EDITORIAL &
RESEARCH
Nine Urban Biotopes -Negotiating the Future of Urban Living, urban dialogues, Johannesburg, Durban, Paris, London, Turin, Berlin, 2015
Editor and Researcher: Valentina Rojas Loa
Nine Urban Biotopes – Negotiating the future of urban living (9UB) was an international, socially engaged art project delivering artistic research and cultural exchange. The participating initiatives worked around and responded to issues of safety and housing, youth and migration, education and environment, mobility and economic subsistence. From January through September 2014, nine artistic projects were produced in nine urban settings. Four European artists – Armin Linke, Antje Schiffers, Marjetica Potrč and Anthony Schrag – worked in Johannesburg and Durban, while at the same time five South Africans – Athi-Patra Ruga, Dan Halter, Taswald Pillay, Terry Kurgan and Rangoato Hlasane – worked in Berlin, London, Paris and Turin.
Citámbulos: The Incidence of the Remarkable. Guide to the Marvels of Mexico City, Mexico, 2007
Authors and Editors: Valentina Rojas Loa, Ana Álvarez, Christian von Wissel et.al.
Through the exploration of 121 everyday out of the thousands of hidden marvels of Mexico City, this guide became an invitation for the city’s inhabitants to rediscover their own urban landscape. Radically unconventional for its time, the guide transformed wandering into a form of knowledge and urban curiosity as wells a political and poetic act. It also marked the beginning of over a decade of books, exhibitions, dérives, urban interventions, and conversations with Mexico City — and later with cities around the world — developed by the Citámbulos collective.
Citámbulos – A Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis, Jovis, Berlin, 2009
Editors: Valentina Rojas Loa, Ana Álvarez, Christian von Wissel, Fionn Petc
Graphic Design: Luis Rodríguez
Citámbulos – A Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis was published as the Spanish, German, and English catalogue for the first exhibition of Citámbulos at the German Centre for Architecture in Berlin 2008, yet it quickly transcended the format of an exhibition catalogue to become a journey into Mexico City itself. This catalogue is also a remarkable photographic documentation of Mexico City, bringing together some of the city’s most emblematic photographers of the 2000s, like Dante Busquets, Benjamin Alcantara, Lidia Romero, Mark Powell, among many others.
Perspectivas Latin-Amerika
Heinrich Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, 2017-2020
Co-editor: Valentina Rojas Loa
Perspectivas Latin-America is a multidisciplinary magazine edited by the Latin-America Department of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin. It offers critical analysis, informed debate, and diverse voices on democracy, social justice, environmental transformation, feminism, human rights, and geopolitical change across Latin-America. Through essays, interviews, and reports, the publication connects regional experiences with global challenges and progressive perspectives.