The following summarizes a unit I helped to teach at the AA Visiting School in Mexico City.

The unit is interested in exploring the expansion of the architects’ role in larger territories and how this expansion is coupled with their ability to design and can be achieved by the use of digital tools. Oaxaca Central Valleys will be used as a test bed for this methodology and the river Atoyac as the spine to project the potential future of Oaxaca City and surrounding towns within a hypothetical future by 2032.

The unit will provide the necessary information to work on the site and will present the work to Casa de la Ciudad, and NGO’s based in Oaxaca that works in the improvement of public space and facilities in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca.

The unit expects the students to engage with digital simulations and produce a series of Dynamic Cartographies as the outcome to represent their projects and ideas. A series of short tutorials will be introduced to teach students how to present the evolution of their projects over time, integrate digital simulations into their designs and implement the project as territorial policies.

Compilaton video AAVS Mexico City

Team: Silvia Ribot, Alfredo Ramírez, Clara Olóriz, Liam Mouritz.