https://sanz-serif.com Víctor Muñoz Sanz Fri, 05 May 2023 10:45:48 +0000 https://sanz-serif.com en https://sanz-serif.com/Home Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:24:54 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Home <img width="745" height="1216" width_o="745" height_o="1216" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9cd491ba9e1be4f1408e88d0e760897e8a826427c15d34bbdf390652026b856/sanzserif.png" data-mid="92862151" border="0" data-scale="20" data-rotation="-180" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/745/i/f9cd491ba9e1be4f1408e88d0e760897e8a826427c15d34bbdf390652026b856/sanzserif.png" /> Víctor Muñoz Sanz the design of work About Research Projects Publications Contact https://sanz-serif.com/About Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/About <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cd88a6177496cbfc30f610641a76967b9272598e13af1b3aaa5895f338378c8/tu_delft_socialecologicalevent_lowres-6-dscf9202.JPG" data-mid="177758079" border="0" alt="Photo: Joep van Aert" data-caption="Photo: Joep van Aert" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cd88a6177496cbfc30f610641a76967b9272598e13af1b3aaa5895f338378c8/tu_delft_socialecologicalevent_lowres-6-dscf9202.JPG" /> I am a Spanish-Mexican researcher and educator with a background in design practice. My work examines the design and socio-spatial implications of the past, present and future of work.I am currently an assistant professor of urban design, with tenure, at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. Prior to that, I was Harvard’s Druker Fellow; emerging curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture; coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre; co-principal researcher of ‘Automated Landscapes’ at Het Nieuwe Instituut; fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude; and postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology. I am the co-editor of Automated Landscapes (Nieuwe Instituut, 2023), Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (2o22), Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (NAI010, 2020), and Extreme Urbanism 1 and 2 (Harvard GSD 2011, 2012). I publish essays regularly for periodicals and books, among others in Harvard Design Magazine, Work Body Leisure (Hatje Cantz, 2018), e-flux Architecture, Volume, and Domus. My research on automation with Het Nieuwe Instituut was exhibited at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. I hold the degree of Architect from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, with distinction, from the&nbsp;Harvard University (2011), and a Ph.D. cum laude in Architecture from UPM (2016). https://sanz-serif.com/Research Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:15:56 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Research Reseach How will we work is a question that embodies feelings of wonder and fascination, but also fear and anxiety, towards one of the most significant societal shifts currently taking place. What it means to work and to be a worker is being questioned by innovations in automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI), platforms and deregulation, or the disappearance of industries which are not aligned with the goals of the ecological transition. &nbsp; There are important implications for the spatial design disciplines (architecture, urban design, landscape architecture) of asking this question. These remain little explored and are far reaching: What types of buildings do new forms of human and non-human work need, and what type of infrastructure and land use patterns are stimulated by the transformation of work are two fundamental questions for architecture and urbanism. More importantly, if work as we know it will forever change, how can designers facilitate the emergence of new economies and spaces for meaningful work? In the context of pressing challenges as inequality, climate crisis and scarcity, thinking architecture and urbanism through the lens of work gains significance. Envisioning how we would like to work becomes a powerful, transversal theme to support society’s drive towards more just, inclusive, circular, climate adaptive and healthy cities. Grounding new circular urban economies, a revamped food production system, or revolutionary economies of green care demand solutions which are yet to be designed. To adequately reach the faculty’s ambition of questioning how spatial design disciplines can contribute to solving the grand challenges of our time, we need to start a conversation about the design of work. My work aims to move that conversation forward. I do so by means of three interconnected trajectories : [1] on past futures of industrial, corporate and resource extraction urbanism, with a focus on their interplay with technology and management; [2] on the future of