Lorena Bello-Gómez
Lorena Bello-Gómez is a Design Critic in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Through international grants, she works with local foundations and NGOs in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to connect design expertise and political will to positively impact regenerative change and climatic adaptation. She has received support from diverse foundations around the world and engaged in workshops with different universities and/or governments. Out of these collaborations, publications include: Beyond Reconstruction, City in Transition, and Disaster Resilient Housing. Bello’s work has been exhibited at the 2018 Venice Biennale and at MIT’s Media Lab. Her design research focuses on the territorial implications of infrastructure as catalysts for design. She started examining this topic in her dissertation “Hybrid Networks”—with the guidance of Joan Busquets and the late Manuel de Solá-Morales—to portray the slow geography of the European “camino network” toward the Romans’ World End in Finisterrae. Caminos are resilient and millenary cultural itineraries that combine continuous upgrades and recalibration to fuse history, art, religion’s geopolitics, territorial urban design, and landscape to create a public and open platform regardless of race, class, or religion. Since then, Lorena has applied some of these lessons when working with environmentally vulnerable communities engulfed in climatic risks in India, Colombia, Armenia, and Mexico.
