WLTE Master Calendar

Dr. Magdalena Novoa Echaurren (DRUP) presentation invites participants to rethink territorial planning, moving away from a universalist and technocratic approach toward a pluriversal perspective that recognizes the coexistence of multiple knowledges, experiences, and territorial worlds. It proposes a decolonial and transformative form of planning oriented toward sustaining life, redistributing epistemic power, and opening space for multiple futures built from below and through dialogue among diverse ways of inhabiting and knowing.

Through situated methods—such as artistic practices, territorial narratives, collective mapping, and embodied exercises—the workshop promotes horizontal forms of knowledge co-production in planning, recognizing this process as anchored in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. These methods make it possible to bring into view silenced memories, affects, care practices, and conflicts, expanding what counts as valid knowledge in planning. Finally, the presentation emphasizes an ethics of care, in which participants’ rhythms, silences, and decisions are central, and where the process matters as much as the outcomes. Rather than seeking universal solutions or closed consensus, it fosters partial translation among knowledges, openness to dissent, and the collective construction of possible futures. This presentation connects with the exhibition: Memorias de la Mujer Lotina: Arpilleras, women and coal in Chile, which opens at the Krannert Art Museum on February 26 and the weeklong artists' residency from March 30 to April 5.