Written by the directors of one of the Amazon Basin’s strongest enforcement bodies, this chapter describes, in great detail, how a national agency puts together a nationwide system of environmental enforcement able to reach into every activity and region. It also shows how that system grapples with the country’s vast Amazon region amid clamors for economic development, tensions between the central government and local populations, the uncertainty of national politics, and other formidable roadblocks for what could be an international model of ecological enforcement.

The systematic monitoring of citizens by the state in Peru was revealed in 2000, after the collapse of the second administration of ex-president Alberto Fujimori (1995-2000). Fujimori resigned in his last year in office, after a network of government espionage and corruption was revealed. This included video recordings of secret meetings and alleged communications surveillance conducted and managed by presidential advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, working with the National Intelligence Service (SIN). This systematic surveillance by the state resulted in the dissemination of private information, recordings and videos of public officials, journalists and many other influential people. These events sparked the beginning of the debate around the purpose of surveillance in Peru, and the violation of the right to private communications by state agencies and private entities – and what legislation could be developed to regulate this. This discussion is ongoing, with more cases of communications interception being revealed.

In this paper, the author explains why architects who know how to use scripts have an advantage over the ones who just know how to manipulate a specific software. The reason behind this affirmation is that knowing how to program frees the architect from the rules and language of the interactive software. To prove his point, the author organized two workshops where students at the school of architecture learned to use Rhinoscript. The students didn’t create a new interface, but used an existing one. They adapted the program (Rhino) to a design problem they had formulated at the beginning of the workshop. Students could have also used MaxScript (3DS Max) and MelScript (Maya).

Un hombre con el espíritu inquieto y las pasiones a flor de piel, que se dejó envolver por los deseos de calmar sus dudas internas con respecto a lo que lo motivaba en la vida. Decidió dejar atrás un prometedor futuro como arquitecto para dedicar sus energías, su alma, sus emociones, y sus demonios a su verdadera vocación: el arte. Cuando el sentimiento es más fuerte, lo demás no importa. Ramiro Llona se encaminó en una aventura artística en Nueva York, lugar en el que se conectó con los distintos estilos artísticos de profesionales que tanto admiraba. El arte calmó las expectativas de su corazón, pero sus hijos: María, Cristóbal, Ramiro y Sofía, saciaron el fervor de su alma y la vitalidad de sus días.

This review will focus on Parts I and III. It summarizes the historical context faced by the Peruvian economy since 1980 and briefly describes the main challenges it will confront in the near future to maintain its relevant position within the global economy.

The Exhibition “Homo Faber: Digital Fabrication in Latin America” is an event related to the CAAD Futures 16th Conference, “The Next City”. The proposal to support this exhibition responds to the need to grasp more widely the Latin American digital fabrication context linked to the field of architecture. This was a rich and challenging process of capturing an ever changing scenario. Mapping, as Janet Abrams and Peter Hall remember us, “has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable (…) mapping refers to a process – ongoing, incomplete and of indeterminate, mutable form.” (Else/where: mapping. New cartographies of networks and territories, 2006) Our mapping highlights a recent context of starting and development of fab labs in Latin America. Beginning in university research centers, and consolidated in university platforms, this movement expands with the formation of laboratory networks and the emergence of studios and independent researchers investigating and exploring new uses for digital fabrication in architecture and in related fields.

Aquí se presenta una lista de festivales internacionales y fondos dedicados al cine y producción audiovisual. Esta lista ha sido tomada del libro “Arte y gestión de la producción audiovisual”, escrito por Santiago Carpio y publicado por Editorial UPC.