Thinking of memory of Ecuadorian Architecture, Design, and Arts: the case LIPADA – PUCE

Abstract

LIPADA is a laboratory/archive, which seeks dialogue, study, and materials dissemination that contribute to Ecuadorian memory establishment, of twentieth century Architecture, Design, and Arts. It is formed with private archives that have been donated to Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, for this project. This article concentrates in LIPADA’s disposition in connection to its description both as a laboratory and an archive, and the ways in which it is recorded on archives debate, considering a series of aspects, and depicting research within Architecture, Design, and Arts. Finally, some referential examples to think about the project, documenting procedures, digitalization, and the relation between archive and university.

Keywords: Archive, arts, architecture, design, memory, heritage, project, laboratory.