Víctor Muñoz Sanz
Víctor Muñoz Sanz is an Assistant Professor of Urban Design (Tenure Track) at the Department of Urbanism of TU Delft. His recent work has examined the notion of workscapes, that is, the architectures and territories of human and nonhuman labor resulting from managerial and technological innovations. His PhD studied the transnational urbanism of the Bata Shoe Company satellite towns. For that, he did unprecedented fieldwork and archival research (20 towns, 13 countries) funded by Harvard's Druker Fellowship. This work received the 2018 Anthony Sutcliffe Dissertation Award of the International Planning History Society, recognizing the best thesis in planning history of 2016-17.
Muñoz Sanz holds the degree of Architect from the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006), a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, with distinction, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011), and a Ph.D. cum laude in Architecture from UPM (2016). He was a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft in the project 'Cities of Making', and fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Prior to that, he was coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre, co-principal researcher of 'Automated Landscapes' at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Emerging Curator at the Canadian Center for Architecture, and research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
His research has been published, among others, in Urban Planning, Articulo-Journal of Urban Research, Solitude Journal, Harvard Design Magazine, Volume, Domus, e-flux Architecture, and in several book chapters. He is the co-editor of issue 25 of Footprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal (with Dan Handel, 2019), and the books Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture (with Dirk van den Heuvel and Janno Martens, 2020) and Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (with Alkistis Thomidou, 2022). He has lectured internationally, and his work on 'Automated Landscapes' was exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2018.
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Sessions in which Víctor Muñoz Sanz participates
Thursday 1 September, 2022
Sessions in which Víctor Muñoz Sanz attends
Sunday 28 August, 2022
Join the conference organisers and TICCIH board members for a welcome cocktail and some festive words of introduction, in the former forge of the École technique de Montréal, founded in 1909, now part of the Université du Québec à Montréal campus.
Monday 29 August, 2022
In a traditional Quebec sugar shack atmosphere, enjoy a maple taffy rolled on snow in the purest tradition, accompanied by music of the occasion!
Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.
Tuesday 30 August, 2022
This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...
This session focuses on company towns from the perspective of urban planning. “Company towns” are here defined as single-enterprise planned communities, usually centered around a single industry, where a company commissions an urban plan, builds housing for its workers, and sets up recreational, commercial, institutional or community facilities. While these are now endangered by a second wave of deindustrialization, we observe that, aside studies or monographs of individual towns that popu...
Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.
Wednesday 31 August, 2022
This session brings together a set of studies focused on the uses adaptative reuses (and even replications) of industrial heritage in the larger context of its urban and social landscapes. Urban industrial memory, its social and territorial impacts, as well as its conservation and promotion, will be discussed from a variety of case studies ranging from Central and Southern Europe to Turkey, China and North America. The interdisciplinary approaches underlying each of the studies will also b...
In this lecture, I would like to talk about deindustrialised communities, heritage and memory in the context of right-wing populism. Drawing on studies of memory and heritage, I argue that right-wing populists have cornered the market on talking about the past of deindustrialised communities. They have successfully misrepresented this rich and complex history to fuel rage, resentment, fear and reactionary nostalgia. Indeed, ‘the past’, and in particular the industr...
Join us for an informal continuation of the discussion started with the public lecture.A drink will be offered to the first fifteen people.
Thursday 1 September, 2022
The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at the end of the 19th century, became one of the best-known largest shoe producers in the world in the second half of the twentieth century. The company was not characterised by the unique organisational structure and implementation of disruptive innovations only. Also, it is connected with significant investments in the social life of its employees....
The Bata Company, which evolved from a small workshop in Zlin in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, today being part of the Czech Republic, at the end of the 19th century, became one of the best-known largest shoe producers in the world in the second half of the twentieth century. The company was not characterised by the unique organisational structure and implementation of disruptive innovations only. Also, it is connected with significant investments in the social life of its employees....
This lecture will argue that the landscapes of industrial heritage that can be found in different parts of the world are directly related to the place-specific trajectories of deindustrialization. In other words: the different ways in which deindustrialization impacts on local communities has a direct bearing on the emergence of forms of industrial heritage. I will differentialte between deindustrialization paths and related industrial heritage regimes in a) Anglo-...
Friday 2 September, 2022
In the refusal of people in communities abandoned by industrial capital to abandon their own places, we can read an implicit critique of the mobility and unaccountability of capital, raised by those who were once inside (however tenuously or uncomfortably) and now find themselves marginalized, “left behind.” The desire to catch up again, whether through attracting new investment or transvaluing abandoned sites as tourist attractions, makes this an essentially conservative critique that is ...
