
Natalia Escobar Castrillon
Natalia Escobar Castrillón is a licensed architect and a professor of Architecture and Social Justice. She holds a PhD in Architecture and a Master in Design from Harvard University, as well as a Masters in Architecture from the University of Seville. Prior to Carleton, Escobar Castrillón taught graduate courses and advised master students at Harvard University, Boston University, Chile Catholic University, and São Paulo University. Prof. Escobar Castrillón’s research and teaching work addresses questions of spatial justice, social equity, collective identity, displacement, and representation in the built environment. Her publications unpack the complexities of contested buildings and sites worldwide, and discuss the role of design and narrative-making in supporting or silencing social groups. She has taught courses on these topics pursuing engagement practices with local communities.
She has been awarded grants from the Spanish Ministry of Education (TALENTIA), the Jorge Paulo Lemann Foundation, the David Rockefeller Foundation, the Harvard Asia Center, and the São Paulo Academic Research Foundation (FAPESP), among others, which allow her to pursue fieldwork in Europe, Latin America, and Asia where she studied the intersection of architecture with questions of power, gender, race, and social class through the work of architects Lu Wengyu and Wang Shu, and Lina Bo. More recently, Prof. Escobar was awarded a Carleton University International Research Seed Grant to produce visualizations of oppression and resilience of migrant populations in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank. This work been accepted for publication in the upcoming Routledge book Critical Companion to Race and Architecture.
Prof. Escobar Castrillón is also the founder of the architectural journal Oblique that received the AIA NY Center for Architecture Publications Award and aims to revise hegemonic design practices and discourses. She was also the invited editor of editions ARQ and of Materia Arquitectura issue 11 and recently published her reflections on Lina Bo’s alternative notion of modernity at N. Escobar, “Anthropophagic Phenomenology: Encounters at Lina Bo’s SESC Pompeia Cultural and Leisure Center,” in The New Urban Condition: Architecture and the City in the 21st Century, Eds. Tom Avermaete, Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recamán, New York: Routledge, 2021.
Sessions auxquelles Natalia Escobar Castrillon participe
- Foreign Bodies: Mapping Experiences of Exclusion and Resistance of Migrant Women in Ottawa-Gatineau
- Présentateur.rice Natalia Escobar Castrillon (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration I
- “Migrations are made, they don’t just happen. There are conditions which cause them” (Saskia Sassen)Although urban populations are becomi...
- Paper
Sessions auxquelles Natalia Escobar Castrillon assiste
- Foreign Bodies: Mapping Experiences of Exclusion and Resistance of Migrant Women in Ottawa-Gatineau
- Présentateur.rice Natalia Escobar Castrillon (Carleton University) |
- 9:00 AM - 9:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration I
- “Migrations are made, they don’t just happen. There are conditions which cause them” (Saskia Sassen)Although urban populations are becomi...
- Paper
- Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration I UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Les paysages culturels de la migration sont inextricablement liés à l’identité urbaine, sociale et...
- Regular session
- Non-canonical approaches in contemporary teaching: Prospects and limitations
- Présentateur.rice Aniel Guxholli (McGill University) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: La mondialisation de la recherche architecturale au Canada I
- New approaches to conventional architectural histories have sought to create a different historical field, expanding its geographical and cultur...
- Paper
- A Home then, A Home Now UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Natalie Jianyi Kopp (University of Waterloo School of Architecture) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration II
- Home is a deceptively simple term connecting a vast network of people, places, objects, and emotions. As people move from place to place, home m...
- Paper
- City as Civilization: From Ecumenopolis to Res Communis UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Présentateur.rice Alberto de Salvatierra (University of Calgary) |
- 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: La mondialisation de la recherche architecturale au Canada II
- The study of cities purely as discrete objects—that begin and end in a bounded condition—is becoming increasingly obsolete. As Clare Lyster desc...
- Paper
- Our Grand Domestic Revolution: (Re-)making home in Jaffna, Sri Lanka and the Greater Toronto Area UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Mayuri Paranthahan (University of Waterloo School of Architecture) |
- 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration II
- Displacement, describing a sense of uprootedness, is seemingly irreconcilable with the grounding quality of domestic space. However, the practic...
- Paper
- Lunch et présentation du prix Martin Eli Weil - Théâtre
- 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM | 2 heures
- Repas
- The ingredient of space: Reflections on diasporic dining practices UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Michael Windover (Carleton University) | Présentateur.rice Parker Poole |
- 1:30 PM - 1:50 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration II
- Food offers a means of examining spatial stories of migration. As a set of heritage activities, the preparation, storage, and consumption of foo...
- Paper
- Suburban Smart Home UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Bianca Weeko Martin |
- 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM | 10 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration III
- I discuss a narrative “zine”, Home Smart Home, which I created in 2021 as a commission for UKAI Projects and the Goethe-Institut Toronto ...
- Paper
- ACTITECTURE: Socially Transformative Architecture Proposal UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Joudy Kusaibati |
- 3:15 PM - 3:25 PM | 10 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration III
- Architecture has the agency to either perpetuate social exclusion or initiate a social change that can offset the continuing forms of hostile ar...
- Paper
- Dislocated History: Tashme, 80 Years Later UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- Présentateur.rice Tori Hamatani |
- 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Dé-placements : histoires spatiales de la migration III
- Nestled between Johnson Peak, best known as the location of Hope Slide, and Mount Potter, is the former site of the largest Japanese Canadian in...
- Paper
- Hearing indigenous space: notes on oral history methods along the sub-Arctic Pacific Coast UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Présentateur.rice Adil Mansure |
- 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | 20 minutes Partie de: Pause
- This abstract is in anticipation of a long research journey I will soon embark upon: a sub-Arctic circumpolar oral history project to speak with...
- Paper
- Visionnement du film "Roger D'Astous" et entretien avec le réalisateur Étienne Desrosiers UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R510
- 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | 2 heures
- Roger D'Astous est un des plus importants architectes canadiens du 20e siècle. Élève de Frank Lloyd Wright, il oeuvra toute sa vie à fonder une ...
- Voir, entendre, sentir, goûter l’architecture... I
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM | 13 heures 30 minutes
- Le « ressenti » est devenu une clé de lecture du monde prépondérante à l’ère numérique, ce qui pou...
- Regular session
- L’environnement bâti du queer au Canada UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Le queer et les histoires des personnes lesbiennes, homosexuelles, bisexuelles, transgenres et que...
- Regular session
- Les citoyens, l’histoire et le patrimoine UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Depuis le 19e siècle, des citoyens regroupés au sein de différents types d’associations...
- Regular session
- Distinctively Canadian: considering Confederation's post-modern UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R525
- Présentateur.rice Nancy Oakley |
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | 20 minutes Partie de: L’environnement bâti du queer au Canada
- This paper proposes a critical appreciation of Canadian architecture as an expression of a distinctly complex and evolving relationship among pe...
- Paper
- Pause
- 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes
- La conception axée sur l’accessibilité et l’inclusivité UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R515
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Les rampes et les bordures de trottoir abaissées viennent souvent à l’esprit lorsqu’on pense aux m...
- Regular session
- Le patrimoine pour qui? La conservation des espaces communautaires UQAM, pavillon J.-A. De Sève (DS) - DS-R520
- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 1 heure 30 minutes
- Bien que l’architecture et la communauté soient étroitement liées, les structures bâties des « esp...
- Regular session
- Lunch
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | 1 heure
- Repas