Gracias al Dr.Jungmook Moon y su alumna Soojin Yang por las fotos de nuestro proyecto de exposicion Tijuana_San Diego en la Bienal de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de Seoul.
Month: September 2017
Tijuana_San Diego Region at the 2017 Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale
The proposal for our work at the 2017 Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale illustrates that after years of theories of socio-cultural hybridity and cross-border economic interaction, the shared landscape of the region could become the impetus for a different type of political framework. The Tijuana River Watershed and its natural systems can engender a new direction in the future planning of this mega region. The idea is not new, the Diegueño territory already spread across California and Baja California before the Spanish arrived. In 1974, Appleyard and Lynch focused on a shared landscape that encouraged novel cultural and economic forms and later in 1996 a watershed boundary systems was developed by Woodward and Durall, et al.
At this uncertain moment of the sustainability of our natural ecological systems, and the overreaching of global trade, we need to establish a new organic infrastructure that can spawn a new political spatial reality.
The San Diego / Tijuana installation focuses on the natural landscape both cities share. The Tijuana River Watershed is a 4,532 km2 basin that lies on both sides of the international border. The large topographic map of the San Diego – Tijuana region with the outline of the watershed is the platform for the exhibition.
The exhibition proposes to contemplate landscape as the new amalgamating medium that binds regional urban development and reconsiders its significance in the shaping of urban policies that can blur political boundaries.
The cross-border economy and built environment is displayed as a process of exchanges and interactions that allow peculiar ways of making the city, as one side is directed by strict and planned urban policy, the other side is assembled by organic and expedient necessity.
Today, the Living Border is a contested landscape, nonetheless it also holds the future for an innovative, sustainable and geo-economic urban paradigm.
La exposición de la región San Diego / Tijuana se centra en el paisaje natural que ambas ciudades comparten. La Cuenca del Río Tijuana con una superficie 4.532 km2 se encuentra en ambos lados de la frontera. El mapa topográfico de la región de San Diego – Tijuana que muestra el contorno de la cuenca se encuentra trazado en la superficie del piso de la sala de exposición. La exposición propone contemplar el paisaje como el medio que vincula el desarrollo urbano regional y reconsidera su importancia en la conformación de políticas urbanas que pueden desvanecer las fronteras políticas.
La economía transfronteriza y el entorno construido se manifiestan como un proceso de intercambios e interacciones que permiten formas peculiares de hacer ciudad, ya que un lado está dirigido por una política urbana estricta y planificada, el otro lado es construido por una necesidad orgánica y oportuna.
Hoy en día, la frontera viviente (Living Border) es un paisaje controvertido, pero también sostiene el futuro de un paradigma urbano transformador, sostenible y geoeconómico.
Biennale Directors: Hyungmin Pai
Alejandra Zaera-Polo
50 cities exhibit curator: Helen Choi
TJ/SD curator: Rene Peralta +Genérica Arquitectura
Design team: Alejandro Santander, Denise Luna
Project collaborator: Alberto Pulido. Elias Sanz
Project consultants: Dr. Tito Alegria
Dr. Jungmook Moon
Dr. Jungmook Moon
Institutional consultants:
Instituto Metropolitano de Planeación, TJ
San Diego State University
San Diego Association of Governments
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Instituto Metropolitano de Planeación, TJ
San Diego State University
San Diego Association of Governments
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Photo credits:
Monica Arreola
Alfonso Caraveo
Gonzalo González
Larry Herzog
Monica Arreola
Alfonso Caraveo
Gonzalo González
Larry Herzog
Sound art:
Roberto Romero Molina (Tijuana)
Margaret Noble (San Diego)
Roberto Romero Molina (Tijuana)
Margaret Noble (San Diego)
Illustration art:
Charles Glaubitz
Charles Glaubitz