Luis Tsukayama-Cisneros's public scholarship, photography and visual documentation
I would like to announce that my first book has just been launched in Spanish by Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. “Comiendo Con El Corazón: Cómo La Comida Abre (o No) Espacios de Integración en Lima” (Eating With The Hearth: How Food Opens (or not) Spaces of Integration in Lima.”).
Read MoreHere's an article I just wrote for The Centre for Conscious Design (CCD) about what democratic design is, why it's important, what it entails for design practitioners and policy stakeholders focused on cities, and why communities are so central to make cities vibrant.
Read MoreIn this video, I argue why it's important to have a people-centered perspective when thinking about the way cities are designed around the world, and why public spaces are so important for this.
Read MorePublic spaces are essential to city life. Public spaces are places such as plazas, parks, streets lined with things to do, where people can see other people. “Others” are not just family and neighbors, but moreover people one would not normally see in one’s own area of residence, including people from different socioeconomic backgrounds or from areas of the city different from ours. Public spaces are thus central for people to become accustomed to seeing strangers and developing a sense of diversity and civic congeniality. The district of Los Olivos (Lima, Peru) has developed as an up-and-coming residential neighborhood with lots of parks but with no real public spaces. In this article, I explore how this affects public life and people's high sense of danger and lack of public security.
Read MoreWhilst the case of the city of Lima is my the focus of my work, in this article I would like to focus on what civil society is and what happens when it does not exist. To do this, I would like to refer to another case in Peru, that of the cities of Puno and Juliaca, and later compare them to the case of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Read MoreHere's a link to an excellent article about the importance of the seedier aspects of cities around the world. This is not Marxist nostalgia or a form of utopia. On the contrary, I believe much of what Benjamin loved about these cities (Marseille, Napoli and Moscow) is what has made New York City great but it is rapidly losing it as well.
Read MoreOne of my heroines, talking about the relationship between creativity and the city (or more specifically, how New York City --specifically the East Village--has lost its creative edge to favor the clean, high-end of the "creative industry"). This is a great interview!
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