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Barco Galería invita a 𝒫𝒶𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒿𝑒𝓈 𝑒𝓃 𝒜𝒸𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓇𝒶𝒸𝒾ó𝓃, una conversación con el arquitecto e investigador Ignacio Lira Montes que explora cómo las infraestructuras tecnológicas participan en la construcción de imaginarios sobre el territorio chileno y en la producción de narrativas vinculadas a la aceleración tecnológica y a la transformación territorial.

A partir de la investigación desarrollada por el autor, la presentación propone una lectura crítica sobre las relaciones entre paisaje, representación e infraestructura, abordando el papel de los imaginarios en estos procesos y las tensiones que emergen entre tecnología, ecología y cultura visual.

La actividad contará con los comentarios de los curadores Serena Dambrosio @seridamb y Sergio Soto Maulén @sergiosotomaulen.

Actividad realizada con el apoyo del Magíster de Arquitectura de la Universidad del Desarrollo, en el marco del curso “Autores Fundamentales”.

Ilustración digital por @_margaritaes

📍 Viernes 7 de agosto
🕡 18:30 hrs.
📌 BARCO Galería — Santa Lucía 382, 1C, Santiago. taken in Edificio El Barco by @ilrmnts

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During the first half of 2026, we had the opportunity to develop and present “𝒮𝑒𝓃𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝒫𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓈: 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝓇𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓇𝓊𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓂𝒶𝒸𝓎” as a J-Term seminar at Harvard GSD @harvardgsd and later as part of Unmasking Space at D-ARCH ETH Zürich @unmaskingspace @arch.ethz .

Led by Victoria Suárez, with the support of Ignacio Lira, the research examines how digital technologies increasingly blur the boundaries between private and public space. Through architecture, media, platform economies, and pop culture, the project investigates how visibility, performance, and exposure have become central conditions of contemporary life.

Across both iterations, we explored how cameras, screens, and networked devices transform the home into a site of production, circulation, and labor. Drawing from architecture, film, television, reality shows, and platform-based case studies, the project traces how technological infrastructures reshape subjectivity, work, and the built environment.

At ETH Zürich, the lecture focused particularly on labor in erotic content platforms such as OnlyFans, examining the material, spatial, and economic infrastructures that sustain them and asking how platform economies reorganize visibility and architectural space.

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This work forms part of Victoria Suárez’s ongoing independent research developed at Harvard Graduate School of Design under the guidance of James Graham @jmzgraham , with additional support from Malkit Shoshan @malkit_shoshan , Marina Otero Verzier and Diane Davis. taken in Virtual World by @ilrmnts

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ᘜᖇᙓᙓᑎ ᙓᑎOᙀᘜᕼ: Oᑎ ᙓᑎᙓᖇᘜY, ᙏYTᕼS ᗩᑎᗪ Tᕼᙓ ᒪᗩᑎᗪSᙅᗩᑭᙓS Iᑎ-ᙖᙓTᙎᙓᙓᑎ

As part of the project, a speculative film imagines a near-future Chilean Patagonia transformed by the large-scale deployment of renewable energy infrastructures. Set in 2045, the narrative draws from environmental reports, energy forecasts, and peer-reviewed research examining the territorial, ecological, and social implications of the ongoing energy transition.

Developed using AI image and video generation tools, the film explores the landscapes that emerge between promises of sustainability, notions of progress, and the material realities of extraction. Through photorealistic synthetic imagery, the project reflects on contemporary cultures of acceleration and asks what it means to represent territorial transformation through technologies that are themselves embedded within extractive landscapes.

Special thanks to Rosalea Monacella @rosalea_monacella for her guidance and support throughout the development of this project.

@harvardgsd taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @ilrmnts

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SS26 🌸🌃 taken in New York by @ilrmnts

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g҉r҉e҉e҉n҉ e҉n҉o҉u҉g҉h҉: o҉n҉ e҉n҉e҉r҉g҉y҉, m҉y҉t҉h҉s҉ a҉n҉d҉ t҉h҉e҉ l҉a҉n҉d҉s҉c҉a҉p҉e҉s҉ i҉n҉-b҉e҉t҉w҉e҉e҉n҉

The publication includes interviews with three female architects and researchers—Serena Dambrosio, Linda Schilling Cuellar, and Tatiana Carbonell—whose work engages with acceleration, technological mediation, extraction, and environmental transformation. It also features a glossary developed as a constellation of concepts that emerged throughout the research process. Bringing together contemporary theory, artistic practices, historical figures, and critical terminology, it traces the cultural, political, and ecological imaginaries through which extractive landscapes are produced, contested, and reimagined.

