2022 | Santiago, Chile

Visual Designer for The ‘other‘ Cold War cities exhibition

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This exhibition is part of the doctoral research of the architect Francisco Quintana, in collaboration with Bárbara Salazar. For the occasion, they invited me to develop graphic elements that visually represented the data gathered during their academic research. 

In a nutshell, this work showcases an “urban Cold War”. It traces the history of an urban development operation implemented by the United States on a geopolitical scale. Architecture and urbanism in developing countries worldwide were instrumentalized to fortify the conflict lines of Cold War confrontations.  

The central element of this exhibition was a map that displayed the global scale of the operation in a very graphic way—a visual synthesis of the large research performed by Quintana and his team. Conceptually wise, we pursued a representation of a 1970s war room, as an immersive experience that would transport the audience to retro-futuristic analog times. In that vein, the exhibition takes tremendous inspiration from the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) directed by Stanley Kubrick. The political satire black comedy takes place in a staggering war room that captures the essence of that era. Therefore, the map was a stunning wall of light aimed to show this ambitious operation in one picture. The central piece was supported by extensive documentation spread in the gallery.