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Este trabajo reflexiona sobre la capacidad fundante de las prácticas en el ámbito del diseño y sitúa en ella una de las aspiraciones para perfeccionar el diseño ecológico. Arrancaremos de perspectivas próximas al pensamiento feminista como las de Haraway, Stengers o Barad, quienes nos alertan sobre la necesidad de relacionarnos más y mejor con otras entidades más allá de lo humano. También de la propuesta de Braidotti sobre la pertinencia de actuar desde éticas y políticas afirmativas. Propondremos como inspiración la ruptura producida en la cultura científica con el trabajo de las primeras primatólogas en los años 60 donde el afecto, los cuidados o la empatía irrumpen en el espectro de lo valioso y significativo. La pregunta a examen es la posibilidad de repensar la creatividad en la arquitectura desde los dominios más cálidos del estar juntos. Finalmente se propondrán dos estudios de caso recientes donde se reconoce la operatividad de los aportes teóricos en las prácticas arquitectónicas. ; This work reflects on the founding capacity in the domains of design and locates in its presence one of the aspirations to improve the so-named ecological design. We will begin from proposals close to feminist theory as that of Haraway, Stengers and Barad, who alert us of the needing to relate more and better with other entities beyond the humans. Also, from Braidotti proposal on the need for ethics and affirmative politics. As an example, we will propose the rupture produced in the scientific culture with the first women primatologist appearance in the 1960s, where affection, care and empathy, burst into the scope of what is valuable and significant. The final question to test is the possibility of rethinking creativity in architecture from the warmer domains of being together. Finally, we will explore two recent case studies where the operativity of these theoretical contributions in architectural practices can be recognized.

Sustainability, understood in its beginnings as a common horizon for multiple practices and fields of study, has gradually given way to the development of increasingly sophisticated tools, with distinct dominant meanings established for each discipline. Within the field of material technologies for architectural production, sustainability seems to have found its most fertile ground in topics such as recycling, the use of "bio" materials, or energetic efficiency. However, to improve the understanding of the impact of technology on our ways of living, it appears increasingly necessary to move from the deterministic logic of sustainability into the relational domain of ecology, where the use and deployment of technologies can be observed through the multiplicity of its effects and the diversity of actors involved. In this paper we will address the case of the rehabilitation of several traditional houses located in the Murcian town of Blanca to host the "Espacio Doméstico" VideoArt Center (EDOM). In this action the selection and implementation of technologies have been aimed at impacting on diverse aspects including local communities, digital manufacturing, recycling, and policies regarding the rehabilitation of heritage buildings. While the initial approach was to address housing recovery as a heterogeneous accumulation of stories, technologies or material deployments of the domestic, our intervention strategies ascribed to the different technologies the role of mediating with existing elements through the incorporation of the very different visions of sustainability. Thus, we displayed artifacts produced by digitally manufactured methacrylate assembled on IKEA structures, fluorescent power lines supported by insulators on the wall, fluorescent tattoos on walls and ceilings that guide and extend the configuration of existing flooring, esparto furniture and fabrics produced by the esparto women workers' and village women's associations, re-appropriations of old furniture through the implementation of new media technologies, etc. If we can see seduction as the process of converting affinities and disagreements into affirmative communication, then the EDOM proposal can be seen as an active seduction process between technologies and users who approach this kind of cultural artifacts. Through these permanently active processes, art technologies will refer the viewer to complex sensory experiences, where a combination of parody, memory and sound pushes the user to the limit of mere comprehension of works of art. This more relational approach to the issue of heritage rehabilitation, technology or art institutions is offered as an area of controversy and debate on the scope of political ecology and its potential impact on the architect's professional practice.

