Wiindex es un fanzine puertorriqueño de arquitectura interesado en narrativas/prácticas subversivas. El proyecto fue desarrollado en el programa La Práctica 2012-2013 del Beta-Local. Con su primera edición se intenta establecer un “nuevo espacio” diverso y multidisciplinario, para generar discusiones críticas entorno al ambiente construido y discursivo de la arquitectura en Puerto Rico empezando desde la academia.

Pretende ser un foro para compartir cualquier tipo de contenido crítico arquitectónico en una atmósfera libre de oficialísmos y que al final tiene como objetivo “fomentar el mejoramiento del ejercicio profesional de sus miembros”, tal como lo exige el Código de Ética oficial.

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Link: Design in Puerto Rico

Design in Puerto Rico is a collective of emerging designers looking to showcase their work in specialized design contexts to establish relationships with manufacturers, distributors and potential customers, while representing Puerto Rico’s creative industry and talent.

Marcia Budet

Marcia Budet offers creative, non-traditional design proposals in fine jewelry to women who look for effortless elegance. Main interests of the Studio include exploring asymmetrical elements, movement and how simple + complex elements create sophisticated boldness. By embracing the designer’s architectural training as our core, it feels natural to curate our pieces through this discipline’s filtered lens, providing the brand with a signature aesthetic language.

Link: CIUDADLAB

CIUDADLAB is a research, design and action driven collective about the city. It was founded in 2004 in San Juan, Puerto Rico by Marcelo López Dinardi and Oscar Oliver Didier as an initiative to investigate the complexities inherent to the contemporary cityscape. CIUDADLAB addresses the modes and the representations that daily impact and inform our customs, identities and desires that are so greatly impregnated into our built environments. Today, more than ever, it is essential that architecture gets nurtured from other disciplines in order to study the complexities of the contemporary city’s territories, its complex nature is not of its exclusive dominion, much less the problematics that imply to ponder it.

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http://bahiaurbana.com/

$1.5 billion Bahía Urbana project unveiled via Caribbean Business

“The administration of Gov. Luis Fortuño announced Tuesday that the initial phase of a long-term project to revamp the San Juan Bay waterfront stretching between Old San Juan and the Miramar Convention District would be completed next year.”

INTA34: World Urban Development Congress

Governments of middle-sized cities and regions around the world are facing the common challenge to increase competitiveness, forge excellence and benefit from the changing relationship between traditional centres and periphery. Older divisions between centre and periphery, home and work, manufacturing and service are becoming blurred in many ways. These broad cultural and economic trends lead policy makers and industrialists to define new development instruments, new concepts for workspace, new synergies between living and working, and fresh approaches to the attraction of talent, investment and knowledge through sustainable infrastructure of urban regions.

Adjunto les incluimos un enlace al mas reciente reporte technico del DTOP (por favor incluyan la fecha en el proximo) sobre el sistema de transportacion colectiva del Area Metropolitana. Incluye informacion sobre el uso del sistema y mapas diagramando los cambios a las rutas de la AMA.

Reporte Technico del DTOP: Incemento en Patrocinio y Aumento de Eficiencia Mediante del Sistema de Transportacion Colectiva del Area Metropolitana – Intergracion de Rutas y Tarifas

Jesurún por Miguel Rodrguez Casellas publicado en el Nuevo Dia , 10 de Junio del 2010

“Roberto Arango y Carrie Bradshaw intercambiaron camellos esta semana. Aunque el sonriente senador alegó recrear a Indiana Jones, su pose fotográfica más bien parece un clandestino homenaje a Sex and the City 2. El chiste se desinfla cuando trasciende que la caravana legislativa tenía como propósito participar de un seminario de paz… en Israel.”

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Beyond Protests: Students Making the Pieces of a Different Society – Saskia Sassen “blogea” sobre la huelga de la UPR en el Huffington Post.

Billboard por Miguel Rodriguez Casellas en el Nuevo Dia

“Los “hearings” del derecho anglosajón son las “vistas” del simulacro de justicia puertorriqueño. El término “audiencia” es ajeno a este calor, más dado a avivar colores que a afinar oídos.”

TED Talks: Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps. He’s also the co-creator of Photosynth.