Daniela Ortiz dos Santos - global dis:connect

the centre
- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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research
- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
  Our research is structured around six key areas – absences, detours, interruptions, laboratories, cultural infrastructures and temporalities – which foster interdisciplinary dialogue without normative assumptions or claims of completeness.
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fellows
- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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events
- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
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outreach
- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
- outreach
  - gd:c blog
  - static
  - podcast
- global dis:connect publishes innovative interventions on dis:connectivity across a range of media, from the blog, which covers the latest news, research and art at gd:c, to static, a periodical containing the best work from within and beyond global dis:connect, in addition to traditional scholarly formats.
- publications
  - aperiodic open-access publications

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Daniela Ortiz dos Santos

Daniela is an assistant professor of architectural history at the Goethe University Frankfurt and scientific coordinator of the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA). Her research, teaching and curatorial activities are committed to collaborative approaches on transatlantic studies of the built and imagined environments, exploring how their historiography has intersected with displacement. Daniela studied architecture in Buenos Aires (UBA) and Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from ETH Zurich.

UNESCO making cultures. Atlantic diaspora, diplomacy and design history in dispute

The project explores how international organisations have shaped value-systems and views of the built culture. It works across transatlantic migration and architectural heritage as soft power. UNESCO serves as a point of departure to reveal the practices, documents and events that have shaped an understanding of the ‘other’ cultures in the Cold War era. While unearthing the agency’s visual material and narrations related to an Atlantic Global South building culture, this project demonstrates that these narrations, rooted in colonial history, resonate still.

Have a look at Daniela’s research poster about her project.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Daniela and HERE for a list of her publications.