Active Projects 2025–2027
Approved in the 10th Call for Proposals.
Art, Women, Memory, and Public Space in Latin America
- Code: VPIA-2025-01-PI
- Director: Marcos Natalia Carolina
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators: López Jaramillo María Fernanda, Icaza Guevara María José
- Research Line: Art, Gender, Feminisms, and Sexual and Gender Diversity
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To establish a traveling platform for the analysis, dissemination, and circulation of the creative output of women who pursue their artistic and activist work from a critical thinking perspective, and who intervene in Latin American public space, contributing to the various processes of (re)constructing collective memory in local, national, and regional contexts.
Arts, Culture, and Politics in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Modes of Production
- Code: VPIA-2025-02-PI
- Director: Cardoso Teran Pablo Andres
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators:Icaza Guevara María José, Herrera Ríos William Aníbal, Suárez Pinzón Janina Fernanda
- Research Line: Cultural Policy, Creativity, and Arts Management
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To examine the impact and reach of Ecuadorian cultural policies on modes of production and on conditions of access to the arts and culture in Ecuador and Latin America.
UArtes Film Archive: Archive and Memory
- Code: VPIA-2025-03-PI
- Director: Arcos Soto Abel
- Unit: Film
- Co-Investigators: Cadena Espinel Arsenio Eduardo, Barba Ramirez Aldo Mauricio, Andrade Morales Javier Andrés, Pérez Rodon Libia, Tome Julie Michele, Sarmiento Torres Manuel Eduardo, Mieles Peña Fernando Xavier, Vargas Hidalgo Pablo Fernando
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To establish a film archive at the University of the Arts that ensures the design and implementation of regulatory and technical frameworks for the storage, preservation, cataloging, and public dissemination of audiovisual works and documents produced in the UArtes Film degree program, as well as future projects and audiovisual collections from Guayaquil that are at risk of disappearing or deteriorating. The project also seeks to promote the production of audiovisual works by project members using personal archives, family archives, archives of social relevance, or found footage.
Collection of Ecuadorian Screenplays "First Draft"
- Code: VPIA-2025-04-PI
- Director: Mieles Peña Fernando Xavier
- Unit: Film
- Co-Investigators: González Gutiérrez Leslie Daniela, González Castro Nadia Aracelly, Carrasco Escobar María Isabel
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To contribute to the dissemination of the study of creative work through an analysis of the creative process of screenwriting.
Composition of Graded-Difficulty Musical Works Using 20th-Century Techniques for UArtes Ensembles and Ecuadorian Groups: Editing, Publication, and Recording
- Code: VPIA-2025-05-PI
- Director: Izarra De Riera Adina Margarita
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Riera Esteban Rubén Julio, Astaiza Vallejo Andrey Mijail
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To create graded-difficulty musical works using 20th-century techniques for UArtes ensembles and Ecuadorian groups, and to combine them with electronic elements.
Worldviews of a Contemporary Subject: Speculations from Abstraction
- Code: VPIA-2025-06-PI
- Director: Alvarado García Daniel Javier
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop a body of abstract artworks that recover, for the contemporary moment, the symbolic potential of the Western cultural tradition linked to the concept of schematism, with a view to the speculative formulation of new worldviews concerning the subject and its sensory relationship with present-day society
Acoustic and Audiovisual Musical Creation Based on Programming Algorithms
- Code: VPIA-2025-07-PI
- Director: Riera Esteban Rubén Julio
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Izarra De Riera Adina Margarita, Cheung Ruíz Meining Marcela, Yanez Moncayo Ana Gabriela
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop an interdisciplinary approach that integrates Musicology and Recording Aesthetics, with an emphasis on sound poetics and interculturality, in order to strengthen the core functions of the University of the Arts and generate a significant academic and cultural impact.
On Musicology and Music Production
- Code: VPIA-2025-08-PI
- Director: Pérez Valero Luis Ramon
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Cheung Ruíz Meining Marcela, Segovia González Pedro Alberto, De Los Reyes López Barri David Buenaventura, Cárdenas Van Wien Santiago
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop an interdisciplinary approach that integrates Musicology and Recording Aesthetics, with an emphasis on sound poetics and interculturality, in order to strengthen the core functions of the University of the Arts and generate a significant academic and cultural impact.
