Gio
16
Apr
Seminari e Convegni
Weawing ecologies: indigenous practices of relational design
On Thursday, 16 April 2026, will take place a lecture entitled Weawing ecologies: indigenous practices of relational design. The lecture is part of the Course in Urbanism by professor Antonio di Campli, Master in Architettura, Costruzione, Città and of the Exhibition “Things, Soil, Space: Ségou, Mali”
Abstract
For many Indigenous communities, Earth is approached as a living and relational field, constituted through the coexistence of human and more-than-human presences, forms of agency, intentions, and obligations. Such an understanding has important consequences for the way space is conceived and inhabited. Architecture and urban space emerge within ongoing relations of care, reciprocity, and situated knowledge, rather than as autonomous formal operations. Indigenous practices of mutual nurturing, cultivation, and everyday maintenance generate a spatial order that is inseparable from the rhythms of life, memory, and collective responsibility. In this sense, Indigenous knowledge offers a substantive contribution to current debates on urbanism, especially where these seek to reconsider the grounds of habitation, the ethics of coexistence, and the material conditions through which shared worlds are sustained.
Speaker: Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres, UPC, Barcelona
Biography
Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres is an Ecuadorian architect and holds a PhD in urbanism. Based in Barcelona since 2020, her work examines the intersection of urban design and social sciences, exploring design and theoretical tensions with an emphasis on 'coexistence' and 'inhabiting with differences.' Drawing from her mestiza identity, she incorporates Indigenous concepts such as ch’ixi, kawsay, and pachakutik. She intertwines these with notions of body-earth, relational ecologies, threshold spaces, and contact zones, which serve as the guiding axes of her research.
Organization by:
Antonio di Campli, professor of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST and Camilla Rondot.
For more information, please contact professor Antonio di Campli or Camilla Rondot.
Abstract
For many Indigenous communities, Earth is approached as a living and relational field, constituted through the coexistence of human and more-than-human presences, forms of agency, intentions, and obligations. Such an understanding has important consequences for the way space is conceived and inhabited. Architecture and urban space emerge within ongoing relations of care, reciprocity, and situated knowledge, rather than as autonomous formal operations. Indigenous practices of mutual nurturing, cultivation, and everyday maintenance generate a spatial order that is inseparable from the rhythms of life, memory, and collective responsibility. In this sense, Indigenous knowledge offers a substantive contribution to current debates on urbanism, especially where these seek to reconsider the grounds of habitation, the ethics of coexistence, and the material conditions through which shared worlds are sustained.
Speaker: Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres, UPC, Barcelona
Biography
Fernanda Luzuriaga Torres is an Ecuadorian architect and holds a PhD in urbanism. Based in Barcelona since 2020, her work examines the intersection of urban design and social sciences, exploring design and theoretical tensions with an emphasis on 'coexistence' and 'inhabiting with differences.' Drawing from her mestiza identity, she incorporates Indigenous concepts such as ch’ixi, kawsay, and pachakutik. She intertwines these with notions of body-earth, relational ecologies, threshold spaces, and contact zones, which serve as the guiding axes of her research.
Organization by:
Antonio di Campli, professor of the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning-DIST and Camilla Rondot.
For more information, please contact professor Antonio di Campli or Camilla Rondot.