Core Studies tutor Anna Pla-Català will be in conversation with Iñaki Echeverria at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires on Monday 5 October at 7pm. The talk will focus on Ecological transfers in the context of Texcoco Lake Ecological Park, Mexico City.

Ecological Transfers displays knowledge, protocols and cultural, technological and programmatic regulations of architecture through the holistic and systemic understanding of the multiplicity of actors that make up a territory. The conferences seek to broaden the knowledge and conceptualize the ideas settled in large-scale management practices, establishing relationships between the different strata and territorial management systems with the project. Through different techniques of direction, management and ordering of material resources and of the actors involved, new forms of ecological relevance are projected through their thinking and project transposition in the present.

Texcoco Lake Ecological Park is an act of historical justice for the benefit of the Valley of Mexico and, in particular, its most vulnerable population. The main objective of this project is to use a non-renewable urban resource to create a space of great beauty, not ostentatious, that will allow to imagine and build a better future to inhabit the valley. It is an immense space, twice the island of Manhattan, which limits the urban area of the Metropolitan Area to the east, with the potential to become one of the largest urban parks in the world. The challenge, in addition to the scale of the project, consists in recognizing the preexistence and adverse conditions of the area with respect to regulations, geography, water, soil, social environment, accessibility, and previous works, among others. . These restrictions delimit the space to carry out the project, and determine the steps to implement this vision, while confirming its viability and setting an agenda for action.

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