work today, tracing innovations in (smart) technologies and how these lead to transformations in contemporary landscapes, particularly around agriculture and farming; and [3] on reimagining work, exploring the role of urban design in enabling new urban economies, innovation ecosystems, and inclusive forms of work. https://sanz-serif.com/Cowborgs-in-the-polder-1 Fri, 05 May 2023 10:27:39 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Cowborgs-in-the-polder-1 cowborgs in the polder How the design of farm buildings, animal bodies and technologies transformed Dutch dairy landscapes NWO funded research (SSH Open Competition Pilot) PI: Víctor Muñoz Sanz &nbsp; Automated technologies have driven the transformation and growth of the Dutch dairy industry. Today, this sector is questioned for its adverse effect on nature. To better address environmental problems caused by farming, it is important to understand how the use of automation in this sector is affecting those places where food is produced. This transdisciplinary research study will examine the interactions between animals, humans, robots, data technologies, and farm architecture in the industrialized large-scale Dutch dairy landscapes, from 1992 to the nitrogen crisis. Ultimately, the project will broaden our conception of how technology and industrial capitalism shape the built environment. ︎︎︎Research&nbsp; Next︎︎︎ https://sanz-serif.com/Encounters-with-AI Thu, 24 Dec 2020 11:53:28 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Encounters-with-AI architectural encounters with ai Ongoing research at TU Delft in collaboration with Georg Vrachliotis, Group of History and Theory of Architecture and Digital Culture &nbsp; The aim of this research platform is to systematically investigate the architectural and urban spatialization of AI technologies.&nbsp;Following the analysis of selected automated environments and closed systems, we will study several case studies of automated work landscapes to address issues of architectural design, energy and land consumption, labor, infrastructures and industrial networks.&nbsp; Its contribution aspires to be threefold: 1) anticipate the implications for sustainable urbanization of the digital transition in productive environments; 2) develop transdisciplinary methods to investigate the cultural and ecological significance of the digitization of the environment; and 3) make a fundamental step towards the still unwritten architectural history of artificial intelligence. The project is embedded in a cooperation between the my research in the Department of Urbanism, with the Theory of Architecture and Digital Culture Group in the Department of Architecture. Research Lead: Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Georg Vrachliotis Ph.D. researcher: Gent Shehu&nbsp; https://sanz-serif.com/Making-Green-Work-1 Fri, 05 May 2023 10:45:48 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Making-Green-Work-1 making green work Research initiative Initiator: Víctor Muñoz Sanz Partners:&nbsp; IRAP Institut für Raumentwicklung, OST; Almere; Innovation and Technology for Development Centre, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design. <img width="1358" height="1472" width_o="1358" height_o="1472" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8f7f0077dae0c163a1f468a748d9f5f11646f6263b149d6c1810adfac58593c/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-12.40.23.png" data-mid="177761798" border="0" data-scale="75" alt="Agro-urban ecologies. Honors program research by F&aacute;bio Alberto Alzate Martinez" data-caption="Agro-urban ecologies. Honors program research by Fábio Alberto Alzate Martinez" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8f7f0077dae0c163a1f468a748d9f5f11646f6263b149d6c1810adfac58593c/Screenshot-2023-05-05-at-12.40.23.png" /> Amidst the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission wants to align the Biodiversity Strategy of the European Green Deal (EGD) with restoring local economies. This strategy calls on European cities over 20.000 people to develop ‘Urban Greening Plans’ by 2030. The EGD points at the widely accepted benefits of green urban spaces, ranging from health, recreation, refuge to nature, and mitigation of climate change. More importantly, it points at how the extensive deployment of green infrastructure in urban and periurban areas has the potential to have a positive economic impact in cities: new related jobs can help tackle inequalities and ensure a just transition to climate neutrality. Yet, effective tools and practical implementation models to unlock socioeconomic impact connected to urban greening are missing. Making Green Work addresses the need of urban stakeholders for new capacities to enable green-blue and climate adaptation infrastructure while fostering synergistic economies at the neighbourhood