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Lina Celis

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Lina Celis has been exploring the concept of "conscious inhabitation" within a framework that draws from ancestral and traditional knowledge while incorporating contemporary technologies to enable sustainable living. Over the last three years, she has delved into and materialized, through a multidisciplinary approach, the interdependent relationship that exists between humans and the more-than-human world, emphasizing the notion of "home" as a feeling rather than a physical space. With a Master's degree in Textiles from Parsons School of Design (2023), she focus her research on an ethical and decolonized sense of home intertwined with a mixed identity framework. Lina has garnered recognition in the field of textile and spatial practice, including international competitions such as the Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize 2022, the CFDA Scholarship Fund 2022, and the Aquafil X Parsons School of Design collaboration 2023, and now is working in The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home with AIANY.



León Duval
León Duval holds a Master’s in American Aesthetics in Chile in 2020, completing his thesis with the highest distinction about the practice of the Bicianimitas; palimpsests, hybrids, and cultural forms specific to Chile and Latin America, but derived from pre-Hispanic, colonial, and Anglo-Saxon traces from different periods. He also holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 2022, where he won the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize to work on the research project "Migratory Spaces in Northern Chile", related to the territorial transformations produced due to the migrations since 2019 in the northern border of Chile with Bolivia. About that project, he is developing a critical cartography of the influences and repercussions of informal migrations in northern Chile, while also identifying potential areas for addressing this issue. Furthermore, he conducted research on collective housing and the importance of public policies in contemporary and future forms of cohabitation for the SAT Living Continuity project: Housing beyond buildings, as part of the Sharjah Triennial.
Rubén Gómez
Ruben Goméz has focused his practice on thoroughly examining individual histories that contribute to the consolidation of specific contexts. For instance, as part of the William Kinne Fellows Traveling Prize awarded by Columbia GSAPP, after accomplishing his Master's studies in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University in 2022, he collaborated with the indigenous Embera Chami community located in Colombia. Together, they developed tools for constructing and repairing collective memory in the post-peace agreement era. The central axis of his research was based on prioritizing the testimonies of individuals and exploring how they could weave the territory with a non-colonial understanding.
Elisa Lutteral
Elisa Lutteral is an artist whose work explores the boundaries of social and political structures and challenges the narratives of patriarchy and capitalism. She studied Fashion Design at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2015, where she focused her thesis on the cosmology and mythology of the indigenous peoples of southern Argentina, specifically the Mapuche, Selknam, and Ona. Currently, Elisa holds a Master's degree in Textiles from Parsons School of Design in New York (2023). Today, she is conducting experimental research with biological materials such as corn and mycelium, aiming to create new ways of connecting humans with the material and natural world. Her work stems from the idea of envisioning an archaeology of the future within the parameters of our current consumption practices, and from there, rethinking and creating new biodegradable materials. Elisa is a member of the community laboratory Genspace, where she, along with the biomaterials group, is researching how to recycle and utilize the excessive waste problem in New York, transforming it into construction material using mycelium. With her textile practice, she received the Alice Brown Memorial Scholarship in 2022 and was a finalist for the Dorothy Waxman Textile Design Prize in 2022, and now she is part of The Mycelium House: Material Exploration for a Zero-Carbon Tiny Home with AIANY.