El texto que a continuación se presenta se corresponde de manera bastante fidedigna con el texto que el autor leyó en el acto de defensa de su tesis doctoral, realizada en la Universidad de Alicante el 14 de junio de 2012. El tribunal estuvo compuesto por Remedios Zafra, Federico Soriano, Jessica Jaques, Miguel Angel Hernández y Juan Freire. Los directores del trabajo fueron José María Torres Nadal y Pedro Alberto Cruz. Después de lo vivido, lo pensado, y lo contado, descubro perplejo al final de esta investigación que la relevancia de lo que hemos realizado junto con otrxs muchxs en la Universidad de Alicante, radica precisamente en una obsesión infantil por organizar lo prescindible, todo aquello que no nos es requerido para el cumplimiento de nuestras estrictas funciones académicas. O por utilizar otros términos, descubro con un cierto horror que casi nada de lo que en algún momento nos ha llegado a excitar parece atravesado por los dispositivos maquínicos institucionales. ; The text presented below corresponds reliably with the text that the author read in the act of defending his doctoral thesis, conducted at the University of Alicante on 14 June 2012. The court was composed of Remedios Zafra, Federico Soriano, Jessica Jaques, Miguel Angel Hernandez and Juan Freire. The directors of the study were José María Torres Nadal and Pedro Alberto Cruz. After all we have lived, thought, and told, I find astonished at the end of this research that the relevance of what we have done with many others at the University of Alicante, lies precisely in a childlike obsession with organizing the dispensable, I mean, everything that is not required to comply with our strict academic functions. Using other terms, I discover with some horror that almost nothing that at some point has come to excite us seems crossed by institutional machinic devices.

La Vision de un lider sobre el Mexico de hoy: Su analisis, sus propuestas. Es inadmisible que Mexico este a la deriva, sumergido en la violencia y el deterioro economico. no acepto que en nuestro pais. A pesar de sus grandes fortalezas, capaces de sustentar un gran futuro para sus hijos, prive ahora un clima de incertidumbre y preocupacion. nuestra generacion tiene un reto de acabar con el miedo y renovar la esperanza. y tiene la capacidad para hacerlo. Bajo esa densa capa de preocupaciones, temores y tristezas que se le ha impuesto a nuestro pais en la ultima decada, prevalece en Mexico una volutad y un impulso de transformacion; en toda la republica se percibe la necesidad de un cambio. Se ha extraviado la conduccion pero tenemos proyecto. En estos anos, un estado disfuncional nos ha arrastrado por una pendiente al ser incapaz de crear las condiciones minimas de seguridad publica, crecimiento economico, empleo digno, educacion y seguridad social de calidad

When Enrique Pena Nieto, 47, became Mexico's president, on December 1, 2012, expectations were hardly sky-high. A one-term state governor, Pena Nieto was relatively untested. His election also represented a return to power for Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had run the country for 70 years before being ousted in 2000 in the country's first freely contested elections. Many feared that Pena Nieto's ascendance would mean a resumption of the bad old days of crony capitalism, economic stagnation, and tacit cooperation with the country's brutal drug cartels. Instead, the new president immediately set about enacting far-reaching economic reforms, taking on fiscal policy, unions, oligarchs, and a cosseted energy sector in rapid succession. Adapted from the source document.

Enrique Pena Nieto was the overwhelming favorite in polls from the beginning of the presidential election campaign in Mexico. In fact, the candidate of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) enjoyed a nearly ideal situation. The track record of the National Action Party (PAN), in power for a dozen years, was mixed at best, with the country experiencing very serious social, economic and security problems. The PRI, after leading the country continuously from 1929 to 2000, has undergone significant changes: it is no longer the authoritarian party of yesteryear, but a modern and now fully democratic organization. However, the best argument for Mr. Pena Nieto is in fact ... himself! Just 46, he can already boast of his successes as the head of the State of Mexico, the most populous state in the country, where he was governor from 2005 to 2011. In an exclusive interview with Politique Internationale, this lawyer-who looks more like a young leading man-discusses his extensive plans in detail. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines the impact of electoral systems on the success of regionalist parties in national elections held in 22 Western European regions from 1980 to 2004. Our study covers 30 regionalist parties, only those usually achieving more than one percent of the regional vote in the period under observation. Electoral systems are defined in terms of three main components: ballot structure, constituency magnitude & electoral formula. In particular, we focus on the effects of these elements on multipartism & on support for regionalist parties. Electoral results are, in turn, analyzed at constituency level. The analysis of 1622 district election results suggests two main conclusions: proportional systems clearly encourage multipartism but there is no evidence that they foster support for regionalist parties. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.