This project focuses on sustainable mobility projects in Cuenca, Ecuador. I explore how the implementation of new designs and infrastructures shape the lifeworlds of the city, and how the notion of sustainability thereby takes on cosmopolitical dimensions.
From my ethnography on mobility infrastructures in Cuenca, I started to reflect on the role infrastructures play in populist dynamics, in Ecuador and beyond. What I call “material populism” opens up a space for thinking about the materialities of political developments.
The most recent project focuses on the ways in which heritage-making produces (un)livable environments. Based on research in Ecuador and Spain, it looks into how people participate in the making of heritages as ecologies of value.
