Mónica Carriço

Mónica Carriço [Lisbon, 1978] is an architect-urbanist, researcher, and – together with Bert de Muynck – co-director of MovingCities. She holds a master’s degree in Architecture Urban & Territorial Planning from Lisbon’s Technical University [FAUTL] and is a member of the Portuguese Architects’ Guild [OA - Ordem dos Arquitectos]. From 2002 until 2006, Mónica practiced architecture in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) with One Architecture and SeARCH architects. In September 2006 she moved to Beijing (China) to collaborate with People’s Architecture, a non-profit cultural and educational organization based in New York. From May-July 2007 she was, along with Ned Rossiter and Bert de Muynck, coordinator of the ‘Transdisciplinary Research on Creative Industries in Beijing – Mobile Research Laboratory’ | orgnets.org. Currently, based in Shanghai, she is developing architectural and urban research, project management, visual communication design (site design & production) and cultural consultancy within movingcities.org.

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spatial agency:
Established in 2007 by Bert de Muynck and Mónica Carriço, movingcities is a think tank based in Beijing Shanghai whose work focuses on how the practices of architecture and urbanism affect the city.

Their name is a reaction to the influential 'Shrinking Cities' project, which they critiqued for an over emphasis on just one part of a larger phenomenon. In contrast they see contemporary urbanity as being in constant flux and speak of city-regions that incorporate shrinking and expanding, rural and urban.

Their work takes the form of projects, writings and collaborations as well as interviews. (...)

Their projects take the form of embedded research on the city, usually carried out in collaboration with other architects."

creative cities:
Mov­ing­Cit­ies is an inde­pend­ent research organ­iz­a­tion based in China

archiblog:
MovingCities is a blog investigating the role that architecture and urbanism play in shaping the contemporary city. MovingCities features urban research, critical architectural investigations and publications. MovingCities operates from Beijing Shanghai, China.

snowball architecture:
Bert de Muynck is the other half of MovingCities, a Shanghai based duo of “shrinks in the urban debate” as him and his partner Mónica Carriço like to describe their practice. MovingCities are also the curators of Snowball Shanghai – Event on Finnish Architecture to be organised in Shanghai this March.