Impurity_notes on Contamination, Buenos Aires
The workshop was a week-long exercise for the students of the Postgraduate degree in Landscape Architecture of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
The workshop was part of a wider course – Taller – entitled Landscape of Extraction, coordinated by Prof. Juan Pablo Porta, working in the area of Vaca Muerta in the Argentinian Patagonia, a place known as the second world biggest oil and gas extraction site.
The idea of working in a Landscape of Extraction called for the possibility to elaborate on the concept of ecological design and at the same time to explore the idea of contamination with a view not only to the environmental agenda but also to the aesthetics that such agenda implies, since as Guattari used to say: “Any ecologic discourse must be aesthetic as well as ethical in order to be meaningful”.
During the workshop we tried to explore the concept of interconnectedness and contamination working with patterns as ecological aesthetic agency to connect different forms of rationalities and create relational constructions of space, time and values.
The output is what we call Cartographies of subjectivity: patterns of human and non-human ecologies/subjectivities as forms of analogue computation to read and organize space and knowledge through the interface of aesthetics.
Students were then asked to map and organize the behavior of other rationalities within the landscape different form the human one, choosing to represent the point of view of the other intelligences with a mapping that should have contained both quantitative and qualitative components in form of ‘patterns’ and to then test the different intelligences, challenging their performance in one or more specific task through the manipulation of their patterns.
- [status] completed in 2020
- [location] Buenos Aires
- [type ] workshop
- [date] 10th-18th July 2020
- [commission type] workshop for the Postgraduate Degree in Landscape Architecture @ Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
- [visiting professor] Ilaria Di Carlo
- [professor - Coordinator] Juan Pablo Porta
- [assistant] Sophia Damianovich
- [students] _Phoenicopterous Chilensis _group1: M. Julia Chiesa, M.Pía Conforti Dencás, Paula Cracco, Francisca Martina Gil Sosa _Oil Wells_Fracking Meshes_group2: Agustín Bustamante Jara, Lila Plaini, Abril Pollak, Candela Valcarcel _River Neuquen_Geo river_group3: Celeste, Ferman; Elisa, Porley; Gonzalo, Montoya _Xerophyte Plants_group4: Maria Josefina Beytrison, Maria Federica Cortabarria, Maria Pia Mattes, Lucia Rovella
Impurity_notes on Contamination, Buenos Aires
The workshop was a week-long exercise for the students of the Postgraduate degree in Landscape Architecture of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires.
The workshop was part of a wider course – Taller – entitled Landscape of Extraction, coordinated by Prof. Juan Pablo Porta, working in the area of Vaca Muerta in the Argentinian Patagonia, a place known as the second world biggest oil and gas extraction site.
The idea of working in a Landscape of Extraction called for the possibility to elaborate on the concept of ecological design and at the same time to explore the idea of contamination with a view not only to the environmental agenda but also to the aesthetics that such agenda implies, since as Guattari used to say: “Any ecologic discourse must be aesthetic as well as ethical in order to be meaningful”.
During the workshop we tried to explore the concept of interconnectedness and contamination working with patterns as ecological aesthetic agency to connect different forms of rationalities and create relational constructions of space, time and values.
The output is what we call Cartographies of subjectivity: patterns of human and non-human ecologies/subjectivities as forms of analogue computation to read and organize space and knowledge through the interface of aesthetics.
Students were then asked to map and organize the behavior of other rationalities within the landscape different form the human one, choosing to represent the point of view of the other intelligences with a mapping that should have contained both quantitative and qualitative components in form of ‘patterns’ and to then test the different intelligences, challenging their performance in one or more specific task through the manipulation of their patterns.