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© 2026, Lía Duarte Rodríguez
I am an architect and spatial researcher based in Berlin and Santo Domingo. My research investigates the social dynamics behind spatial production, the movement of subjects across territories, the spaces they find themselves interacting with, and the narratives that surround them.
My doctoral research examines plural methodologies and epistemologies for investigating how space is assembled in a transcalar manner by focusing on the spatialization of practices of care and social reproduction in plantation territories in the Caribbean.
I am part of the collective spatial:cru. There, we use critical pedagogies of co~creation, re:cognition, and (un)learning to question dominant structures of knowledge and oppressive spatial relations while articulating practices of collaboration.
2024 - Doctoral Candidate, Hochschule Anhalt
2020 - 2023 M.Sc. Architecture Typologies, TU Berlin
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hidden labors, (un)caring territories:
architectures and landscapes of invisibilized migrant care work in the Dominican Republic
Draws on theories of care and social reproduction, everyday minor architectures, and decolonial studies to investigate the often-hidden spatial aspect of migrant care and reproductive work by taking as point of departure plantation territories in the Dominican Republic. Moving away from the narratives of production that characterise these, the research asks which spatialities, trajectories, infrastructures, and practices are the ones (re)produced for sustaining life in and beyond the plantation, that is, life’s work. By emphasising how space is assembled in a transcalar manner and expanding the understanding of architectural production and spatial agency, the research fosters a reading of the relational dimension that characterises (un)caring relationships within production regimes.
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doctoral research
doctoral research