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© 2024, Lía Duarte Rodríguez

I am an architect and spatial researcher based in Berlin and Santo Domingo.

My practice investigates social dynamics behind spatial production, the movement of subjects across territories, the spaces they find themselves interacting with and the narratives behind.

My current line of research revolves around the interplay betweenhost-guest interdependencies by looking into female migration flows, social reproduction, and the spatialization of practices of care in the Caribbean.

2024 - Doctoral Candidate, Hochschule Anhalt
2020 - 2023 M.Sc. Architecture Typologies, TU Berlin
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(un)caring landscapes:
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
research

Domestic scale: 
axonometry of a room for a domestic worker. 
Domestic scale: 
the room for the domestic worker allocated in the employer’s apartment.

Territorial scale: 
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.