Mah cualli xihualaca: welcome: bienvenidx
After having more than a decade of professional experience in the Urban Planning realm, my work in the past years has shifted into questioning the theories and narratives built around western Education, Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning by unveiling their connection to Colonization, Assimilation, Slavery, Ecocide, Genocide, Gender Constructs, Racism, punitive systems of Justice, and the Global capitalist system in place.
The content here, is partial and illustrative, meant to pique your curiosity, test your flexibility, and provide a glance on the topics included in my pedagogy work.
What you will find here
I offer tailored individual and collaborative classes, talks, reflections, syllabi, writing, co-writing, and publishing. The content can be extensive or specific, a whole semester class or just for one class as invitee.
You can also find flashes of past work I have been involved in when practicing planning in the spheres of active transportation, infrastructure for people with disabilities and universal accessibility, affordable housing in Alaska, legislative work, and being a graduate degree student.
Touchstones
Acalaquia | Lens
Acalaquia: to put in water, to submerge. Nahuatl.
Lens: perspective through which information is observed and interpreted.
Amo Cualcani | Anchor
Amo Cualcani: exposed, naked. Nahuatl.
Anchor: force that stabilizes the project to prevent scope drift.
Ixtia | North Star
Ixtia: to wake someone up. Nahuatl.
North Star: the long-term destination this project navigates toward.
