cv toma_ june 2016
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Santiago de Chile Curriculum Vitae
TOMA is a professional collective that has operated since 2012 in Santiago de
Chile. The collective develops experimental and collective projects -action and
research- in conflictive or forgotten territories in the contemporary neoliberal context,
in order to generate alternative social ecosystems. Its practice is affected by the global
stage of several massive crisis and social movements. Its production is self-managed,
hands on and constructed with scarce resources.
TOMA is currently is composed of 5 architects: Leandro Cappetto, Mathias Klenner,
Eduardo Pérez, Ignacio Rivas, and Ignacio Saavedra.
Projects El Comedor de la Factoría*
Year: 2013
Location: MilM2 Cultural Center, Factoría Italia- / Quinta Normal Park –Mini Maker Faire.
Meeting space to articulate collaboration networks between people working in Factoria Italia, Santiago.
It’s portable structure made possible the reinstallation of the device in different contexts.
El Laberinto / The Labyrinth*
Year: 2013
Location: Mapocho Station, Santiago Downtown.
Urban intervention for Hecho en Casa Festival 2013. The Labyrinth is a device of citizen and context
articulation, and its purpose was to re-signify an abandoned residual space from the urban
transportation projects.
Research UFT: A Case of Civic Participation for the Construction of Community Spaces
Year: 2013 /2014
The case was the project La Azotea. WE used the methodologies of research /Action. The case was
observed throughout three stages of collaborative work: diagnose, planning and execution. Funded by
Finis Terrae University grants for research.
El Taller/The workshop: Architecture for Kids
Year: 2013
Location: MilM2 Cultural Center -Factoría Italia-
Educational Project focused on working with children and adolescents, with the purpose of teaching
awareness of space and learning horizontal methodologies of education.
La Ocupación / The Occupation*
Year: 2014
Location: MilM2 Cultural Center, Factoría Italia.
In collaboration with MilM2. It was an exercise of temporary occupation that intended to explore
methodologies of collaborative production. It was a multiple intervention that used the figure of an
Occasional City, developed by multiple collectives and professionals. During five days and nights, the
community proposed infrastructures and programming.
Patio 16
Year: 2014
Location: MIM (Museo Interactivo Mirador)
Textile permanent intervention for a shaded patio at the museum.
Exploraciones Urbanas / Urban explorations*
Year: 2014
Location: Universidad de Chile / UTEM / UNIACC
Urban Explorations is an interdisciplinary collective that operates in Santiago de Chile. It develops
urban territorial research through walking as a research tool, imparting classes and workshops in several
universities.
YAP _ Young Architects Program PS1 / MOMA
Year: 2014
Location: Parque Araucano, Santiago
Finalists. Development of the architectonic design for an intervention at Parque Araucano. The project
aimed to unveil the remarkable, yet forgotten urban and political history of the site to intervene.
La Azotea / The Rooftop*
Year: 2014
Location: Diana Cultural Center, Santiago
Residence at a cultural center in Santiago downtown. La Azotea was an Urban Laboratory for
community interaction. TOMA developed a research and explored mechanisms of civic linkage in San
Diego neighborhood, working with the local community and students.
Ñoquis del 29 / Gnocchis of the 29th*
Location: 2014
Location: Diana Santiago (Centro Cultural)
Several dinners gathered hundreds of people in this cultural activity that had a double purpose: to
render visible and open the process of La Azotea, and to raise the funds for the achievement of the
project.
Taller Re-Organizaciones Territoriales / Workshop: Territorial Reorganizations
Year: 2014
Location: Diana Santiago (Centro Cultural)
The workshop imparted for 50 architecture students from Finis Terrae University. During three weeks
they explored analytical observation methods in the San Diego neighborhood, and then designed and
carried out strategies for community linkage and contextual occupation.
Comedor del GAM / Dining Room*
Year: 2014
Location: GAM Cultural Center
Dining room is a project of temporary occupation at the central plaza of the Gabriela Mistral Cultural
Center (GAM), the largest public cultural center in Santiago de Chile. This urban intervention lasted for
6 weeks, proposing the appropriation of this space as a citizen and festive place, while bringing back the
memory of the original building -currently GAM, formerly UNCTAD III. Comedor proposed a space
for quotidian usage, while it explores the semantics of the building and its politic relations.
