Living Continuity is a collective inquiry on the challenges and opportunities of working towards spatially just neighbourhoods. Session VI explores the importance of amplifying and enabling community voices. What are the challenges, incremental and transformative actions necessary to challenge current systems that exclude and marginalize the global majority? How can modes of research support modes of resistance? Marcos Parga presents his research on decentralized domesticities. Inspired by the isolation many experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and reflecting on the scarcity of housing in many urban centers, he attempts to imagine new models that allow residents to reclaim the architectures they have been given.

Marcos Parga, Ph.D., is an international, award winning architect and designer, Assistant Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture and founding principal of MAPAa Estudio, a design practice based in Syracuse, NY (USA) and Madrid (Spain). His research explores alternative ways of practicing and evaluating the architecture of the collective, considering the impact of contemporary environmental, political, economic, and social issues on the built environment and its influence on creating the appropriate conditions for certain social changes to occur. Through his current work he investigates emerging models of urban commons and new forms of shared domesticities, questioning the political role of architects in shaping those alternative realities.