2023

Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza’s Archive of Dis/repair – By Lucy Benjamin

Theory, Culture & Society Benjamin, L. (2023). Repairability as a Condition of the World: Ernesto Oroza’s Archive of Dis/repair. Theory, Culture & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02632764231204858  “In an age of apparent disrepair as the climate crisis takes hold and neoliberalism fails to liberate, as the cost of living rises and rights…

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Efficiency (after Papanek) presents Julio Llópiz-Casal

We are pleased, in this fifth iteration of Efficiency (after Papanek), to present the works of the artist and designer Julio Llópiz-Casal. The exhibition of Julio Llópiz-Casal’s Caja China in Efficiency (after Papernak) takes place within the frame of the exhibition Alibi, organized by the Forma Foco collective and ENTRE for the exhibition On the new. Viennese Scenes and Beyond at Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Rikimbili as anagram

download pdf here: rikimbili-as-anagram “To understand that new needs demand the emergence of new productive protocols, new ways of speaking and doing. New conveyor belts are needed with new mounting sequences. The rikimbili as the new conveyor belt. That sounds better. Surely the opposite—a rikimbili made with the motor from a conveyor belt—already exists…

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Arquitectura comodín

Arquitectura de la necesidad – rikimbiligao Esta charla versa sobre la potencialidad política de la arquitectura comodín, placeholder, vicaria, o proxy. Tomando como punto de partida las transformaciones realizadas a las viviendas por sus habitantes—definidas en esta investigación como arquitectura de la necesidad—, esta tesis indaga sobre las cuestiones que…

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