CIUDADLAB Pamphlet

CIUDADLAB is a research and exhibition driven platform for examining and revealing the critical or emergent issues formulating the contemporary production of cities. One of the key questions that has guided our work from the outset departing from an architectural background is, how is it possible, today, not to understand and shape architectural and urban thought through an expanded disciplinary framework? With this analytical lens, we believe one is better prepared to confront the complexities inherent to the production of architecture and the city by incorporating the intricate social and political –consensual or antagonistic– relations that most of the time are not fully apprehended within the field of architecture and are embraced by the disciplines deciding the city as active or passive agents. CIUDADLAB* was founded in 2004 in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Marcelo López-Dinardi and Oscar Oliver-Didier. Is based in New York since 2012 with collaborators in Berkeley, London, Rhode Island and San Juan.