Belinda Tato founded Ecosistema Urbano with Jose Luis Vallejo in 2000, and is the director of the firm. In addition to this, she is a professor of landscape architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I will be asking her some questions related to her career trajectory up to this point, as well as…
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Imagining Shared Urban Futures
The fact that Ecosistema Urbano works internationally makes their efforts a bit decentralized, however, they are an architecture firm, not a non-profit organization. They work on their projects independently, usually commissioned by city governments and other similar groups, while also consulting community stakeholders. They don’t usually work in collaboration with other architecture firms, which…
Survey of the Field
There are several organizations that I know of that work within the realm of studying and building in public space. Most of these are architecture and urban design firms, including, of course, Ecosistema Urbano, as well as Paisaje Transversal, ZuloArk, Todo Por La Praxis, Pez Estudio and Basurama. I would also like to mention the…
On Public Space
There are three main texts that I am relying on for my research, two books plus one more abstract essay, to supplement them. The first of these texts is The Production of Space, published in 1974, and written by Henri Lefebvre, who was a Marxist French philosopher. His main focuses were sociology, geography, and urban…
