Territorio Tolosa
TERRITORIO TOLOSA
Coordinators: Luciana Lima and Verónica Pastuszuk + artists and neighbors from the Tolosa neighborhood
Year of Creation: 2016 – present
Location: Tolosa, La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires
Contact: [email protected]
IG: http://instagram.com/territoriotolosa/
YT: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdKi1-IcLRBSEuIPzhhXrag
Description, Concept, Objectives
Territorio Tolosa is a project of urban contemplation and neighborhood transformation coordinated by architects and transdisciplinary artists Luciana Lima and Verónica Pastuszuk.
It was born in 2016 in the neighborhood of Tolosa, where we live, through a National Fund for the Arts Architecture Grant.
Our aim is to see the neighborhood from multiple perspectives and to contemplate the poetry of everyday life. Architects, artists, and neighbors come together to walk, document, photograph, draw, and intervene artistically in public and private spaces. We visit house-museums and clubs. We conduct collective mapping workshops, residencies, lecture series, exhibitions, contests, philosophical walks, and signposting.
We have led over 100 walking tours through our neighborhood and other cities including Tolosa, La Plata, Arana, La Caleta, Amsterdam, Madrid, Venice, Rome, and Sicardi.
Activities
-100 urban contemplation walks
-A neighborhood transformation project in the Tolosa warehouses, part of Luciana Lima’s master’s thesis in Architectural Project (MaPA-FADU-UBA), directed by Dr. Arq. Inés Moisset and Arq. Gustavo Diéguez. Ongoing since 2023.
-Members of La Ciudad Que Resiste, a feminist architecture network and extension program at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, La Plata.
-Coordinators of the residency Inhabiting Our Wilderness at the El Pescado stream, in collaboration with Arquitectura Rioplatense (Franco Palacios) and Una Fauna Artificial (Facundo López), involving walks, collective meals, and map-making from salvaged wood. (2025)
-Speakers at the talk Architecture in Transition and the conference Tiempo Común by Luciana Lima (2025)
-Hosts of a biweekly radio column on Radio Universidad 107.5 titled How to Make a City? (2025)
-Participants in the 4th Experimental Coastal Congress along the shores of Berisso and Ensenada (2024)
-Workshop with Francesco Careri in Argentina: Walk, Pause, Host/Oneself (2024)
-Collective Archive of Tolosa: thesis defense and performative exhibition at the Tolosa warehouses, with more than 50 participating artists and 250 attendees.
-Hosted the talk series (re!)pair, a three-month cycle reflecting on urban life with local and international guests. Topics: walks, care in cities, philosophy, heritage and gender, performances, the body in public space, feminist urbanism, neighborhood transformation, urban activism, self-management, and collective mapping. Videos available on our YouTube channel. (2020)
-Maps of Philosophy (2019): philosophical and performative walks in different neighborhoods of La Plata with a drummer, dancer, two architects, and a philosopher.
-Authored the Manifesto: (re!)pair in 2017, read aloud at each event.
-Invited to lead walks in various cities (2018)
-Awarded the National Fund for the Arts Architecture Creation Grant, marking the project’s origin (2016).
All activities are free and self-managed.
Difficulties
Sustaining collective, unpaid, self-managed workspaces amidst deep inequality and ongoing crises.
Future Challenges
The project closed a chapter in 2023 and is now interwoven with other initiatives. Future steps are emerging and being redefined project by project. The most recent was the residency Inhabiting Our Wilderness (2025), which generated an exhibition and a future publication currently in progress.
