La facultad de Arquitectura y Diseño de la Universidad Católica de La Plata (FAD-UCALP) realizó la 1.ª Jornada de Intercambio Académico y Profesional – Asia y Medio Oriente, en el marco de la Semana del Diseño 2026. La actividad, de carácter inaugural, constituyó la fase piloto de FAD International, una iniciativa orientada a consolidar la proyección internacional de la unidad académica, bajo la órbita de su Coordinación de Extensión.
El ciclo se desarrolló en tres encuentros sincrónicos por Zoom, con expositores de India, Finlandia y México vinculados a la Academia de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Shanghái. La convocatoria de especialistas extranjeros, articulada a partir de redes académicas con el ámbito sinoparlante, permitió situar en un mismo espacio de conversación perspectivas del arte y el diseño procedentes de contextos geoculturales diversos, poco frecuentes en la agenda formativa local.
La dirección y el diseño del ciclo, estuvieron a cargo de la Coordinadora de Extensión, Arq. Claudia Vecere, y de la Dra. Flavia Luck, docente de la FAD-UCALP, doctora por la Academy of Art de la Universidad de Shanghái. La articulación técnica, a cargo de la Secretaría administrativa de la FAD.
La jornada inaugural contó con la exposición de Gupta Shatrudhan (@shatrudhan.gupta), artista e investigador multidisciplinario que vive y trabaja entre India y China. La moderación estuvo a cargo de Mariana Guerrero, sinóloga y editora de la revista Amigos Uruguay China (@amigosuruguaychina).
1.ª Jornada de Intercambio Académico y Profesional – Asia y Medio Oriente (1)
La segunda sesión estuvo a cargo de Anna-Maija Rissanen www.annamaija-rissanen.com), artista visual, pintora y educadora artística de nacionalidad finlandesa y belga, doctoranda en la Academia de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Shanghái y Magíster en Bellas Artes (MFA) por la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Bruselas. La moderación correspondió a Cristina Ghetti (@cristinaghetti.visualartist), artista visual argentina radicada en España.
La jornada de cierre contó con la exposición de Pilar Mejía Buenfil (México), candidata a Doctora en Teoría del Arte por la Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts de la Universidad de Shanghái. La moderación estuvo a cargo de Milena de Moura Barba (@miluspanda), doctoranda en la Universidad de São Paulo.
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First Academic and Professional Exchange Symposium – Asia and the Middle East: Internationalisation and the Convening of Foreign Specialists at FAD-UCALP (La Plata, 28–30 September 2026)
From 28 to 30 September 2026, the Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Universidad Católica de La Plata (FAD-UCALP) hosted the First Academic and Professional Exchange Symposium – Asia and the Middle East, as part of Design Week 2026. Conceived as an inaugural event, the symposium constituted the pilot phase of FAD International, an initiative aimed at consolidating the international outreach of the academic unit, under the aegis of its Extension Secretariat.
The programme unfolded across three synchronous sessions held via Zoom, with speakers from India, Finland and Mexico affiliated with the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts at Shanghai University. Convening foreign specialists through academic networks connected to the Sinophone sphere made it possible to bring together, in a single space of conversation, perspectives on art and design drawn from diverse geocultural contexts that are seldom represented in the local educational agenda. The direction and design of the cycle were led by the Extension Coordination Office, under Arch. Claudia Vecere, and by Dr. Flavia Luck, faculty member at FAD-UCALP and holder of a doctorate from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. Technical coordination was provided by the FAD Secretariat.
The inaugural session featured Gupta Shatrudhan (@shatrudhan.gupta), a multidisciplinary artist and researcher who lives and works between India and China. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts and his master’s degree in Visual Arts at the College of Arts and Crafts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lucknow (India), and is currently a doctoral candidate in Fine Arts at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. The session was moderated by Mariana Guerrero, a sinologist and editor of the journal Amigos Uruguay China (@amigosuruguaychina).
The second session was delivered by Anna-Maija Rissanen (www.annamaija-rissanen.com), a Finnish-Belgian visual artist, painter and art educator, doctoral candidate at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University, and holder of a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels. Her artistic practice explores transitions and transformations across time and space through mental landscapes composed of the elements of mountain and water, in dialogue between Chinese and Nordic visual traditions. Moderation was undertaken by Cristina Ghetti (@cristinaghetti.visualartist), an Argentine visual artist based in Spain.
The closing session featured Pilar Mejía Buenfil (Mexico), PhD candidate in Art Theory at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai University. At the same university she completed a master’s degree in Global History, specialising in Chinese Studies, at the College of Liberal Arts (2017–2020); she also holds a bachelor’s degree in Design and Visual Communication from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM. Her doctoral research examines the construction of national identities through the image and is developed in dialogue with academic interlocutors and archives in Mexico and China. The session was moderated by Milena de Moura Barba (@miluspanda), a doctoral student at the University of São Paulo, who undertook an academic exchange at Xi’an International Studies University during her undergraduate studies and completed a master’s degree in Film Directing at the Beijing Film Academy.
From the standpoint of internationalisation, the initiative is significant for three reasons. First, it tests a model of virtual mobility that lowers the economic and logistical barriers of in-person exchange. Second, the composition of the panels, with speakers from India, Finland–Belgium and Mexico and moderators linked to Uruguay, Argentina–Spain and Brazil, reveals the networked character of cooperation between Asia and Latin America, which circulates through shared educational trajectories rather than through bilateral channels. Third, the linguistic and cultural mediation undertaken from within the host academic unit proves to be a condition of possibility for transnational dialogue. With this first edition, FAD-UCALP sets a precedent for a sustained policy of internationalisation grounded in academic cooperation and horizontal knowledge exchange.
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