Six Strategies Towards a Participatory Architecture

In this online masterclass, Giancarlo Mazzanti will present the strategies pivotal in designing and executing a participatory architecture. This innovative process favors agreements between human and non-human actors that allow the construction of open, inclusive, and diversified architecture, within a global system composed of organic, inorganic, political, social, and environmental entities. In this session, the renowned architect will prove that good architecture manages to build new identities for cities, towns, and inhabitants, transcending reputations of crime and poverty.

About the Speaker:

Born in Barranquilla, a port city in northern Colombia, Giancarlo Mazzanti is an architect who graduated from Javeriana University in Colombia, with postgraduate studies in industrial design and architecture in Florence, Italy. He has academic experience as a visiting professor in Colombian universities and world-renowned universities such as Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton. He is the first Colombian architect to have his works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) and the Center Pompidou in Paris.

Social values are at the center of Mazzanti's architecture which seeks to develop projects that give value to social transformations and build communities. He has dedicated his professional life to improving the quality of life through the design of the environment and the implementation of social equality.  His work has become a reflection of the current social changes occurring in Latin America and Colombia.