Dissemination, Sound Production, and Community Resonances
- Code: VPIA-2025-09-PI
- Director: Villafuerte Peña Jenny María
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Jerez Chacon Ivonne Berenice, Cepeda Andrade Jose Antonio, Cárdenas Van Wien Santiago, Ubidia Calisto Bernarda
- Research Line: Art, Citizenship, and Public Space
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To promote the visibility, outreach, and dissemination of artistic and methodological products derived from interdisciplinary research and creation processes, strengthening the connection between artistic production and academic, professional, and social communities in order to generate a significant cultural impact and contribute to social change through art and research.
Economy, Art, and Technology: Gold and Data as Symbolic Instruments of Power
- Code: VPIA-2025-10-PI
- Director: Vallejos Palacios Fredy Oswaldo
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Barberán Cevallos José David, Buitrón Merlo Darío José, Ramirez Quichimbo Luis Alberto, De La Vera Villacis Coraima Analy, Santi Leon Rafael Eduardo, Cardoso Teran Pablo Andres, Albán Campaña María Grecia, Carrillo Rosero Ana María
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To analyze the relationships between mining extractivism and data extractivism (digital mining) as forms of (post)colonialism and capital accumulation, through the composition and performance of an interdisciplinary artistic work, as well as the writing of formal and informal texts that document the research/creation process.
ECRO in Action / Phase 03: Expanded ECRO
- Code: VPIA-2025-11-PI
- Director: Torres Leyva Julio Ruslán
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To propose an "expanded" idea of the Conceptual, Referential, and Operational Scheme (ECRO) that allows for the approach, understanding, and symbolic production of contemporary artistic creation processes, and that adapts to a critical and sensitive vision of art pedagogy and its needs in the current context.
The Set of Possible Things
- Code: VPIA-2025-12-PI
- Director: Brito Lorenzo Saidel
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop bodies of work that explore and reflect on the possibilities of the visual arts through individual and social memories that incorporate the concepts of Atlas, Chaos, and Chance.
The Right to Equitable Remuneration for the Author of an Audiovisual Work
- Code: VPIA-2025-13-PI
- Director: Sarmiento Torres Manuel Eduardo
- Unit: Film
- Research Line: Cultural Policy, Creativity, and Arts Management
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To advance the recognition and effective implementation of the right to equitable remuneration for authors of audiovisual works in Ecuador through informed academic debate, the publication of specialized materials, and the development of concrete legal reform proposals that promote a fair distribution of revenue in the audiovisual sector.
Listening to and Recording Everyday Echoes: Stories That Transcend
- Code: VPIA-2025-14-PI
- Director: Andrade Briones José Antonio
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Co-Investigators: Quezada Aguayo Silvia Gabriela
- Research Line: Art, Citizenship, and Public Space
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop a feature-length film composed of short documentaries that highlight significant individuals within diverse communities, integrating research, technical learning, and community engagement, and bringing together the University's three core functions: teaching, research, and community engagement.
Record Production Exploration in Educational Processes
- Code: VPIA-2025-15-PI
- Director: Cepeda Andrade José Antonio
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Vance Mafla Joanne Patricia, Villarreal Montenegro David Andrés, Ubidia Calisto Bernarda
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To rethink teaching and learning processes in music production by integrating artistic practice and teaching from a critical and decolonial perspective, fostering experiential, collaborative, and contextually situated learning experiences that promote creativity, expressive uniqueness, and feedback among theory, methodology, and practice, in order to contribute to the training of professionals capable of responding ethically, critically, and innovatively to the challenges of the globalized music industry and the local cultural context.
Political Geometry: Affectivity
- Code: VPIA-2025-16-PI
- Director: Busquets Carballo Armando Agustín
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Co-Investigators: Patiño Balda Jorge Antonio Xavier, Torres Leyva Julio Ruslán
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To examine how geometric abstraction, through the expression of affectivity, takes shape as a form of resistance to power structures and hegemonic narratives, challenging the traditional notion of geometry as a cold, rational, and socially disengaged language.
"Immortality for All: An Awareness Campaign on Transcendence Through Art"
- Code: VPIA-2025-17-PI
- Director: Uttermann Cevallos David Federico
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Co-Investigators: Hernández Silva William, Brito Lorenzo Saidel, Busquets Carballo Armando Agustín, Aycart Larrea Jorge Alfredo, Benavides Solá Juan Francisco, Castillo Vera Ilich Bladimir
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To explore the relationship among art, memory, and technology in order to question and redefine human mortality, using digital tools and artistic methodologies that make it possible to preserve and transform personal and collective archives, fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue on transcendence, identity, and the impact of transhumanism on contemporary art.
