Space
for
architecture
VISITA LIGA, ESPACIO PARA ARQUITECTURA
Lunes a Jueves de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m.
Viernes de 10 a.m. a 3 p.m.
A partir del 15 de abril, sábados de 11 a.m. a 6 p.m.
IG:@ligadf o info@liga-df.com
Space
for
architecture
LIGA, Space for Architecture is an independent platform founded in Mexico City in 2011 that promotes Latin American contemporary architecture through exhibitions, conferences and workshops.
Calle Doctor Erazo 176,
Col. Doctores, Del. Cuauhtémoc
CP 06720 Ciudad de México
VISITA LIGA, ESPACIO PARA ARQUITECTURA
Lunes a Jueves de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m.
Viernes de 10 a.m. a 3 p.m.
A partir del 15 de abril, sábados de 11 a.m. a 6 p.m.
IG:@ligadf o info@liga-df.com
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"The machine is invented to respond to specific needs. Once it exists, the operator can go far beyond its original capacities: by breaking the rules imposed by the machine itself, creative outcomes emerge that were unimagined before using the machine, before breaking its rules."
Felipe Ehrenberg
Our second open call borrows its title from the book by Stevphen Shukaitis, lmaginal Machines [1], to discuss the productive structures that operate on the basis of a radical and collective imagination. A mechanism that is activated by social self-determination and joint action and that is the fruit of sharing the experience, knowledge and techniques that ground us as a society.
Leaving aside any deux ex machina mechanism, the structures we would like to assembie avoid a happy ending, where this is produced by standardized modes of operation. lmaginal machines help us to construct a vision of how to live together in the world, dismantling the state of comfortable individualism in which most of us live. Machines that are in a continuous state of trial and error, operating on the basis of their own dysfunctionality "lt might be that imaginal machines only work by breaking down. [...] By reopening the question of recuperation, the inevitable drive to integrate the power of social insurgency back in to the werking of capital and the state."[2] Only in this way can we create possibilities where the shared imagination can combine different ecologies of knowledge in the service of social change.
We are open to both real and/or imaginary projects that use installation, historica! documents and archive material, performance, or publications that refer to the creation of these imaginal machines within architecture as antagonists of the status quo, whether using specific cases or those under development.
The winner proposal would be shown in LIGA as part of the annual exhibitions program.
LIGA’s curatorial focus is on architecture as a reflexive practice and a discipline in which there converge different interests, practices and processes, often intangible at first sight. The conceptual process behind the invited architect’s practice has frequently been the principal axis of the interventions. From the Interstitial spaces in Adamo Faiden’s proposal, the Delicate Balance in the installation by Carla Juacaba, the Atmosphere in Paisajes Emergentes’ work, or Frida Escobedo’s work on Time, all the exhibits at LIGA have materialized characteristics of their architecture with experimental proposals.