"Allí [en Australia] se habla sin eufemismos de “la industria de la educación”, una de las industrias más lucrativas del Estado de Victoria y que posiciona a Melbourne entre los grandes centros educativos del mundo. Por ende, el concepto de Universidad pública en Australia se refiere al Estado como propietario, a su pluralismo y compromiso con la excelencia que asegura su contribución al país en todos los ámbitos, incluido el económico." Video original: El Baquedano.
Maturana Cossio, Beatriz, and Anthony McInneny. 2018. "Embedding urban sustainability through research, teaching and strategic planning." Charrette 5 (1):8-20.
NEW BLOG: PROYECTOS DE TÍTULO. Final year student´s proyects, supervised by Prof Beatriz Maturana. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad de Chile.
"When we as a profession learn to diagnose the total landscape, not only as the basis of our culture, but as an expression of it, and to share our special knowledge as widely as we can, we need not fear that our work will be ignored or that our efforts will be unappreciated." Paul Sears, Human ecology: A problem in synthesis (1954)
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| Carretera Austral, Chile. Photograph by Beatriz Maturana |
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| Víctor Rodríguez junto a la profesora Beatriz Maturana. |
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| Design studios at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm. |
Invitación
Writes: Beatriz C. Maturana
The following article features a design studio (taller) at the University of Chile, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, led by Orlando Sepulveda (7th semester architecture students).
The studio focuses on a significant and poorer district in Santiago, so significant in fact that one of its landmarks, Zanjón de la Aguada—a canal formally known for its industrial and organic waste pollution—had the unfortunate capacity to conjure inhospitable images of misery, crime and industrial decay, images that have negatively shaped the perception of that part of the city. Fortunately but slowly, these perceptions are fading away as something of the past. Most recently, the news that the Metro (Santiago´s underground) will open a station in heart of this district and the completion of the Parque La Aguada, part of the Bicentenary Projects (an extensive new flooding park running along the Zanjón de la Aguada canal), may put a definitive end to the stigma attached to the area and hopefully will positively impact on the entire city. A question arises as to how the improvements brought by these large urban interventions can be sustainable over time and ensure the best possible results for the district and for the enjoyment of the existing population.
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| Figure 1: proposal by María de la Luz Lobos, Mathilde Marcantoni and Gabriel Arias. |
reality check: fantasy, creativity, play and the ‘real world’
studio+space: Architectural | Urban Space Design Studio
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| image 1: Clare Cannon |
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| image 1: Darren Kim Lee Yio |
PUBLIC ART - 2
Course overview
The urban spaces we have created tell about our society and as our societal values change with time, so these spaces change to adapt to new functions, peoples, technology and ideas. Being able to "read the space" is a complex and a critical task for anyone involved in any form of urban intervention. This course explores the relationship between the spaces we have created and what these spaces tell about ourselves.
The course will focus on interpreting and understanding our relationship with the spaces we have created “urban spaces”. The relationship is based on the degree of our interventions, the reasons for them, our own interpretations and their functions in their current form.
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