Projects that address the contemporary possibilities of Panama as a crossing point of world history and geography.

This 2-year Integrated Pathway studio, working in collaboration with the Patrimonio Vivo initiative in Panama, develops projects that explore the idea of ‘living heritage’ in Panama City and beyond.

The study began with a semester-long project focused on the colonial ‘Archive of the Indes’ in Seville, Spain, which explored critical and creative ways of working upon cultural memory as it is inscribed within the institution of the archive and its heterogenous objects.

Following this, the studio researched, graphically presented and debated a series of topics that articulated current concerns in order to inform the definition of sites and the trajectory of the projects that would develop: Living and Working in Panama; Questions of Tourism; What Counts as Heritage?; Climate, Ecology and Social Justice; Panama and Global Logistics; Contemporary Critical Cultural Production; and Counterfactual Histories.