LUIS GUERRA

Artistic Research and Philosophy - Investigación Artística y Filosofía
REPARATORY ART AND DESIGN PRACTICES
Research Project RYC2023-042721-I
funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ESF+.

Canto, Poble-Sec, Barcelona, 2013.
Previous publications of the research
The current global crises— climate collapse, forced migration, and structural injustices —manifest deep systemic failures in our relational networks with our environments and with one another. Transforming these relationships is, therefore, essential. But how can we transform them without first acknowledging existing wounds and the need for reparations? Through their practices, artists and designers worldwide are confronting diverse forms of harm. They seek solutions and create reparations that respond to and challenge disciplinary and institutional responses, enabling new forms of social learning, thinking, and care. My project aims to reflect on and explore, through a practice-based research methodology, fieldwork, and experimental co-creative labs, how these practices are crafting transformative bottom-up justice and collective memory mechanisms where legal and financial systems have failed. Grounded in memory studies, transitional justice philosophy, decolonial and Indigenous aesthetics, participatory Design, and artistic thinking, in collaboration with artists, designers, formal and informal cultural institutions and communities, this research envisions to build a new co-creative research field filling the existent voids and gaps of knowledge in the international cultural field regarding participatory repair, memory and creative justice mechanisms addressing current diverse and complex legacies of violence, displacement, and erasure.
New publications
Call for Papers
9th FISOPOL SYMPOSIUM
REPARATORY PRACTICES
Coexistence, Knowledge and Justice in Contexts
of Persistent Harm
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Dates: 27-28 May 2027
Organised by: Social and Political Philosophy Research Group (FISOPOL), Institute of Philosophy (IFS-CSIC), Centre for Human and Social Sciences (CCHS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Convenors: Luis Guerra Miranda (IFS) – Álvaro Morcillo Laiz (IFS)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10 November 2026
Proposals should be sent to fisopol@gmail.com

