Tag: Puerto Rico
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POST DISASTER–FUTURES
Very excited that the book Post–Disaster Futures: Ruin, Repair, and Decolonial Imagination in Puerto Rico will be published by Haymarket Books on November 17, 2026. The book includes my text “Undoing Cemented Dreams” part of a project that explores cement not solely as a construction material, but as a cultural agent implicated in the shaping of Puerto Rico’s modernist aspirations and national imaginaries. Cement became central to governmental development strategies and symbolic of progress, embedding itself in both physical and ideological infrastructures. In the wake of this now-historic enterprise, the work asks: to what extent were Puerto Rico’s visions of…
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CEMENTED DREAMS ON RADIO
I was interviewed about my ongoing project CEMENTED DREAMS for the radio program Arquitectura HOY (Architecture Today) hosted by architect Elliot Santos at WIPR, the radio station of the University of Puerto Rico. In the hour-long conversation I introduce the various themes surrounding the development of the cement industry in Puerto Rico and its unfolding as a cultural agent until today. You can listen to the recorded conversation, in Spanish only, here.
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ADDRESSES 1978-PRESENT
Selected contribution to PATIO Magazine issue on Identities, 2025. Addresses 1978-present visualizes the lived addresses location of a 46 year old person who has moved more than thirty times across the Americas and the Caribbean. In doing so, this work seeks to find defining principles in the locations of a given geographical identity. Are identities tied to location? Are identities geographical? By collecting the addresses in text form, akin to a physical curriculum vitae (CV), and visualizing them using Google Maps tools, this work intends to neutralize the charged nature of moving, displacement, and the constant cycle of new beginnings…
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BRIDGING THE DIVIDES, POST-DISASTER FUTURES FELLOWSHIP
Elated to have been selected as a fellow for Bridging the Divides: Post-Disaster Futures study group. Bridging the Divides is “a program funded by a 1.2-million-dollar Mellon grant that was awarded to CENTRO, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College-CUNY, to support the establishment of collaborative, interdisciplinary study groups composed of artists, scholars, and journalists from across Puerto Rico and its diasporas.” In its second iteration, “the second group, which focuses on the theme of Post-Disaster Futures, is now hosted at Princeton University and led by current Princeton Professor Dr. Yarimar Bonilla and Dr. Deepak Lamba-Nieves, who is…
Marcelo López–Dinardi 