Maria Prieto

University of Central Lancashire, Grenfell-Baines School of Architecture, Construction & Environment, Faculty Member

The University of Manchester, Manchester Architecture Research Group (MARG), Doctoral

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• Co-Founder, STS Spain - Asociación de Estudios Sociales de Ciencia y Tecnología (2011-2022, 2022-present).
• RIBA Chartered Member, Royal Institute of British Architects.
• ARB Registered Architect, no. 093325B, Architects Registration Board.
• ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Educator (RSME), The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.
Supervisors: Albena Yaneva and Isabelle Doucet

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The pervasive city

Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Entertainment and media in the ubiquitous era, 2008

New-media artistic engagements with city-making are challenging our understanding of time and spa... more New-media artistic engagements with city-making are challenging our understanding of time and space. With the advent of GPSinspired art and Web 2.0, the relationship of citizens with their physical spaces and urban experiences is put at stake. GPS mobile devices allow transposing audiovisual recordings from different spaces while the social Net provides a participative medium to reconfigure local spaces and emotions. On the one hand, locative art delivers augmented environments to the user navigating through a specific site. On the other hand, net art expands our understanding of the role played by collective perceptions and memories within and beyond the city. The overlay of both media produces an evolutionary audiovisual archive by the interaction of visitors with both the site and the website, the local and the global, which let it be updated and interesting for public collaboration in innovating or enhancing the spatial practices of the contemporary city. This paper explores some emerging urban applications of mobile, embedded and distributed media architectures, as well as the role of networked communities in the construction of the environment.

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From Public Housing to Housing a New Public: The Case of Elemental

eVolo _ Architecture Magazine, 2010

Literally all architecture is about this question of the common world. / Then the question is, 'w... more Literally all architecture is about this question of the common world. / Then the question is, 'which type, which style of architecture is adjusted to the task?' […] / What is the successor to this style of modernist architecture? I am interested in pushing the designer into asking, "if you have to imagine that the world does not consist of matters of fact, but instead of matters of concern, what happens with the concepts of function, sobriety, public space, etc.?" / [T]he crisis of representation is largely due to the fact that people define politics in too narrow of a sense; that is, it is always defined in terms of race, gender, power and class relations-a very limited repertoire. […] / [I] think the crisis of representation today occurs because it is very difficult to speak about the production of things with this limited repertoire. This repertoire blocks you at the entry of science and technology, and architecture is part of science and technology. / A new beginning would be-in contrast to the world of objects we're imagining nowabout how the architect displays a thing […]."-Bruno Latour 1

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2004 - Interview with Bruno Latour: Debriefing the Collective Experiment

Agglutinations (online journal of Architecture, Urbanism and Media), 2004

Designer Bruce Mau's career has been wide-ranging. In 1995, he collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and... more Designer Bruce Mau's career has been wide-ranging. In 1995, he collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture on S,M,L,XL. In 2000, he published Life Style, an investigation into contemporary image culture. This year, he returns with Massive Change. What's new about this project? The scale, for one. Massive Change is not just a book. It is also a major exhibition, a radio show, a website, a lecture series, and a poster project. As our twenty-minute interview reveals, it was the product of an extensive collaboration between Bruce Mau Design and the Institute without Boundaries, a post-graduate research laboratory that Mau launched in partnership with George Brown-Toronto City College.

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Drafts by Maria Prieto

2011 - Visibilizando la invención

1er Encuentro de la red de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Red eSCTS). Madrid, 2... more

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2010 - “Immaterial Architectures for a New Material World,” paper proposal accepted for Politics of Design International Workshop, Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester, 24-25 June, 2010, Politics of Design Abstracts Booklet-Draft, June, 2010, pp. 9-10.

Politics of Design Abstracts Booklet-Draft (Manchester Architecture Research Centre), 2010

Burak Asiliskender, Erciyes University 'Re-creating the self and nation in a factory' Industriali... more Burak Asiliskender, Erciyes University 'Re-creating the self and nation in a factory' Industrialization, as an achievement of modernization, reconstructed the identities with reacting on economy, social dynamics and space. In the beginning years of Turkey, industrialization was closely linked the ideology of the authorities that reconstructed the national form and identity under the aim of modernization. It was aimed to renovate whole life styles and stereo types by revolutions. Moreover, Turkish State established industrial sites, as a part of the modernization. They also built residences, cultural spaces and sportive fields with factories, in a 'modern' architectural order and outlook. It could be easily said that transformation process and its approach was leaded, instead of remaining the change on its own. Thus, the identity of space, urban form and social order were modified by the industrial settlements in Anatolian cities, founded under the ideology based on creating transformation and providing the development, with their economic effects, and their very new spatial context. From this point of view, it could be evaluated that industrialization was used for creating transformation with its effects on space and demographic order in a figurative contrast to traditional environments and order. In a retrospective view, this study was intended to evaluate the contradiction on the transformation process of space and social order, due to the state-based industrialization in Turkey. The policy and ideology that affected the industrialization process in Turkey was criticized, first. International calls of and technical supports were assessed. According to these conceptual outlook, this study was determined a detailed discussion from a case of the Kayseri city, which state-based factories were firstly founded, between 1930 and 1970. Spatial and social transformations were evaluated from the development of the urban form and housing. Social and cultural activates and habits of daily life were also examined to articulate the chance on the identities and the society. In the case, urban development of the Kayseri was observed to identify the transformation. Besides these, the avant-garde forms and spaces of these industrial establishments and their housing settlements are examined. According to this survey, their urban and spatial orders are compared with traditional environment to clarify the effects on space and its construction. Although, their housing forms are not only observed as a spatial or cultural artifact, but their urban pattern characteristics and spatial qualities are also examined. Moreover, cultural and social activities are discussed as well as housing types and their usage, for evaluating the change on identity of the people and their relationships. According to these, the role of the authority, power, citizenship, multiplicity, breaking the homogeneity, othering and reproduction of the identity phenomenon were criticized from laborers and their foreigner positions in the society. Transformation on social order and space were also evaluated.

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The pervasive city

Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Entertainment and media in the ubiquitous era, 2008

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From Public Housing to Housing a New Public: The Case of Elemental

eVolo _ Architecture Magazine, 2010

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2004 - Interview with Bruno Latour: Debriefing the Collective Experiment

Agglutinations (online journal of Architecture, Urbanism and Media), 2004

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2011 - Visibilizando la invención

1er Encuentro de la red de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología (Red eSCTS). Madrid, 2... more