Laboratory for the Creation, Development, and Writing of Screenplays
- Code: VPIA-2025-18-PI
- Director: Tome Julie Michele
- Unit: Film
- Co-Investigators: Izquierdo Salvador Javier Emilio, Andrade Morales Javier Andrés, Arcos Soto Abel, González Gutiérrez Leslie Daniela
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To foster innovation in film narrative through a space for experimentation and open collaboration among faculty, artists, and students, focused on developing several screenplays written by faculty and students of UArtes and other institutions.
Criticism as Writing
- Code: VPIA-2025-19-PI
- Director: Montenegro Sandoval Mario Fernando
- Unit: Literature
- Co-Investigators: Pérez Rodon Libia, Izquierdo Salvador Javier Emilio, Álvarez Pomares María Guadalupe, Díaz Martínez Bertha Del Rocio
- Research Line: History, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To build and inhabit an experimental, reflective, and interdisciplinary space for the practice of art criticism through a digital and print platform whose outputs encourage reflection on the state of this field in Ecuador, both from practice and from theoretical reflection.
Musical Writing as Pharmakon: Modeling and Automation of Latin American Oral-Tradition Music
- Code: VPIA-2025-20-PI
- Director: Larrea Peralta Manuel Alejandro
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Co-Investigators: Vallejos Palacios Fredy Oswaldo, Moreno Guerron Luis Carlos, Ocampo Cardona Javier Andres, Astaiza Vallejo Andrey Mijail, Albán Jaramillo Carlos Andrés
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To revive the aural learning and practice of the unwritten musical traditions of our territories for teaching in the contemporary musical environment.
Malecón Bajo: Narratives of Alienation and Urban Redemption in Contemporary Latin American Cinema
- Code: VPIA-2025-21-PI
- Director: Flores Velasco Jorge Antonio
- Unit: Film
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop and structure a screenplay that explores themes of alienation, identity, and redemption in an urban context
Narratives in Contemporary Art: Museography, Arts, and Technologies
- Code: VPIA-2025-22-PI
- Director: Fabre Vásquez María Gabriela
- Unit: School of Visual Arts
- Co-Investigators: Villavicencio Ruiz Cristian Alberto, Cruz Mendoza Ruth Laura
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To expand the notion of exhibition design through artistic processes that identify the historical and contemporary codes of art staging and subvert them in a situated and creative manner, so as to produce artistic practices that can circulate in relevant contemporary art spaces.
Multi-Sited Narratives and Curatorial Practices Across the Andes, the Amazon, and the Tropics
- Code: VPIA-2025-23-PI
- Director: López Jaramillo María Fernanda
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators: Fajardo Yépez María Graciela, Barberán Cevallos José David, Madroñero Morillo Mario Marino
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary relationships for arts research at the interinstitutional level through multi-sited curation across the Andes, the Amazon, and the Tropics, in order to develop narratives, theories, and research-creation methods that strengthen training processes and curatorial management in intercultural and transcultural artistic contexts.
Expanded Realities: New Dimensions of Art and Technology
- Code: VPIA-2025-24-PI
- Director: Lambert Sarango Yamil Edinson
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Research Line: Arts, Digital Media, and Technological Languages
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To explore the impact of artificial intelligence on contemporary artistic creation, analyzing its implications for authorship, creativity, and authenticity. The project seeks to foster a critical understanding of the new dynamics between art and technology, engaging both academic and non-academic audiences. Through a multidisciplinary approach, it aims to raise public awareness of technological advances in art, promoting an inclusive reflection on the future of human creativity and the role of AI in cultural production.
S.e.r. Dreaming in Network (Dream We Must!)
- Code: VPIA-2025-25-PI
- Director: Rivadeneira Crespo Ana Gabriela
- Unit: Film
- Co-Investigators: Gavilanes Rivadeneira María Del Pilar, Cruz Mendoza Ruth Laura, Cagigal Guayasamín Pedro José, Briones Layana María Paulina, Ripalda Zenck Juan José
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To reassess the function of dreams in preserving life's capacity for innovation and in solving situated problems. This situated, contributory, and networked artistic, theoretical, and pedagogical research, nourished by interactions among diverse technical, artistic, and scientific knowledge, will seek to demonstrate the hypothesis that dream time is the time of creation, that is, the time of generating situated sensitive knowledge that serves as a real alternative to the homogenization of technologies, languages, practices, forms, and systems of thought to which globalization and the world market lead us.
Takiksapa: "Multi-Instrumentalism and Interdisciplinarity"
- Code: VPIA-2025-26-PI
- Director: Moreno Guerron Luis Carlos
- Unit: School of Sound Arts
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Individual
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To create spaces for research, learning, and community engagement through the teaching of multi-instrumentalism as a form of interdisciplinarity among students at the University of the Arts.
