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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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a look into the trajectories of (paid) domestic workers
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
In 2022, in the Dominican Republic, paid domestic work employed 12.35% of the economically active female population, being the third biggest brand of employment for women in the country.
(un)caring landscapes, looks into the hostile environments produced and reproduced in the country under the asymmetrical power relationships between (care)givers and (care)receivers, with a special focus on live-in paid household work in Santo Domingo.
2023
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axonometry of a room for a domestic worker.
the room for the domestic worker allocated in the employer’s apartment.
Narrations from one’s home to the other’s home. Mapping the journey of a domestic worker to her employer’s home in Santo Domingo.