@inbook{c6a2fe784bb74dabb2c5f13bf2b41f59,
title = "Metamodelizing the Territory: On Teddy Cruz{\textquoteright}s Diagrammatic Urbanism",
abstract = "This chapter discusses the use and deployment of diagrams in the architectural and urban design practices of Estudio Teddy Cruz. Diagrams denote both a visualisation device providing an overview of often complex relations and a more abstract connotation pertaining to the relation of mostly heterogeneous forces and movements. The chapter will explore both dimensions as part and parcel of what will be termed {\textquoteleft}diagrammatic urbanism{\textquoteright}. The studio engages in urban development projects at the intersection of social, economic, and material (urban/architectural) dynamics. In order to make these dynamic relations graspable the studios{\textquoteright} extensive use of diagrams becomes part and parcel of its socio-political scope. The studio{\textquoteright}s diagrammatic urbanism expresses the use of aesthetic strategies coupled with direct social and political intervention, foregrounding a participatory form of urban activism. Highlighting concrete re-development projects but also focusing on the studio{\textquoteright}s aim of re-conceptualising “trans-border urbanism beyond the property line” (Cruz, 2008), the chapter proposes a shift from the traditional notion of the model towards a progressive practice of emergent metamodelisation. Moving from products to processes, metamodelisation as practice and concept allows for further explorations of diagrams as ethico-aesthetic devices in support of emergent forms of translocal activism.",
author = "Christoph Brunner",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9781315645827-6",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-138-18349-0",
series = "Routledge studies in human geography",
pages = "58--71",
editor = "Thomas Jellis and Joe Gerlach and John-David Dewsbury",
booktitle = "Why Guattari? A Liberation of Cartographies, Ecologies and Politics",
publisher = "Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)",
address = "United Kingdom",
}