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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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Domesticity in the Dominican Republic demands the presence of a (paid) household worker in the houses of the middle and upper classes in the country. Architectures of the home end up confining and attaching these women to areas traditionally recognized under the label of service spaces.
Taking my position as point of departure, home, safe space? aims to contest notions of domesticity in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic and give a glimpse of such through the lenses of a critical spatial analysis.
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