scale. For that, Making Green Work integrates: 1) spatial typologies and places for green work; 2) relevant policies, business and technologies; and 3) action-embedded pedagogies for behavioral change. This research line, developed in in association with other (inter)national partners and educational initiatives, deals with understanding the spatial planning and design conditions supporting the deployment of infrastructures for the green transition and related green jobs in cities. What will nature-inclusive area development mean for the economic profile of a city and its associated jobs? Questions being touched upon in this project include: How to increase the public acceptance of new infrastructures supporting the green transition? How to align such project with place identities, including types of landscape and labor skills? What are the precise spatial design implications and needs of such infrastructures? How can those needs be integrated into an urban setting? Image:&nbsp;Agro-urban ecologies. Honors program research by Fábio Alberto Alzate Martinez (TU Delft) Related publications:Herdt, T. &amp; Muñoz Sanz, V. (2023). "Experts as game changers: A critical discourse analysis of climate adaptation measures in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Region,” in Urban Planning vol 8, issue 2. ︎︎︎︎Muñoz Sanz, V., Herdt, T., Romero Muñoz, S., Bello Gómez, L., &amp; Sánchez Chaparro, T. (2022). "Between Top-down and Bottom-up: A comparative study on organizational and governance models in a new generation of Urban Forests.”&nbsp;Abstract published in International Conference Urban Forests, Forest Urbanisms &amp; Global Warming: Developing Greener, Cooler and more Resilient Cities: Book of Abstracts&nbsp;(pp. 19). KU Leuven.&nbsp;︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V., Romero Muñoz, S., Bello Gómez, L., Sánchez Chaparro, T., &amp; Herdt, T. (2022). “Making Green Work: Implementation Strategies in a New Generation of Urban Forests,” in Urban Planning vol 7 issue 2.︎︎︎︎ ︎︎︎Previous&nbsp; Next︎︎︎ https://sanz-serif.com/Posthabitat Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:00:16 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Posthabitat post-habitat Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2019-2020) &nbsp; <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f07e7379a0c3eedcb5b1ca51fb2757f204a218f29db657449d2f4dfdb3af5f91/fig-3.jpg" data-mid="93013389" border="0" alt="Workers adding sticks to support the growth of orchids in the greenhouse of Ter Laak Orchids, 2018. Photo: V&iacute;ctor Mu&ntilde;oz Sanz" data-caption="Workers adding sticks to support the growth of orchids in the greenhouse of Ter Laak Orchids, 2018. Photo: Víctor Muñoz Sanz" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f07e7379a0c3eedcb5b1ca51fb2757f204a218f29db657449d2f4dfdb3af5f91/fig-3.jpg" /> <img width="5184" height="3456" width_o="5184" height_o="3456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab7d4922e8aab5c2726758cc4e23398177268900b33fcc16e8a32b8a4b00882d/Munoz-Sanz_tomatoes_stuttgart.jpg" data-mid="93013328" border="0" alt="Worker wearing protective glasses against LED lighting in a winter greenhouse of Hagdorn Tomaten, 2019. Photo: V&iacute;ctor Mu&ntilde;oz Sanz" data-caption="Worker wearing protective glasses against LED lighting in a winter greenhouse of Hagdorn Tomaten, 2019. Photo: Víctor Muñoz Sanz" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab7d4922e8aab5c2726758cc4e23398177268900b33fcc16e8a32b8a4b00882d/Munoz-Sanz_tomatoes_stuttgart.jpg" /> As the ecological planetary crisis advances inexorably to what it seems to be a point of no return—an uninhabitable Earth—proponents of technological solutionism imagine systems to artificially sustain the utopia of continuous modernization, economic growth and endless human consumption. Automation, datascapes, labor surveillance, and microclimatic enclosures are put forward as infrastructures to safeguard capitalism of the uncertainties and risks it itself created, allowing for the reproduction of humans, ecologies and agriculture—by moving it indoors, to total, ‘sustainable’, environments. While that proposition might sound like science fiction, the reality is that such utopia is already embodied in everyday products available all year round, anywhere, that we eat, drink, or simply desire for their ‘natural’ beauty. This research, conducted during my fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, highlighted the posthuman turn taking place in the spaces of horticulture and farming, its potentials, risks, and conflicts. Through this work I explored different presentation formats to formulate questions and present findings, such as an installation, essays, videos, and collage. Related publications:Muñoz Sanz, V. (2020), “Genes, Robots, and Toxicity: the Haunted Landscapes of Milk