We are pleased to announce this event with a special guest, Felipe Guerra Arjona, for a session of radical critique on the architectural profession. This is on the occasion of his recently published book Coreografías del Habitar by the autonomous publisher OnA Ediciones based in Chiapas, México.
The book is written from an opaquely transcribed future; the traces of the world are the open wounds that guide us and, at times, dominate us. This book gathers a set of collective practices of inhabiting in the face of territorial coloniality of this all-encompassing Capitalist Night in which we are immersed. With a radical critique of the architectural profession, it offers a journey to break the walls that the traces of capitalist, racist and heteropatriarchal design, have left us in the bodies-territories. It is also here that we find the traces of the r-existences that now guide us.
The session starts with reading and discussion over lunch, and end with a collective fiction writing session guided by Felipe.
Lunch is provided and attendance is free.
13.00–16.00
20 October 2024
Delftsestraat 9D, Rotterdam
About Felipe Guerra Arjona
He is an idea-thief. His work problematizes territorial coloniality and traverses questions and rehearsals on: cooperativism, autonomy, anarchisms, processes of de/subjectivation and de/professionalization, the socio-ecological trans-formation of the territory, forms of inhabiting, forms of learning and the political potency of repetition.
He was professionalized as an architect and now rehearses towards fugitive de-professionalization. Felipe is part of COOPIA, a cooperative experiment, committed to multiple doings through inhabiting and learning towards the autonomous socio-ecological trans-formation of the territory.
Studied architecture at the Universidad de Los Andes, holds a Master in Architecture and Urban Design from The Berlage Center, TUDelft, and a PhD in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought from European Graduate School. He lives in the territory occupied by the mexican nation-state in what used to be called Tenochtitlan.
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