top of page
DISLOCAL w.png

OUR METHOD: REAL-TIME PROTOTYPING

Stage 1

We think, ruminate, offer ourselves a chance to discovery our limits.

 

This stage is conceptual, theoretical and virtual. 

Weekly desk crits, climate change knowledge enmeshed into the choices we make for project designs and systems approaches.

We work as a team.


We think, ruminate, offer ourselves a chance to discovery our limits. This stage is conceptual, theoretical and virtual. Weekly desk crits, climate change knowledge enmeshed into the choices we make for project designs and systems approaches.
We share knowledge testing disciplinary limits. We develop strategies, concepts and tools for radical situations. We submit the ideas for consultation. We make plural decisions. We carefully review the ways of operating around the project. We design new ideas for the global periphery.

DIAGRAMME.jpg
digrama de escalas de contenido (1).jpg

Stage 2

Conceptualize in the field.

 

We go to cities in worldwide to learn net zero engineering and architectural references from firms across the globe.


We meet in-person and work out conceptual ideas, final critiques on projects in-person.

 

We create a community, mold into a network, and pivot into a profession. 

 

We build capacity for the technical development of skills needed to build the city of the future. 

We conceptualize and learn by experimenting.

We meet in person. We work together to strengthen the group's ideas. 

We respectfully enter each context, intervening with sensitive actions. We strengthen our technical capabilities, developing new skills for the city of the future.

Stage 3 

Dislocal cells.jpg

We construct our project together. We get our sleeves up, and build. We build in Caracas, Venezuela. We test our limits on analyzing socio-economic and political obstacles. We learn to manage them within the built prospect of our projects. 

​We archive our experience and write our book and offer our movie in small documentary pieces of 13 minutes. We play. 

We develop projects on site.


We roll up our sleeves and build in a community, in the city and in the rural countryside. We manage socioeconomic and political obstacles.

We learn to direct and create cohesion around the project.

 

We learn about sustainable public policies and the role of civil organizations and multilateral organizations in the implementation of urban initiatives.

We test our ideas in spaces with potential. We record the entire process. We wrote a book about our experiences and recorded short films.

We take risks and experiment playfully.

We measure the impact and emissions as well as the carbon footprint that each project emits.

All contents developed © DisLocal Lab and DisLocal Studio 2026. CREDITS; Executive Director/Principle: Maria (Mabe) Garcia Rincon; Co-Director/Principle: Marcos Coronel Bravo; Media Director: Khristian Ceballos; Architectural Coordinated Vision and Branding: Sara Valente and Marcelo Ertorteguy (Stereotank, Inc) and Julio Kowolenko, Rodrigo Armas (Caracas Atelier); Architect: Barbara de Sousa; Landscape Architect: Daniel Otero; Costa Rica: Antonio Salas, Walter Leone; Photographers: Julio Mesa (Casa Mara), Angel Mendoza (Rio Turbio), Website Background videos and photographies: Madelaine Mendoza and Barbara de Sousa; Paris 2024 Photography and Videos: Maria Beatriz Garcia | email: info@dislocal.org | Signed MoU affiliate of University of Bergen’s, Norway, Global Research Programme on Inequality (GRIP)

 

Institutional Governance & Proprietary Notice: All contents developed © DisLocal Lab (2024-2026) and © DisLocal Studio 2023-2025 operate under distinct contractual agreements, budgetary frameworks, and proprietary rights. Only the Executive Director and the Co-Director under credits are legally authorized to execute signatures or enter into binding agreements on behalf of their respective entities.(Lab: Maria Beatriz Garcia; Studio: Marcos Coronel). Project proposals initiated by tertiary members under DisLocal Lab or DisLocal Studio must be submitted formally in writing, including summarized meeting details, at info@dislocal.org explicitly copied. Commitments made outside of this official transparent institutional framework do not constitute legally binding proposals or representation by the organization. The Lab is not conducting projects with national entities due to the transitional nature of the current governmental institutions. All projects are international in scope, or with vetted municipal entities, universities, or civil society organizations and grassroots activist organizations. Please note current projects have their own distinct © DisLocal Lab and © Studio


Paris, France
Caracas, Venezuela
San Jose, Costa Rica
bottom of page