consultancies
capacity building
knowledge transfer
private-public partnerships
credit-making innovations
IN GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
LAB
Social Design, Systems & Territory Strategy
The engine for macro-scale, interdisciplinary orchestration. We aim to "desubjectify" traditional design boundaries to operate at the intersection of environmental approaches, mixed-methods sociology, social design, and territory strategy. We act as the vital interlocutor between disciplines collapsing the lines between artists, engineers, policymakers, and citizens. We turn impact evaluations into innovations.
Services: Consultancies, instruction design, training, storytelling, strategy business development, positioning, knowledge management, impact evaluations for development projects, environmental & social safeguards, environmental and social framework evaluations, finance bonds and guarantee negotiations, biodiversity financing, strategic link to architecture, design and visualizations, pedagogy design, project management in engineering, life cycle analyses, social design, talent development and team development, placemaking, Gehl-like methodologies, and writing.
We lean on the private sector to democratize our ideas, on citizens to bridge top-down technical analyses with inclusive every-day placemaking community practices. The lab experiments with academic actors to legitimize and decentralize our proposals, often merging with local governments. We shape the intelligent, equitable systems that cross-disciplinary designers inhabit with their lines. Driven by the foundational 2020-2021 pedagogy and our current active partnership.
Heavy influence on the London School of Economics' Geography and Environment (LSE), France's la Sorbonne's social science philosophy, Zofnass' sustainable infrastructure, from Harvard Graduate School of Design's landscape approach united with sociology based analyses.
LAB Members: Maria Beatriz Garcia Rincon, Luciano Landaeta, 2021-2022 DisLocal Alumni, the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (Academia de Moda, multimedia lab) and GRIP (Holberg Award Winner, Bjorn Bertelsen) at University of Bergen (2021 - present).
Current Ongoing Projects: 1- Dignity Third Spaces (post earthquake prototype and social design for social bonds beyond temporary housing structures in post natural disaster scenarios), 2- Diploma Cultural Design, 3- El Guaire River: the Nature-Based Costs, 4- Gender Assessment Frameworks: Informal Settlements, 5- El Calvario Settlement, 6- Radical Pedagogy.
Active Invited Participation in DisLocal Studio Projects: 7- Rio Turbio, 8- Acrobacia and Cauce (Everyone's House in La Palomera).
Note: Mabe's current role as UCV Urban Studies professor is separate from this Lab.
STUDIO
Architecture & Design Technical Execution
The engine for technical project delivery, material precision, and formal spatial engineering. Focused on the rigorous structural cycles required to anchor high-level policy concepts into permanent physical reality, we master the technical specifications and construction methodologies that define contemporary build-tanks.
Services: Capacity building with communities, landscape approach design, architecture design, housing, community and public spaces.
Driven by the foundational 2020-2021 execution principles and a legacy of collective projects, we synthesize physical terrain data and structural design into complex built environments. We draw the permanent, high-precision lines that manifest systemic territorial strategy into physical space and urban assets (buildings, plazas, public space, the architectural object).
Heavy influence on Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) Architecture Faculty (FAU) pedagogy and French ENSA architecture circuit, Belgium-based landscape curriculum, and architecture at its purist form. Both Studio and Lab are under partnerships under GRIP, University of Bergen and in collaboration with the LAB's structural frameworks as precursor to architectural byproducts.
STUDIO Members: Marcos Coronel Bravo, Khristian Ceballos, Alessandro Famiglietti, Daniel Otero, Ricardo Sanz, Rodrigo Marin, Rafael Machado, Barbara de Sousa. UCV Partnerships for River Caribe and River Turbio Projects were heavily influenced through UDE UCV (satellite university of Architecture in Lara state in Barquisimeto) and under Dean Caricatto and Director Marcos Coronel-Khristian Ceballo's vision with UCV partners. Yet the landscape approaches and thematic vision is a collaborative feature of those pilot projects with the LAB.
Current Ongoing Projects: 1- Pedagogy Approach Experimentation for In-Situ Community Knowledge Transfer, 2- El Calvario Settlement, 3- Cabudare Capacity Building Lara Project, 4- Rio Turbio, 5- Casa Mara Research, 6- Rio Caribe Project, 7- Acrobacia y Cauce [Acrobats and River Movements].
Active Invited Participation in DisLocal Lab Project: 8- Diploma Cultural Design.
Note: Marcos role as UCV Director and professor is outside of the constraints of this Studio.
Institutional Governance & Proprietary Notice All contents developed by DisLocal ©. DisLocal Lab and DisLocal Studio operate under distinct contractual agreements, budgetary frameworks, and proprietary rights. Only Executive and Co-Directors are legally authorized to execute signatures or enter into binding agreements on behalf of their respective entities.(Lab: Maria Beatriz Garcia; Studio: Marcos Coronel). Project proposals initiated by tertiary members under DisLocal Lab or DisLocal Studio must be submitted formally in writing, including summarized meeting details, with info@dislocal.org explicitly copied. Commitments made outside of this official transparent institutional framework do not constitute legally binding proposals or representation by the organization. The Lab is not conducting projects with national entities due to the transitional nature of the current governmental institutions. All projects are international in scope, or with vetted municipal entities, universities, or civil society organizations and grassroots activist organizations.