Architectural Association Visiting School Programme (AAVS)
Latin-American Metropolitan Landscapes (LAML)
AAVS LATINAMERICA [online]
GroundLab Inmigrando, BID, 2020
What is LAML’s agenda?
Latin-American Metropolitan Landscapes looks critically at the intricate interdependent relations of urban dense environments and the landscapes and territories (productive, operative, logistical, extractive, etc.) necessary for them to thrive. With a special focus on Latin America, this online programme explores the role design and investigative methodologies can play in creating alternative and innovative visions for metropolitan regions, at a planetary, regional and local scale in close connection with disciplines such as journalism, activism, economy, planning, policy-making, and geography.
Jales Mineros: Vacios Urbanos 2020 Eduardo Castro, Luis Anaya, Nancy Pacheco, Carlos Rubén Martínez
What is LAML’s agenda?
Supported by the Financial Times’ Visual Investigations Team, the London Mining Network and co-organised with Tec de Monterrey, we address today’s demand for a metropolitan discipline in Latin America, conscious of its past, present and future and the extractive damage they impose on hinterlands and other landscapes. By making visible and accountable the works of large corporations headquartered in cities such as London, the programme integrates environmental and social justice movements as well as local communities’ struggles in Latin America.
Rewilding: Río de Atemajac, 2021 Daniela Ortiz, Andrés Vives, Kiyomi Kaneko
Water Ecologies: from the Cerros to River Chuviscar 2024
Maggie Franco, Andrea Ares
Structure
Module 1 - Metropolitan Landscapes: An Introduction
Session 1: Environmental Crisis and The Capitalocene
Session 2: Planetary Urbanisation
Module 2 – Landscape As Territory
Session 1: Landscape as Territory
Session 2: Landscape Practices in The Capitalocene
Module 3 – The Rhetorics of Mapping
Session 1: The Evolution of Cartography
Session 2: The City is not a Computer.
Real Farming Engine: UK 2023
Jingfei Liu, Shurui Han, Xin Zang, and Wenzhuo Wu
Structure
Module 4 – Narratives Behind Visualisations
Session 1: Landscapes Images & Narratives
Session 2: Envisioning Future Landscapes
Module 5 – Policymaking And Post-Capitalist Visions
Session 1: World-Building Projects and Principles
Session 2: Design, Application and Implementation of World-Building Policies
Module 6 – Visual Essay Development
Session 1: Visual Essay Tutorials
Session 2: Final Visual Essay Presentation
Reconectando Comunidades 2024 Jaime Flores Diosdado, Luis Andrés Neri Villafuerte
Research Topics and Policies
Rewilding Cities
From Agroindustry to Agroecology
Buildings Retrofitting
Deconstruction and Material Reuse
Building with Bio-Based Materials
Alternative Mobility Systems
Food Sovereignty
Just Transition
Community Wealth Building
Real Farming Engine 2023
Jingfei Liu, Shurui Han, Xin Zang, and Wenzhuo Wu
Tools
The programme methodology weaves critical thinking with visual & cartographic technologies such as the use of remote sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), interactive mapping and visual storytelling.
Programme Directors
Alfredo Hidalgo Rasmussen
Alfredo Ramírez Galindo
Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
Past and present teaching staff
Patricia Figueroa
Rosana Valdivia
Elena Luciano Suastegui
Camila Arretche
Carlotta Olivari
Tejiendo Montañas 2023 Sally Torres Mallma, Gerardo Sandoval Osio, Guadalupe Lopez Elenes
Guest Speakers
Kai Heron (Lancaster University)
Nikos Katsikis (Delf University)
Julian Siravo (Autonomy Think Tank)
Ruth Lang (Design Observatory and London School of Architecture)
Sergio Beltrán (Forensic Architecture)
Danika Cooper (Berkeley University)
Francisco Serratos (Washington State University)
Douglas Spencer (Iowa University)
Abrahán Rodríguez (Manos a la Cuenca)
Dark Matter Labs
Iñaki Echeverría (Parque Ecológico de Texcoco)
Miguel Robles-Durán (Parson School of Design)
Jeannette Sordi (NYU University)
Elena Luciano Suastegui (AA School)
Maggie Franco, Andrea Ares
English and Spanish Language
Water Ecologies: from the Cerros to River Chuviscar 2024
Maggie Franco, Andrea Ares
Reconectando Comunidades 2024 Jaime Flores Diosdado, Luis Andrés Neri Villafuerte
Where?
Online
Friday PM (TEC de Monterrey) and Saturday AM (AA School)
The program runs weekly seminars of 4 hours each on Friday and Saturday for 12 weeks (96 hours) of online sessions and an optional one-week fieldtrip to London (40 hours).
London Field trip Optional
Planet of Fields: London Green Belt, 2023
Antonio José Garaycochea
London Field Trip
Tate Britain
Hooke Park Campus
Ruth Lang, Squire and Partners visit
Offices
Peter Barber Architects
Unit 38 Architects
Foster and Partners
Roger Stirk Harbour
Partners
Vogt Landscape
Architects
Zaha Hadid Architects
Thomas Heatherwick
Gustafson Porter + Bowman Landscape Architects
Arup
Squire & Partners
Architects
Projects
London Olympic Park development
Battersea & 9 Elms Development
King’s Cross Development
Tate Modern
Design District in Greenwich
Hooke Park (AA Dorset Campus)
AA School (Bedford Square)
Battersea Arts Centre
Brixton Department Store
Barbican Centre
Wards Corner
Visit at Vogt Landscape Architects
Just Transition 2019-2020 Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera and Yasmina Yehia
How to apply
https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/ academicprogrammes/visitingschool/ latinamerica
https://maestriasydiplomados.tec.mx/ programas/metropolitan-landscape-virtual
Elena Luciano Suastegui, Rafael Martinez Caldera