About

Lucía Jalón Oyarzun is an architect and researcher. She graduated from the ETSAM School of Architecture of Madrid where she also defended her PhD “Exception and the rebel body: the political as generator of a minor architecture” in 2017. She is currently Head of Research at ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at EPFL, where she continues her interdisciplinary research on secrecy and clandestinity as minor spatial compositions under capitalism, the effects of coded environments on the body’s spatial capabilities, and maps as instruments of (dis)orientation. From 2017 to 2020, she directed the School of Arts SUR at the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid. She has also been a Research Fellow at the Center of Digital Visual Studies (UZH), and taught for several years at the ETSAM School of Architecture of Madrid. She has been invited to several international universities and her work, ranging from scientific production to cultural critique, has been published in several journals and publications.

17.06.2022 [Talks]

Code Poetry and the Production of Minor Architectures in Coded Environments

With the Internet of Things and the popularisation of AI, our living environments are becoming coded environments: every singularity is inscribed in its digital fabric. These informational media are “containers of possibility” (Durham Peters, 2016), shaping what’s possible and what’s not (to do, to build or even to imagine). As architectural production becomes information management... View Article

01.11.2022 [Talks]

Codificación Urbana en Tiempos Computacionales: la Influencia de la Digitalización en las Formas de Inteligencia Urbana

La codificación urbana ha sido una constante a lo largo de la historia, diversos códigos tácitos o explícitos han configurado sus formas materiales y prácticas socioecológicas. Hoy, más de un siglo y medio después de la revolución del control que configuró económica y técnicamente las sociedades de la información contemporáneas (James R. Beniger, 1989) y... View Article

08.05.2019 [Talks]

Cuerpos Anestesiados y Estéticas de lo Clandestino en el Interior Totalizante del Capitalismo Contemporáneo

El ser humano es pura exterioridad. Nuestra condición natural es la exposición pues, tal y como escribía el filósofo holandés Spinoza, “es imposible que el ser humano no sea una parte de la naturaleza”. No podemos protegernos en el aislamiento y el encierro. Siempre somos en nuestros encuentros, de donde se sigue que siempre estamos... View Article