Production”, in Solitude Journal 1, issue on ‘Collective Care and Response-ability”, pp. 58-67. ︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V. (2020), “Best Supporting Characters,” in: Riha, T. et al., eds., Steel Cities: Architecture of Logistics in East Central Europe. Prague, Zurich: VI PER, Park Books, pp. 290_304. ︎︎︎︎ https://sanz-serif.com/Habitat Thu, 24 Dec 2020 08:56:17 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Habitat habitat Research and publication (2018-2020) Coordinator Jaap Bakema Study Centre / c0-editor With: Dirk van den Heuvel and Janno Martens <img width="1033" height="1489" width_o="1033" height_o="1489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ddbca6d431fffe4e29a6590c3a6dfb014cb2506fcf5e261eb50168f53b2ef9a/Habitat-Cover.jpg" data-mid="93009863" border="0" data-scale="44" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ddbca6d431fffe4e29a6590c3a6dfb014cb2506fcf5e261eb50168f53b2ef9a/Habitat-Cover.jpg" /> Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture, a new look at ecological thinking and a contribution to its historiography,&nbsp; is the result of research undertaken in the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning and in various international archives. The book features a fundamental rereading of classic sources like CIAM and Team 10, supplemented by lesser-known contributions from recent history and from leading designers today. Including work by Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, James Stirling, Arne Korsmo and Geir Grung, Pjotr Gonggrijp, RAAAF, Frits Palmboom and many others, the book, published by nai010, stems from research on Total Space and the exhibition Habitat Expanding Architecture, which took place at Het Nieuwe Instituut in 2018 and can now be visited online.When the ecological term habitat was introduced in the 1950s in the avant-garde circles of CIAM (Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne) and Team 10, it became a subject of fierce debate. In addition to rethinking the housing issue, habitat brought a profoundly new way of looking at architecture and urbanism. Cities and buildings could no longer be seen as isolated objects, but instead were considered part of a larger whole, an environment or habitat. In the light of climate change, ecological issues are receiving more attention today and are an important reason to reconsider the discipline of architecture. The book Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture highlights some of the historical sources of the ecological views underlying the current reforms in architecture. There is a focus on the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something that is inherently contextual and relational. This book describes the continuity, interruptions and transformations at stake and not only intensifies the current debate, but also offers suggestions for future research. Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture is largely based on fundamental research undertaken in the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning, which is managed by Het Nieuwe Instituut. Based on selections from the collection and additional material from international archives, this book presents extensive documentation of design proposals and research projects. It provides an overview of key positions since the 1950s, when the Habitat concept was first explored in an attempt to rethink the architecture and its purpose in general. The book contains contributions by Frits Palmboom, Erik Rietveld, Hadas Steiner, Georg Vrachliotis, and Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, combined with generous visual documentations of the work of renowned architects Aldo van Eyck, Alison and Peter Smithson, Van den Broek &amp; Bakema, and many more. Related publications:Van den Heuvel, D., Martens, J., Muñoz Sanz, V., eds. (June 2020), Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture, <img width="1033" height="1489" width_o="1033" height_o="1489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d1f17b2d36076429fb47ee92a01efb107a8201f24134383ba4f4b10c00a8d31/Habitat-Cover.jpg" data-mid="93010190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d1f17b2d36076429fb47ee92a01efb107a8201f24134383ba4f4b10c00a8d31/Habitat-Cover.jpg" />Rotterdam: NAI 010 Publishers. ︎︎︎︎ Van den Heuvel, D., Muñoz Sanz, V., eds., Total Space. <img width="200" height="253" width_o="200" height_o="253" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fb5a85a5c177d9daa4c438d34db6b041588bba5dc34841e5accc2e11cd0332af/total-space.jpeg" data-mid="93010201" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/200/i/fb5a85a5c177d9daa4c438d34db6b041588bba5dc34841e5accc2e11cd0332af/total-space.jpeg" /> Insert in Volume #50, December 2016. ︎︎︎︎ Wallpaper image in this page: Pjotr Gonggrijp. Morphological studies of the Dutch