Homo Faber 2.0: politics of digital in Latin America (original) (raw)

"Homo Faber 2.0: politics of digital in Latin America" Exhibition takes technology and politics as a reflection in Latin America of the consolidation of new technologies in the architectural production since the second decade of the 21st century - as Gabriela Celani (2016) also pointed out when she reviewed some case studies that were shown in the first exhibition. Although the academy in the region promotes explorations with emerging technology, its progress is the result of the policy of those countries that have the most economic resources and research funding to make it sustainable in universities and architecture studios (Sperling, Herrera, Scheeren, 2015). For Homo Faber 2.0, the organizing committee selected 37 projects from a total of 61 proposals. They were distributed in three categories: - 12 projects related to design collaboration processes for changes in society with activities aimed at citizens in particular and strategies of subversion in the use of digital technologies. - 19 projects related to processes and prototypes of conceptual research using formal and material experimentation, as well as the technological development of new techniques and products. - 6 projects related to artisan-digital hybridism / neocraft / cultural identity that promotes the mixed use of artisanal and digital techniques for the creation of the artifact.