Life Trajectories: Valuing the Life Stories and Organizing Efforts of Women in Guayaquil
- Code: VPIA-2025-27-PI
- Director: Briceño Linares Ybelice
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators: Villarreal Freire Pamela Alejandra, Pico Salguero Nora Amaranta
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To promote the construction of collective memory regarding the struggles and social organizing of women in Guayaquil over the past four decades, through academic outputs and artistic devices.
Trompo: Reading Mediation for Children
- Code: VPIA-2025-28-PI
- Director: Zambrano Murillo Maria Alejandra
- Unit: Literature
- Co-Investigators: Cortés Tapia Benjamin, González Castro Nadia Aracelly, Alvarado Montalvo Cristian Agustin
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To analyze, problematize, and challenge colonial notions present in contemporary Ecuadorian children's and young adult literature (2010–2025) through: a) formative research processes that activate relational thinking and pluriversality; b) relevant, contextualized academic production in co-authorship; c) creative work for child audiences in narrative, performing, and audiovisual arts; and d) literary mediation projects in the field, with the aim of generating alternative and sensitive perspectives that take into account the country's sociocultural and political context, as well as the knowledge and feelings of historically excluded, criminalized, and racialized children.
Voices of CEAT: Critical Cartographies of the Arts
- Code: VPIA-2025-29-PI
- Director: Loreto Amoretti Marelis De Las Nieves
- Unit: Leveling Course
- Co-Investigators: Parra Riera Arturo Mitchel, Orejuela Flores Daniel Fernando
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To articulate academic writing as a creative and critical practice that engages and intertwines with the dynamics of music production and sound arts, generating a conceptual and methodological framework that makes these disciplines visible as legitimate sources of knowledge in the academic sphere.
Projects Active Through 2026
Approved in the 2023 and 2024 calls for proposals.
The Right to Read in Ecuador: An Approach from the Independent Publishing Sector
- Code: VPIA-2023-06-PI
- Director: Corral Escudero Ana Camila
- Unit: Literature
- Co-Investigators: Montenegro Sandoval Mario Fernando, Zambrano Alvarado Jessica Thalia, Ibarra Rojas Mariam
- Research Line: ART, ECONOMY, CIRCUITS, AND COMMUNITIES
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To problematize independent publishing and reading practices in order to understand their importance for the circulation of knowledge, social transformation, and the development of critical thinking in Ecuador, with particular emphasis on the processes surrounding Libre Libro, UArtes' Independent Publishers Meeting and Publications Fair.
Blank Page: Literary Research/Creation Laboratory
- Code: VPIA-2023-13-PI
- Director: Landázuri Suárez Carlos Andrés
- Unit: Literature
- Co-Investigators: Alvarado Montalvo Cristian Agustin, Velasco Andrade María Cecilia, Ramirez Paredes Roberto Marcos, España Muñoz Siomara Benedicta, Briones Layana María Paulina, Jiménez Gaona Ángel Darío, Rodríguez Pappe Solange Pamela, Cino Alvear Maritza Marieta
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: Strengthen the capacity of UArtes' School of Literature to organize and execute research and creative projects. The aim is to promote the recovery, study, interpretation, critical reading, and dissemination of Ecuadorian literary production from a broad and diverse perspective.
Teaching Approaches Rooted in Artistic Thinking: Exploring Creative Pedagogies Through Arts-Based Training Processes with Communities
- Code: VPIA-2024-01-PI
- Director: Mujica Paredes Pedro José
- Unit: Literature
- Co-Investigators: Rocha Espinoza Juan Jose, Sánchez Quinchuela Carlos Patricio, Mogrovejo Rosero Jenny Monserratt, Tigrero Vaca Jorge William, Suárez Pinzón Janina Fernanda
- Research Line: Critical and Creative Pedagogies Through the Arts
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To develop the contributions of playful pedagogical proposals based on training processes from and with the arts, using a disruptive and experiential educational approach grounded in community experience.
Dislocar: Transductions for Accessibility in Artistic Creation
- Code: VPIA-2024-02-PI
- Director: Mera Espinoza Sofia Guadalupe
- Unit: School of Performing Arts
- Co-Investigators: Ricaurte Bumachar Giovanna De Fatima, Ripalda Zenck Juan José, Aguirre Martínez Pricila María
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: To develop transdisciplinary creation processes by exploring methodologies for sensory transduction among image, sound, and movement, with the aim of producing creative work that is accessible to people with and without hearing, visual, and motor disabilities.