delta landscape, 1969. Collection Het Nieuwe Instituut, GONG 3 https://sanz-serif.com/Cities-of-Making Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:51:19 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Cities-of-Making cities of making JPI Urban Europe-funded project (2017-2020) Postdoctoral researcher, TU Delft Project partners: BECI, Latitude, TU Delft, RSA, ULB, VUB <img width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9adec7a47e1ba894cd52757a3caea7ec52542ceada548c6d9e658f0563e6313f/COM-patterns_.gif" data-mid="93011114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/9adec7a47e1ba894cd52757a3caea7ec52542ceada548c6d9e658f0563e6313f/COM-patterns_.gif" /> Cities of Making: Resources for Activating New Urban Industry Through Technology, Spatial Design and Transition Governance (ERA-NET Co-fund Smart Urban Futures programme funded project) explored the future of urban based manufacturing in European cities in terms of technology, resources, place and application. &nbsp;Following years of decline and offshoring, European cities are being confronted by a range of issues simultaneously: firstly, manufacturing jobs have shifted quickly to services and have created large gaps in the employment market, concepts such as circular economy are being taken seriously by cities and finally new technology is emerging allowing industry to be quieter and more discrete. &nbsp;This may offer a raft of potential benefits, including jobs for sociodemographic groups most affected by unemployment, innovation, more efficient use of materials and urban resilience. Urban centres play an important role in nurturing new forms of green urban manufacturing, based on a clean, knowledge- and labour-intensive manufacturing sector. Cities of Making has used a combination of strategic and action research resulting in the development of a co-creation instrument, a pattern language, for the use of public officials, designers, and entrepreneurs. Our ambition was to identify what works in supporting a resilient and innovative industrial base and to test those solutions in a real-world setting. The biggest questions we’ve touched include: What technology/resources are suitable for 21st century urban industry?Where can it be located in the city in terms of planning and spatial constraints?How can we leverage the change? We’ve learnt from experiences in London, Rotterdam and Brussels – each with a distinct industrial heritage. Through this project we have developed typologies, practices and policies focusing on public and private stakeholders to breathe new life into their manufacturing communities. The project brought together a dynamic, multidisciplinary team from Brussels (BECI, Latitude, ULB and the VUB), London (UCL and the RSA) and Rotterdam (TU Delft) – each contributing to a breadth of competencies in resource and technology, industrial ecology, circular economy, urban planning, governance, strategy, social dynamics and more. TU Delft research unit: Prof. Han Meyer, Birgit Hausleitner, and Victor Muñoz Sanz. Related publications:Croxford, B.,&nbsp; Domenech, T., Hausleitner, B.,&nbsp; Hill, A.V., Meyer, H. Orban, A., Muñoz Sanz, V. &amp; Vanin, F. (2020), “Three Pathways to Support Urban Manufacturing” in: Hill, Adrian V ed. Foundries of the Future: a Guide to 21st Century Cities of Making.&nbsp; Delft: TU Delft Open, pp. 67-100. ︎︎︎︎Croxford, B.,&nbsp; Domenech, T., Hausleitner, B.,&nbsp; Hill, A.V., Meyer, H. Orban, A., Muñoz Sanz, V. &amp; Vanin, F. (2020), “A Pattern Language” in: Hill, Adrian V ed. Foundries of the Future: a Guide to 21st Century Cities of Making.&nbsp; Delft: TU Delft Open, pp. 103-207.︎︎︎︎Croxford, B.,&nbsp; Domenech, T., Hausleitner, B.,&nbsp; Hill, A.V., Meyer, H. Orban, A., Muñoz Sanz, V. &amp; Vanin, F. (2020), “A Manifesto for 21st Century Manufacturing” in: Hill, A. V. ed. Foundries of the Future: a Guide to 21st Century Cities of Making.&nbsp; Delft: TU Delft Open, pp. 233-241.︎︎︎︎Muñoz Sanz, V., Hausleitner, B., Klapwijk, A., Meyer, H. (2018), “Rotterdam The Hague, NL,” in: Cities Report (technical report released by “Cities of Making,” project funded by Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe - ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures), May 2018. pp. 133-183. ︎︎︎︎ https://sanz-serif.com/Automated-Landscapes Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:57:13 +0000 Víctor Muñoz Sanz https://sanz-serif.com/Automated-Landscapes automated landscapes Nieuwe Instituut, in collaboration with TU Delft and other partners. Co-principal researcher (2016-2018) Core research team: Merve Bedir, Ludo Groen, Marten Kuijpers, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Marina Otero Verzier. <img width="883" height="591" width_o="883" height_o="591" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b958a57b0553ca830a61851c184bd9d2548a3208260c64d95488c867e40db7c2/Office_Victor-Munoz-Sanz.png" data-mid="92943404" border="0" alt="OFFICE, at Dutch Pavilion WORK, BODY, LEISURE. 