Cosmologies #03 TALK - Víctor Muñoz Sanz
COSMOLOGIES. Rethinking Anomalies in Urban and Architectural Research on China and Beyond
A series marking the 10th anniversary of the China Room research group
Third event of the Cosmologies series: "Platform Architectures: From Factory Floors to Random Stacks"
What spatial forms emerge when production and consumption are reorganized through platforms and automation? This lecture connects robotic factories and e-commerce afterlives to reveal how platform architectures restructure territories, redistribute labor, and generate new forms of spatial inequality and material excess.
About the Guest - Víctor Muñoz Sanz
Assistant professor of urban design at Delft University of Technology. He conceptualizes, leads, and develops critical research on the architecture and urbanism of the past, present, and future of work, examining how the design of productive landscapes intersects with technology and management practices. Víctor qualified as an architect at the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM, 2006) and holds a Master of Architecture in urban design, with distinction, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2011) and a PhD cum laude in architecture from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2016). He is the author of the books Reconnecting Cities, People, and Nature (Birkhäuser, 2025) and Una Rápida Compañera (Bartlebooth 2024), as well as co-editor of Automated Landscapes (Nieuwe Instituut, 2023), Roadside Picnics: Encounters with the Uncanny (dpr Barcelona, 2022), and Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture(nai010, 2022). Prior to his current position at Delft, he was a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, coordinator of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre and co-principal researcher of Automated Landscapes at Het Nieuwe Instituut, and Emerging Curator at the Canadian Center for Architecture. Víctor is co-curator of the exhibition Convivium: Food Systems at the Limits at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich (April-October 2026).
Moderated by Giorgia Greco in dialogue with Alberto Valz Gris (DIST) and Giulio Gonella (DAD)
The talk will be in English
It will be available online on Zoom platform at this link
Further details can be found in the attached posters and at this link
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