Enlace Arquitectura has been invited to participate in the 1st Congress “Views toward the Transformation of Maracaibo City,” organized by the Municipality of Maracaibo. Sergio Dos Santos presents the experience of the project Sabana Grande Boulevard Pavement built between 2009 and 2011 and commissioned by PDVSA La Estancia. The presentation is part of an ensemble of reflections on strategies to improve the livelihood of citizens through significant urban interventions.
The exhibition titled “Lets Meet Each Other,” presented by Espacio Anna Frank at the Sala TAC at the Trasnocho Cultural in Caracas Venezuela during the months of October and November 2019, and curated by artist and photographer Carlos Ancheta, created several discussion spaces in parallel, one of which was titled “Actions: the barrio is city.” Enlace Arquitectura was among the invited guests with a presentation by María Virginia Millan, together with María Isabel Peña from CCScity450 and Cheo Carvajal from Ciudad Laboratorio. It was an opportunity to disseminated the work led by civil society in terms of integrating the barrio and the city.
Enlace Arquitectura presented the project of public spaces and sidewalks of Beethoven Avenue in Bello Monte, a project elaborated for Banesco Bank in 2017-2018. Slides of images were projected on the walls of buildings, on the very same Beethoven Avenue July 26, 2019, as part of the celebration of the 452 years of Caracas organized by CCScity450 and Fundación Espacio.
"Integration in Caracas Process" sixth event was held on Saturday July 20 in La Palomera. People from all parts of the city were invited to the "Green Meeting La Palomera: connecting gardens, orchards, nurseries and other experiences in urban vegetation" to consider vegetation as an integration strategy and as a fundamental part of urban life. The event was structured first with a tour of several neighborhood gardens in the community, followed by a conversation on urban garden experiences in different parts of the city with people invited to share their knowledge on issues of landscape and harvest.
Program:
Part I: Tour of floral and vegetable gardens
Thais Noriega, Elizabeth Hernández, Marina Matos, Alfonso Carrasco y William Díaz
Part II: Discussion regarding vegetation, planting, fertilizer and crops at the La Cruz Esplanade with invited guests:
Yrama Capote / Grupo Ecológico San Pedro
Argelia Silva / Ex Directora del Jardín Botánico
Yoandy Medina / Huertos Urbanos
Enrique Blanco / Paisajista
José Luis Morales / Experto en huertos urbanos y patios productivos
On Saturday, July 13, the Founder’s Celebration was held in the Santo Domingo sector of La Palomera, Baruta Municipality. The purpose of the event was to make the unknown urban history of a part of the city visible. Founders of La Palomera and their descendants shared the stories and anecdotes of how the settlement process began. Many remember their dependence of the Church and the rent they paid them as landlords. The guests who attended had the opportunity to dance joropo central with neighbors, to the beat of music played by musicians of the Bigott Foundation and dancers Sara Medina, Marialejandra Orozco and Harold Palacios of Ensayo Colectivo.
Program:
-Walk from Hacienda la Trinidad to La Palomera.
-Welcome to visitors in the Plaza Bolívar de Baruta
-Colloquium with members of the founding families of La Palomera.
-Live music and joropo central dancing with the Bigott Foundation.
Culminating with a sancocho that was shared between the community and the attendees!
A new invitation to celebrate the streets of Bello Monte occurred Saturday July 6, as part of the More Night Caracas initiative organized by Ciudad Laboratorio. Enlace Foundation was invited to disseminate the program "Integration Process Caracas” that is taking place in the informal settlement La Palomera, and invites people to reflect on the real and symbolic integration of the city, overcoming distinctions between the "formal" and "informal" city.
The Nature of Cities Summit took place for the very first time at Sorbonne University, Jussieu Marie Curie campus in Paris France on June 6, 2019. Organized by David Maddox and a very capable multidisciplinary team of artists, ecologists, activists, landscape architects and planners, the summit presented several discussion panels focusing on different aspects of a green city. Elisa participated in a panel together with David Simon -London and Cape Town, Fish Yu-Shenzhen and Samarth Das-Mumbai where they spoke about making livable places.
On Saturday, May 25, the "Mobile Museum" event and the traditional celebration of the Cruz de Mayo in the community of La Palomera, were held as part of the program Integration in Process Caracas, (IPC) whose intention is to generate recognition processes of the barrio as part of the city.
The event began with a procession of the La Palomera model from Bolívar Square in Baruta to the La Cruz de La Palomera sector, followed by a conversation with the barrio´s founding families and Baruta's chronicler; the celebration of Cruz de Mayo; presentations and exhibitions of art workshops held with various community groups as a result of the call for proposals among artists "Art and community, proposals for integration." Another component of the celebration that was rescued from previous edition was the organization of games and competitions among the children of the community. As part of the exhibition, videos were presented with testimonies from the community, a record of the IPC program and fragments of novels and movies filmed at La Palomera. The Manifesto to the Complete City was read in front of the whole community, followed by a sancocho that was shared among all.
The event unites the efforts of many: Enlace Foundation, Ciudad Laboratorio, Fundación Bigott, Puntos Solidarios soup kitchen, Alcaldía Baruta, Laboratorio Ciudadano de No Violencia Activa, Ensayo Colectivo, Taller Cuadernillos, Taller Verde, Colegio Miguel José Sanz, Colegio Concentración 094, Liceo Alejo Fortique y Preescolar Manuel Felipe Rugeles.
Elisa is part of a conversation initiated by Agustín Schang and Laura González that explores contemporary architecture models operating Across the Americas. The group was comprised by Julian Palacio, Jorge Ambrosi & Gabriela Etchegaray, Rafael Gamo, Elisa Silva and Maite Borjabad Lopez-Pastor. Agustin and Laura later summarized the content of the discussions:
“They addressed topics about materiality & tectonics as tools for identity, the afterlife of projects, the act of representation affected by geographic and cultural contexts, visual narratives & composing of an image, circulation of references in the construction of power, landscapes of opportunity, heritage, counterflow: from north to south on how to build a practice and what happens to nonreciprocal timing and the times of inequality we are living - this not to search for a "common ground", but to reveal some of the interactions and movements of the different architectures and environments of the Americas. Seeking to elevate the quality and understanding of our built environment, spark lively conversations, trigger an ongoing exchange, and to think about the future by extending our interests beyond the object with four walls.”
You are invited on Sunday, March 24, 2019, to the Third meeting of the "Art, pedagogy and city" lecture series.
“Complete city, overflowing city” is the title of the event. We invite everyone to come observe, understand and record spaces, while touring the La Palomera neighborhood in Baruta. There will be six different routes to discover places and situations with urban values we can begin to recognize.
The topics may be of interest to anyone who wants to join the construction of a complete city: architects, artists, urban designers, planners, urban planners, city activists, students and city lovers.
We are offering transportation from Plaza Altamira at 1:30 pm to the Plaza El Cristo in Baruta; and back at the end of the activity. Those who wish to go directly to Plaza El Cristo, may park on the service street of the Baruta Municipality building.