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Natalia Matesanz Ventura, Clara Guixeras Miró

cumuloLimbo studio

http://www.cumulolimbo.com

Madrid, Spain
Cumulolimbo studio has a diffuse, distributed, and changeable work structure. We collaborate with people and companies from around the world. The practice was founded by Natalia Matesanz (b. 1984) and since its start in 2011, it has attracted attention for its interdisciplinary approach to architecture and space. We do research and material experiments with spaces and artifacts of human scale, from affective, recycling, and grassroots perspectives.

Call for ideas 2021

The Loisaida real catalog, an urban incubator for everyday life


Re-programming the public through Loisaida´s historic network of community gardens in the Lower East Side (NYC)

The Loisaida real catalog, an urban incubator for everyday life


Re-programming the public through Loisaida´s historic network of community gardens in the Lower East Side (NYC)
A catalog to learn from the past of the gardens, while incorporating some bio-technological upgrades for the future
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Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

The project digitally identifies and expands the physical and affective legacy of the gardens (which revalorize reproduction and economically non-productive activities). It also engages with the community and civic organizations through a catalog that reviews the existing devices on the gardens. Understanding them as a departing point for prototyping, instead of just a testimony of the past, these devices are put in dialogue with today´s discourses on ecology, urban permaculture, or Anthropocene. The project upgrades the orchards, windmills, compost systems or water tanks by inviting designers, artists, or scientists to cede their ongoing investigations and prototypes to be tried in Loisaida. Incorporating nature-based and biotechnological solutions, biohacking techniques, self-produced AI, the prototypes increase urban biodiversity, inter-species cohabitation, air purification and generate life´s resilience confronting climatic emergency and health challenges.


The Loisaida real catalog, an urban incubator for everyday life


Re-programming the public through Loisaida´s historic network of community gardens in the Lower East Side (NYC)

The Loisaida real catalog, an urban incubator for everyday life


Re-programming the public through Loisaida´s historic network of community gardens in the Lower East Side (NYC)
A catalog to learn from the past of the gardens, while incorporating some bio-technological upgrades for the future
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

The project digitally identifies and expands the physical and affective legacy of the gardens (which revalorize reproduction and economically non-productive activities). It also engages with the community and civic organizations through a catalog that reviews the existing devices on the gardens. Understanding them as a departing point for prototyping, instead of just a testimony of the past, these devices are put in dialogue with today´s discourses on ecology, urban permaculture, or Anthropocene. The project upgrades the orchards, windmills, compost systems or water tanks by inviting designers, artists, or scientists to cede their ongoing investigations and prototypes to be tried in Loisaida. Incorporating nature-based and biotechnological solutions, biohacking techniques, self-produced AI, the prototypes increase urban biodiversity, inter-species cohabitation, air purification and generate life´s resilience confronting climatic emergency and health challenges.



Idea by

Natalia Matesanz Ventura, Clara Guixeras Miró
cumuloLimbo studio
Madrid
Spain
Cumulolimbo studio has a diffuse, distributed, and changeable work structure. We collaborate with people and companies from around the world. The practice was founded by Natalia Matesanz (b. 1984) and since its start in 2011, it has attracted attention for its interdisciplinary approach to architecture and space. We do research and material experiments with spaces and artifacts of human scale, from affective, recycling, and grassroots perspectives.