Infante 1415 #1: Monstruitos de la Hilanderia / The Monsters of the Factory*
Year: 2015
Location: Infante 1415 Creation Factory, Providencia, Santiago.
TOMA was commissioned to develop the furniture as part of the refurbishment of Infante 1415, and
old thread factory to be converted into a new cultural center held by the local district government. The
MONSTRUITOS DE LA HILANDERIA furniture series developed for this project explores two
basic principles: the reclamation of found materials from the factory and the application of simple
construction techniques.
ESPECULOPOLIS: Urban Speculation Device*
Year: 2015 – In Process
Location: Chicago Architectural Biennial - October 2015
TOMA was invited to participate at the first Chicago Biennial in 2015. For the opportunity we
developed ESPECULOPOLIS, a research that inquires on urban implications of Santiago de Chile as
the first experiment of a Neoliberal economy, and offers an opportunity for open discussion and
reflections. Especulopolis brought and exposed four specific cases from Santiago de Chile, and three
collective actions were developed during our stay in Chicago. Currently, Especulopolis is about to
experiment new methodologies and investigate new cases of urban crimes, now our local context.
MicroConversaciones _ SuperConversaciones*
Year: 2015 – in Process
Location: TOMA´s office.
Meetings for the exchange and discussion of experiences linked to territorial and organizational
practices. These interdisciplinary congregations aim to promote the generation of a common agenda.
Escuela TOMA
Year: 2014 – In Process
Location: Universidad de Chile - Universidad Finis Terrae – UDLA
Development of academic courses related to experimentation, research, methodological exploration for
urban information-collecting. The members of Toma have imparted classes in subjects such as City
Laboratory, Urban Explorations, Critical Research and Architecture Workshops.
Mes de la Especulación Inmobiliaria / Fanzine “Nueva Recoleta”
Año: 2015
Lugar: Mil.M2 / Factoría Italia
Invited by Milm2 Cultural Center to produce a Fanzine in the context of a broader project “The Month
of Real Estate Speculation”, TOMA created a speculative fiction on the territories where our office was
located at the time.
La Sede, Taller Azotea UDLA / The Headquartes, Workshop at the Rooftop UDLA*
Year: 2015
Location: Las Américas University
A six-week program with 40 architecture students dedicated to the creation of programs, interventions
and infrastructures for the enabling a new space for the students. The process consisted of two stages:
Imaginary and Community Linkage, and Design and Construction. As the first stage finished, the
program was defined: The Students Headquarters, a place made by and for them, an infrastructure that
aims to trigger a new empowered organization. In the second phase, the students designed and built the
headquarters, stablished the protocols of its functioning and presented the project to the community.
Infante 1415 #2: The Patio*
Year: 2015 -2016
Location: Infante 1415 Creation Factory, Providencia, Santiago.
TOMA was commissioned by the local government to guide the process of the public remodeling of
the Patio of Infante 1415 Creation Factory, a second stage of the infrastructural renovation. The mean
approach for this phase was the inclusion of the members of the local community into the design and
construction process, in order to strengthen a group of empowered neighbors who would be able to
organize, appropriate and make decisions over the territory.
Text for the Book “Fábula Santiago”, by Camillo Boano and Francisco Vergara*
Year: 2016
Narrative/Critical text about issues related to Neoliberal Urbanism in the context of the daily
disciplinary practice in Santiago de Chile.
“Device for Territorial Resistance”, for the book “Público Privado” by Plan Común.
Year: 2016
Conceptual proposal for the books, that invites to generate formal strategies to consolidate new public
spaces. Our Device for Territorial Resistance aims to promote the visualization, congregation and
strategical positioning in territorial conflicts.
Exhibition “Occupied” - “Never Discuss Politics at Home”
Year: 2016 – in Process
Location: RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne
TOMA has been invited to participate at Occupy, a collective exhibition brings together local and
international practitioners and showcases proposals for housing more with less, retrofitting, adapting
and repurposing existing structures and environments. Occupied anticipates the critical design
approaches, ideas and strategies of the imminent future.
http://designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/occupied
Contribution at “La Barraca”
Year: 2016 – in process
Location: La Florida, Santiago.
TOMA was invited to propose a project at the new venue of La Barraca, a countercultural center that
has been functioning for over 25 years. The intervention will involve the community to create an
archive of the history of La Barraca.