Atlas: Film Creation and Research Laboratory
- Code: VPIA-2023-01-PI
- Director: Falconí Averhoff Diego Alonso
- Unit: Film
- Co-Investigators: Aguirre Martínez Pricila María, Morales Bres Raymi Nicolas, Herrera Moreno Alicia Maria, Mejía Molina Tamara Vanessa
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: Establish a networked laboratory for cinematic creation and academic research that fosters experimentation with counter-hegemonic and innovative practices. This initiative aims to generate filmic forms and theoretical texts that challenge and deconstruct the narrative and aesthetic conventions of industrial cinema.
Pilot Creation: Dialogues and Poetics for Creation
- Code: VPIA-2023-05-PI
- Director: Cajiao Oviedo Luis Miguel
- Unit: School of Performing Arts
- Co-Investigators: Aranda García María Del Pilar, Santana Alarcón Oscar Alberto, Vásconez Barragán Remigio Miguel. Delgado Espinoza Sandra Lorena, Masabanda Poaquiza Christian Omar, Pérez Valencia Vanessa Cristina
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: Identify methodologies embedded in creative processes by engaging in continuous interdisciplinary dialogue, periodic feedback, study, and reflection through exploratory laboratories. This initiative seeks to generate and stir the perception of potential poetic universes.
Cities Meeting Through the Arts
- Code: VPIA-2023-07-PI
- Director: López Betancur Olga Del Pilar
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators: Arboleda Jiménez Ángela Idalia, Villavicencio Ruiz Cristian Alberto, Fabre Vásquez María Gabriela
- Research Line: Experimental Artistic Practices
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: Investigate the impact of urban dynamics on artistic practices and how these poetics are shaped by situated knowledge.
Visual and Textual Narratives in the Newspapers El Comercio, El Telégrafo, and El Universo (1990–2022) on the Subaltern Subject in the Treatment of National Issues of Social Impact
- Code: VPIA-2023-19-PI
- Director: Pérez García Yulianela
- Unit: Transversal Department
- Co-Investigators: Tamayo Cruz Natalia Yolanda, Fajardo Yépez María Graciela
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To deconstruct the visual and discursive representations of subaltern subjects published by the newspapers El Comercio, El Telégrafo, and El Universo (1990-2022) in their coverage of issues with significant social impact.
Mnemofictions: Speculations on the Indigenous Theatrical Memory of Our Territories
- Code: VPIA-2023-20-PI
- Director: Ortiz Yepez María Dolores
- Unit: School of Performing Arts
- Co-Investigators: Paez Quevedo Anibal Ernesto, Vásconez Barragán Remigio Miguel
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Unfunded
- General Objective: To collectively, physically, and playfully reimagine theatrical memory with audiences by utilizing fiction to create narrative segments that establish connections between contemporary theatrical practices and identifiable theatrical elements found in pre-Hispanic vestiges or historical chronicles through a performative lecture.
Putting the Body on the Line: Art, Activism, and Social Struggle in Guayaquil, 1918–1923
- Code: VPIA-2023-23-PI
- Director: Pepper Cevallos Carolina Alexandra
- Unit: School of Performing Arts
- Co-Investigators: Tamayo Cruz Natalia Yolanda, Riera Esteban Rubén Julio, Febres Cordero Carlo Gloria Rebeca, Febres Cordero Carlo Aglae Josefin, Sánchez Moreta Aracelly Joselyn
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funded/Unfunded: Funded
- General Objective: Highlight women's participation in social struggles through art and literature by examining the actions and publications of the organizations La Aurora and Rosa Luxemburg during the period 1918-1923.
Projects Active in 2025
Externally Funded Project
Socio-Cultural Innovation and Politics of Care: Building and Disseminating Sensory Ethnographies Based on Creative Practice About Diverse Motherhoods in Southern Ecuador
- Code: VPIA-2025-30-PI
- Miembro UArtes: Luis Páez Von Lippke
- Co-Investigators: Liena Corral Maldonado, Ma. Teresa Galarza Neira, Ricardo Salcedo Martinez, Patricio Carpio Padilla, Paola Vázquez Neira
- Research Line: Art, Representation, Memory, and Heritage
- Collective/Individual: Collective
- Funding: External Funds
- General Objective: To document, help make visible, and highlight the value of maternal care practices among women of diverse ethnic backgrounds living in Ecuador's southern highlands (Austro) and in the city of Guayaquil, through the creation of a digital repository and environment composed of images, sounds, texts, and textile art objects, serving as a community space for interaction where mothers from diverse backgrounds can share care practices and experiences.