DE VICENTE
JOSÉ LUIS
José Luis de Vicente is a curator and cultural researcher. He investigates the current and future impact of social and technological innovation through artifacts, objects, and narratives that explore emerging social and political scenarios.
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His projects are strongly anti-disciplinarian, creating contexts of collaboration and dialogue between artists, designers, architects, technologists, scientists, activists, and communities.
He is the curator of Sónar +D, the congress of digital culture and technologies of the Sónar Festival of Barcelona. He is the co-founder and co-director of Tentacular, a festival of Critical Technologies and Digital Adventures in Matadero (Madrid), and a member of the programming team of Llum BCN, the light festival of Barcelona. He has curated multiple exhibitions, in and outside of Spain, such as “Big Bang Data” and “After the End of the World” (both at the CCCB, Barcelona), “Atmospheric Memory” (Manchester International Festival), ”Radical Curiosity: In the Buckminster Fuller Orbit” (Fundación Telefónica, Madrid), and others. He teaches at the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IaaC).
LECTURE + PANEL
The talk introduces material counter-poetics as a critical framework for design practice. It centres materiality as a site that bears both the afterlives of extractive capitalism and the conditions that can support collective flourishing.
Through a series of projects that sit with and within damaged ecologies, To Re-enchant Contested Grounds explores practices that engage with the toxic, the residual, and the submerged not just as conditions to be analysed, but as grounds from which to collectively mobilise and rehearse other worldings.
By fostering fabulations rooted in situated material knowledges, design’s role is rethought as an act of re-enchantment—a fiction committed to imagining and sustaining possible futures and enabling practices that support intersectional, intergenerational justice from within the realities of the now.