TALKS

Violent environments: Banana corporations and city forms in the Costa Rican Caribbean. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023.

Contaminated forms: agricultural landscapes, infrastructure, and spatial configuration in Costa Rican banana spaces, Toxics Roundtable, EAHN Conference, Madrid, Spain, June, 2022.

The legacy of Guido Sáenz on the production of architectural forms. Museos del Banco Central de Costa Rica, May, 2022. Image: courtesy of MBCCR.

Tropical Architecture: A working tool. Acercamientos a lo Tropical, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica, March, 2022. Image: MADC.

Enclaves bananeros en la región caribeña costarricense: cuestiones de territorio, paisaje y arquitectura. Congreso Internacional ISUF-H. December, 2021.

Free Trade Zones: Corporaciones transnacionales, grupos empresariales locales y arquitecturas globales. Jornadas de Investigación, Faculty of Engineering, University of Costa Rica.October, 2021. LINK

Ofelia Sanou Alfaro: Aportes para la exploración del entorno construido. Opening Lecture, Jornadas de Investigación, Faculty of Engineering, University of Costa Rica. October, 2021. YOU TUBE

PROJECT AND PRACTICE. A conversation between Rebeca Woodbridge and Natalia Solano.

Searching for Dissidence in the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica: Performative arts as a medium in redefining architecture’s disciplinary boundaries. Dramatic Architectures, Theatre and Performing Arts in Motion, Escola Superior Artística do Porto-Center for Studies Arnaldo Araújo CEAA, Oporto,. November, 2020 (online).

In conversation with Víctor Hugo Acuña, Archivo y prácticas arquitectónicas, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica, October, 2020.

Conceptos en Disputa, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica, October, 2020.

China in African, Latin American and Caribbean territories: Examining spatial transformations around diplomacy and economic aid, co-chair. Colonial and Postcolonial Landscapes–Center for Studies on Socioeconomic and Territory Change (Dinamia-CET) of IUL / ISCTE, Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon,Portugal. January, 2019.

Entre Método y Práctica, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica, December, 2019.

Comments on the idea of the city: images and power in “Teatralidades urbanas” Disputed Concepts, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica. April, 2019

Intervening, destroying: schools and objects, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica. November, 2018.

Architectural histories in Costa Rica can be masculine and imprecise in “Artistas y Arquitectas: A propósito de dos intervenciones”, School of Architecture and School of Visual Arts, University of Costa Rica. June, 2018

An archeology of the University Campus, School of Architecture, University of Costa Rica. May, 2018

Against a pedagogical colonization: The case of the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica. All-Ireland Architecture Research Group Conference; Waterford, Ireland. January, 2017.

Think, teach, learn: The origins of the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica. This thing called theory, Architectural Humanities Research Association, Leeds Becket University, Leeds, United Kingdom. December, 2015.

The creation of the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica from the perspective of power, knowledge and nationalism. Philosophy and Architecture International Postgraduate Conference, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. November, 2015. LINK to BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

Think-Make The pedagogical experience at the Escola do Porto. School of Architecture, San Pedro, Montes de Oca, Costa Rica, 2014.