Informal Market Worlds I

A two-day event of presentations and discussions, ‚Informal Market Worlds‘ will bring together research on the architecture and visual culture of informal markets with a range of case studies from across the Americas and beyond.

In addition to input from theorists in the fields of urbanism and political economy, the meeting will include presentations by architects, artists and activists on a range of markets such as the La Salada market in Buenos Aires, the Tri Border Area of Ciudad del Este, the Dominican border markets, street markets in the US or the informal economies of El Tepito in Mexico City.

Speakers include:

RAUL CARDENAS
TEDDY CRUZ
JULIAN D’ANGIOLILLO
LAURENT GUTIERREZ
ALFONSO HERNANDEZ
HOU HANRU
RICK LOWE
PETER MÖRTENBÖCK
HELGE MOOSHAMMER
ALFONSO MORALES
GERALD MURRAY
VALERIE PORTEFAIX
FERNANDO RABOSSI
ANANYA ROY
IGNACIO VALERO
MATIAS VIEGENER
COG-NATE COLLECTIVE
and others

This research gathering at UCSD is part of an itinerant series of conferences world-wide and will be followed by meetings in Hong Kong/Shanghai (fall 2012) and Istanbul (spring 2013).

Outcomes of these events will be published in an atlas and a textbook by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam in 2013.