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María Tula García Méndez

TRAZA

Madrid, Spain
María has a Master's degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Madrid and is specialised in Urban Planning. She is a founding partner of Improvistos/TRAZA. María is experienced in designing proposals for urban regeneration and coordinating processes for the participatory transformation of our habitat. She is committed to the improvement of living conditions through creativity and experimenting with graphic tools to pose questions and seek alternatives.

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Improbable landscapes (Paisaxes improbables)


An inquiry into the Galician territory and its heterogeneity through drawing

Improbable landscapes (Paisaxes improbables)


An inquiry into the Galician territory and its heterogeneity through drawing
Investigating the needs and tensions of a territory in an experiential way
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

'Improbable Landscapes' is a series of drawings; but above all it is a search to better understand the stories and ways of inhabiting that have shaped these contradictory places so frequent in the Galician territory: neither urban nor rural, neither new nor ancient...

This project aims to produce new, different views on a territory in process: to participate in it, to ask questions and look for its potentialities. In a certain sense, we could even say that it is a way of caring for the territory, listening to it, (psycho)analyzing it while trying to read its signals, look for its tracks, understand its patterns and symbols. It seeks to appreciate it in its complexity and find its beauty as it is.

The act of hand drawing allows us to see and express what cannot be counted in words, what may not be visible to the eyes. Drawing changes the way we look, and therefore, the relationship we have with these places, how we inhabit and how we plan to intervene in them.


These drawings were exhibited in the main local showroom in the summer of 2019 and many of the neighbours were able to see them

Improbable landscapes (Paisaxes improbables)


An inquiry into the Galician territory and its heterogeneity through drawing

Improbable landscapes (Paisaxes improbables)


An inquiry into the Galician territory and its heterogeneity through drawing
Investigating the needs and tensions of a territory in an experiential way
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

'Improbable Landscapes' is a series of drawings; but above all it is a search to better understand the stories and ways of inhabiting that have shaped these contradictory places so frequent in the Galician territory: neither urban nor rural, neither new nor ancient...

This project aims to produce new, different views on a territory in process: to participate in it, to ask questions and look for its potentialities. In a certain sense, we could even say that it is a way of caring for the territory, listening to it, (psycho)analyzing it while trying to read its signals, look for its tracks, understand its patterns and symbols. It seeks to appreciate it in its complexity and find its beauty as it is.

The act of hand drawing allows us to see and express what cannot be counted in words, what may not be visible to the eyes. Drawing changes the way we look, and therefore, the relationship we have with these places, how we inhabit and how we plan to intervene in them.


These drawings were exhibited in the main local showroom in the summer of 2019 and many of the neighbours were able to see them


Idea by

María Tula García Méndez
TRAZA
Madrid
Spain
María has a Master's degree in Architecture from the Technical University of Madrid and is specialised in Urban Planning. She is a founding partner of Improvistos/TRAZA. María is experienced in designing proposals for urban regeneration and coordinating processes for the participatory transformation of our habitat. She is committed to the improvement of living conditions through creativity and experimenting with graphic tools to pose questions and seek alternatives.