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE. Photo: V&iacute;ctor Mu&ntilde;oz Sanz" data-caption="OFFICE, at Dutch Pavilion WORK, BODY, LEISURE. 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE. Photo: Víctor Muñoz Sanz" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/883/i/b958a57b0553ca830a61851c184bd9d2548a3208260c64d95488c867e40db7c2/Office_Victor-Munoz-Sanz.png" /> <img width="1772" height="1177" width_o="1772" height_o="1177" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44003c8ea63582fe2a483d8c86fad9c89090811b913321d8c19bf57fe03ead9a/daria_scagliola-9523-1.jpg" data-mid="92943403" border="0" alt="OFFICE, at Dutch Pavilion WORK, BODY, LEISURE. 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE. Photo: Daria Scagliola" data-caption="OFFICE, at Dutch Pavilion WORK, BODY, LEISURE. 16th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE. Photo: Daria Scagliola" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44003c8ea63582fe2a483d8c86fad9c89090811b913321d8c19bf57fe03ead9a/daria_scagliola-9523-1.jpg" /> <img width="2995" height="2160" width_o="2995" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c6097d275d03318f554ffaa55c15edd14ba9fc80fbefb3838267115776ba508/al_book.jpg" data-mid="177762266" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c6097d275d03318f554ffaa55c15edd14ba9fc80fbefb3838267115776ba508/al_book.jpg" /> Automated Landscapes emerged out of the alignment between the ongoing commitment of Het Nieuwe Instituut to address the implications of automation and artificial intelligence for architecture, design and digital culture, and 'Lights Out!: Emerging Spaces and Territories of Non-Human Labour', my proposal for research on the production of space for and by fully automated industry, which in 2016 received an honourable mention in Het Nieuwe Instituut’s 2016 International Call for Fellows. Under the premise that automation disrupts not only labour markets, but the configuration,design and occupation of entire territories, ‘Automated Landscapes’ seeked to document and reflect upon the emerging architectures and urbanisms of fully-automated labour, looking at other actors involved in the production of spaces that remain beyond classic notions of authorship and signature. The aims of the project were manifold, namely: to shed light on the impact of automation in various geographies and scales; to examine how the design of automated spaces challenges conventional spatial requirements and normative rules in architecture for health, safety and welfare, such as standards for light, ventilation, height, and floor areas; to reveal how these technologies bring new forms of territorial occupation, segregation and contestation; and to speculate upon the role of architects and designers in imagining and intervening in territories and spaces for non-humans. I have been invited to write essays and present internationally on this project. I have presented outcomes of this project, (in collaboration with Marten Kuijpers) as research installations: #OFFICE, at the Dutch contribution to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, and Port at the 2017 Vienna Biennale.&nbsp; Out of a collaboration with the European Post-Master of Urbanism (EMU) of TU Delft, I co-curated a Countryside Tour with students and a diverse group of experts and cultural producers.&nbsp; Related publications: Bedir, M., Groen, L., Kuijpers, M., Muñoz Sanz, V. &amp; Otero Verzier, M., eds. (2023), Automated Landscapes, Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut.&nbsp; ︎︎︎︎Muñoz Sanz, V. (2022), “Five Freedoms, technology and autonomy in animal farming: a report from the Netherlands”, in Monumental Wastelands Magazine 1, issue on ‘Autonomy’.&nbsp;︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V. (2020), “Best Supporting Characters,” in: T. Riha et al., eds., Steel Cities: Architecture of Logistics in East Central Europe. Prague, Zurich: VI PER, Park Books, 290-304.&nbsp;︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V., Kuijpers, M., Abou Jaoude, G. (2018),“Agricultural Platforms,” in Harvard Design Magazine #46, Winter 2018, pp. 124-31. ︎︎︎︎Muñoz Sanz, V. (2018), “Polanyi in the Garden,” in Más Allá de lo Humano. Lugo: Bartlebooth, pp. 169-79. ︎︎︎︎Muñoz Sanz, V. (2018), “Researching Automated Landscapes”, in: Otero Verzier, M., Axel, N. (eds), WORK BODY LEISURE, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, pp. 103-126. ︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V. (2017), “Captives in FutureLand”, in Volume #51, November 2017, pp. 38-41. ︎︎︎︎ Muñoz Sanz, V. (2016), “Welcome to FutureLand: Automation Takes Command in the Port of Rotterdam”, in Volume #49, September 2016, pp. 33-38. ︎︎︎︎