@seridamb
@linda.schilling.cuellar
@memushka by @ilrmnts

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i lowkey have a master’s degree 🧍🏼‍♂️ taken in Harvard University by @ilrmnts

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Greeɴ Eɴoυɢн: Oɴ Eɴerɢy, Myтнѕ, αɴd тнe Lαɴdѕcαpeѕ Iɴ-Beтweeɴ

A book project developed at the Harvard GSD exploring how energy, acceleration processes, and technological mediation are reshaping the landscapes of Chilean Patagonia and configuring new visual regimes. The publication brings together essays, maps, archival material, and visual research produced throughout the last year.

Special thanks to Rosalea Monacella @rosalea_monacella for all the guidance throughout Open Project: Energy Dreams, and to James Graham @jmzgraham for his support throughout the last two years of research.

Additional thanks to Marina Otero Verzier and Abby Spinak for supporting the development of many of the ideas included in this publication.

And to Linda Schilling Cuellar @linda.schilling.cuellar , Serena Dambrosio @seridamb , and Tatiana Carbonell @memushka for their collaboration through conversations and interviews that will also be shared soon.

More info soon! 🤖 taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @ilrmnts

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🫶🏻🥰🥺 taken in Spain by @ilrmnts

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We are excited to welcome Victoria Suárez and Ignacio Lira next Thursday!

SENSUAL PUBLICS: INFRASTRUCTURES OF INTIMACY

This lecture unmasks intimacy as a political and spatial infrastructure, examining how architecture, media, and the body organize visibility, affect, and exposure today. Drawing on theories of intimacy, spectatorship, and political economy, it asks what it means to design for constant visibility in a techno-capitalist world, where private life becomes productive and intimacy is mobilized as labour. Through historical, cinematic, domestic, urban, and platform-based case studies, the lecture traces architectures of exposure—from the home to the city to digital environments—revealing how perception, subjectivity, and architectural work are reshaped by regimes of looking. The session departs from a central question: what does it mean to design for being seen, when exposure itself operates as infrastructure? In contemporary techno-capitalist contexts, architectural practice is deeply entangled with platforms, metrics, and regimes of spectatorship that convert visibility into value. Intimacy is no longer opposed to work; it is actively mobilized as a spatial, affective, and economic resource, structuring how bodies perform, how interiors function, and how cities circulate attention.

Victoria Suárez Romera is a Spanish architect and Fulbright Fellow completing a Master in Design Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her work explores intimacy and visibility across architecture, research, and exhibition-making. She has worked at MVRDV, Dorte Mandrup, and most recently at the Brooklyn Museum.

Ignacio Lira Montes is a Chilean architect and Master in Design Studies candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work bridges architecture, curatorial practice, and decolonial research, focusing on infrastructures, media, and visual culture. He currently teaches and works as a Teaching Assistant at Harvard GSD. by @ilrmnts

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nieves by @ilrmnts

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academia by @ilrmnts

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Hey sexy GSDsers! We’ll be teaching a J-Term seminar titled “𝒮𝑒𝓃𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝒫𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓈: 𝐼𝓃𝒻𝓇𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓇𝓊𝒸𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐼𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓂𝒶𝒸𝓎.”
The seminar explores the sensual as a political and spatial category, examining how architecture, media, and the body shape contemporary publics. We will study how intimacy becomes infrastructural in a techno-capitalist world where private and public increasingly blur. Through readings, film, and spatial exercises, students will analyze architectures of exposure—from the home to the city to digital platforms—and gain tools to critically interpret and design spaces through regimes of visibility.

See u soon!
𝓍𝑜𝓍𝑜💋
Victoria ♡ Nacho

♡ January 9
♡ 11 AM – 2 PM (EST)
♡ Via Zoom taken in Harvard Graduate School of Design by @ilrmnts

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