marco Ranzato, Javiera Pavez, Maxwell Woods |
Globally, raw material extraction has fueled economic growth causing ecological damage and contributing to the climate crisis. In the Anthropocene era, advancements in infrastructure, technology, and AI have accelerated ecosystem transformations, challenging contemporary paradigms for representing and controlling nature. In this context, this research and creation project primarily aims to explore innovative practices and tools for understanding, representing, and speculating about landscape and seascape transformations under extractivist and post-extractivist urbanization. Through this exploration, the project also seeks to consolidate an interdisciplinary research group at PUCV and develop advanced human capital to address these complex environmental challenges.
Based on an artistic approach, the project examines uneven transformations by tracing water agency within human and more-than-human ecosystems. Focusing on Chile’s Norte Chico, where mining extractivism supported by desalinated marine water raises critical questions, and on Italy’s Veneto and Belgium’s Walloon region, where post-extractivist urbanization transitions over damaged territories are scrutinized, the interdisciplinary research group investigates controversies, thus contributing to UN SDG #10: Reducing Inequalities. By merging architecture, design, geography, social sciences, and arts, while addressing Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and New Materialism, the project aims to develop more-than-human languages to visualize and spatialize ecological frictions within the web of life influenced by extractivism. Therefore, utilizing multi-scale and on-site methodologies, together with new digital and interaction technologies (VR, VX, AI) the project will develop immersive artifacts and an exhibition. This Centenario project will allow the consolidation of partnerships with other institutions and upscale interdisciplinary research, thus facilitating applications for ANID Exploration Project funds.
