EVENT SUMMARY · Book Launch: Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America
On September 29th, 2022, OLA hosted the book launch of Lena Simet’s book Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America, Intra-Urban Inequality in Argentina, published by Routledge in 2022. Lena Simet is a senior researcher and advocate on poverty and inequality at...
Video of the conversation Gamers del Sur: Other Futures
In this discussion, a group of academics spoke with the authors of three video games produced in the course “Design and production of video games” of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires. This video is spoken...
Meeting 2084: an Argentine Tunnel
On March 25-26, 2022, the 2084: Imagined Futures from the South program landed on earth. The landing site was in Buenos Aires, when a dozen high school students, half from Tilcara, a small town in the Andes and half from greater Buenos Aires, joined together to share...
Book · 2084: Un túnel argentino
Enthusiastic about the 2084: Imagined Futures from the South program, the National Directorate of Patrimonial Management of Argentina instructed that two national museums, the Terry National Museum and the Manzana de las Luces Historical Complex, promote and...
COVID-19 in Real Time: Comparing the Struggle of Three Low-Income Neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires
The prestigious journal Environment & Urbanization has recently published a synthesis of the research carried out by the Observatory on Latin America with the support of Chalmers University of Gothenburg and the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The...
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