In this 'Deriva', Armando Maravilla joins us for a talk, inviting the audience to discover the anonymous traces that shape the city. Through everyday gestures, improvised solutions, and multiple authorship, we will explore other ways of reading and understanding urban space.
In cities like Mexico City, much of the built environment remains anonymous. While we recognize certain landmarks and works by the architects or firms that designed them, most of the spaces we inhabit daily lack an identifiable author. However, it is precisely in these places that a unique richness is revealed.
This talk proposes shifting our focus to these anonymous gestures: seemingly minor decisions that, when accumulated, shape urban identity. These are details that deviate from the norm and reveal processes of adaptation, use of local materials, improvised solutions, and situated cultural references. In them, multiple forms of authorship converge: those who designed, those who built, those who inhabit and transform, as well as the passage of time.
Rather than insisting on authorship as a central value, this approach proposes a reading of the city through the lens of the everyday, recognizing the potential of what has not been documented or named. Observing these traces allows for the construction of alternative narratives about urban space, where anonymity ceases to be an absence and becomes an active form of meaning production.
He is a landscape architect from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and worked for seven years as Urban Landscape Director at Soluciones Ambientales Yaax, a company dedicated to the intervention and maintenance of public spaces. He is co-founder of Baldío Laboratorio de Paisaje and a social media communicator on the topic of urban daily life.
He currently leads the creative side of the project Nativas de las Calles, he is a writer for the Plantae section of the magazine Landuum Paisaje for 7 years, and is part of the architectural committee of the Festival de Flores y Jardines (FYJA).
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Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
