The everydayness of cultural flagships

This research is part of an SNSF project entitled “Cultural flagships: pathways, practices, and politics of a global urban type” at the University of Lausanne. Find out more about this comparative project here.

As a postdoctoral researcher on this project (2023-24), I expanded my research on urban materialities, everyday life, and the formation of urban subjectivities to engage with global urbanism. I examined how iconic global buildings, such as cultural flagships, are shaped by bodily politics. Using feminist participatory and collaborative visual research methodologies, I explored the intimate roles and functions of a cultural flagship in Santiago de Chile. I argue for rethinking cultural flagships as everyday spaces of political life against past and present forms of urban violence, as sites from which to rethink people’s agency, embodied spatialities, and struggles.