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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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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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