PROJECTS

The "Río Turbio / Valle Ribera" project, led by DisLocal and FAU-UCV, is an immersive pedagogical program and research workshop focused on the Turbio Valley in Lara, Venezuela. The initiative, which earned recognition at the XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU) for its community-driven, frugal design approaches, involved over 100 participants in on-site research and design. You can find more details in the original project description (see left menu on desktop version. 

Understanding one of the capital city's most emblematic cases in the consequences of mismanaged environmental assets, DisLocal undertakes a leading chapter in a publication that can mold research towards environment as personhood. 

University Central of Venezuela partnered with Dislocal in 2023-2025 to develop three summer programs for its architecture students. The purpose was to study on-site political-socio-economic contexts vis-a-vis traveling to development sites. Student study the seed phase of project conceptualizations with small budgets. Many ended up being ethereal small scale projects with processes taking over front-and-center center stage, with community consent and participation, local materials, mirroring Global South informal design processes so those studying design can formulate their own prototypes.

DisLocal and Caracas' Catholic University Andres Bello (UCAB’s) Fashion and Architecture School have launched the Diploma in Cultural Eco-Design to merge design approaches with social sciences through an immersive program connecting global creatives to Venezuelan roots for sustainable design projects. The curriculum, focusing on regional materials like Tintorero clay and Quíbor textiles, spans Curated Fashion and Architectural Design, culminating in an international exhibition of student work. For more information, please visit the DisLocal website, switch to the desktop version, and click "Diploma" under the left-side menu. 

Researching innovative housing models, DisLocal took students to visit Casa Mara Project to understand models that break the mold in architecture. 

Since 2015, members of DisLocal had been studying the informal settlement in a high altitude mountain that was formed after a Farm house closed and its workers settled into their own housing not too far from the original plantation site. The informal settlement is nestled next to a UNESCO protected colonial style municipality ads part of Caracas.