104:. Prior to attending college, Duran Calisto desired to pursue a bachelor's degree in architecture; however, there was only one available program in Quito at the time, in a public university where attendance was being affected by political instability. Duran Calisto decided to join USFQ, a new private school at the time, which introduced a flexible credit system and curricular flexibility. After completing two years in the Applied Sciences program, she sought the opportunity to create her own degree plan to study liberal arts. Carlos Montufar, vice-chancellor and co-founder of the university, supported her initiative. She presented her proposal to her university's Academic Advisory Committee for approval. In 1995, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the School of Liberal Arts at the
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studios and in the face of IIRSA/COSIPLAN, she organized an expedition along the Napo and Amazon rivers in the year 2008, concerned with the impact that integration infrastructures, particularly highways, would have on the basin. The journey from Quito to Belem do Para was a life-changing experience. Floating along the river, she conceived the idea of weaving an open and collaborative research network of South
American scholars and interested partners abroad. Due to the complexity of the Amazonia, in 2015, Duran Calisto decided to pursue a doctoral degree from the Urban Planning program in the
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city in its territorial dimension as intertwined forest, chakra (polyculture or agro-ecology), and settlement. The collective would also support urban and peri-urban indigenous communes pursuing forest remediation and sustainable forest-based economies. If successful, these projects would demonstrate -as they are doing elsewhere and have done in the past- that economic development and sustainability can coexist, and that there are alternatives to export-driven resource extraction (fossil-fuels, minerals, mono-cultures) with its concomitant negative environmental and social
150:, Duran Calisto is investigating the history of urbanization in Amazonia and the persistence of the indigenous commune amidst extractive pressures. Duran Calisto has also achieved an Urban Humanities Initiative Certificate and a Certificate in Global Public Affairs during her time at the University of California at Los Angeles. As of 2020, Duran Calisto serves as a visiting faculty at
260:"Diálogos Impostergables," and the Oslo Architecture Triennial "Overgrowth." The team has won national and international competitions, and some of its projects have received awards within and beyond Ecuador. Duran Calisto has been juror in international curated awards like the Premio Rogelio Salmona and a member of the scientific committee in conferences such as the
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Her articles and essays have been published in several magazines (Harvard Design
Magazine, E-Flux Architecture, Arquine, Rita, Revista TRAMA, Revista Clave, 30 60 Cuaderno Latinoamericano de Arquitectura, CITE magazine, Revista RADAR, Revista PLOT, Ness Magazine, GAM, Aula Magazine, Arch Daily, Deco
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During her PhD studies and research, Duran
Calisto has proposed the creation of an Urban Amazonia Collective (UAC) in Quito, Ecuador. The main goal of the collective would be to engage and support Amazonian municipalities in the planning of urban ecologies that -like in ancestral times- conceive the
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Amazonian and Andean regions taught by professors like Norman E. Whitten Jr. Before returning to Ecuador, Duran Calisto was awarded the "Best International Student Award" granted by the University of Illinois to the international student
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Executive Secretary and curator for the XV Quito Architecture Biennial: Visible Cities. In 2015, she was hired by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Urban Development and Housing as academic advisor on the development of national contents for the UN Conference Habitat III
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America Project, in close collaboration with professor Felipe Correa. Her research was initially inspired after Duran Calisto visited the city of Manaus in the 80s. Ever since, she became interested in urban Amazonia. After undertaking several Amazonian design
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Her architecture firm, Estudio A0, founded in 2002, focuses its efforts on developing ecologically minded projects, whether public, private or communal, in close collaboration with its clients. Estudio A0's projects aim to recycle construction materials as well as to develop in situ clean energy
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Professors Diego
Quiroga, an anthropologist; Trinidad Perez, and art historian; Ivan Ulchur, a semiologist; Roberto Carbo, a theatre director; and her mentor, Carlos Montufar, a nuclear physicist, have been a long-lasting influence in Duran Calisto's career. By 2000, Duran Calisto attended the
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Regional de la Región Amazónica IKIAM / Ecuador- First place, National Design Competition, in collaboration with Del Hierro AU and L + A Arquitectos; 2013–2014; Ikiam University's Campus design was the recipient of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Amazonia
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Calisto grew up in a city that shaped her early experience and knowledge of architecture, the landscape, and her culture. In early 1990, Duran Calisto attended the Liceo Scientifico Majorana as an exchange high school student in
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production, water harvesting and reuse, high- and low-tech hybrids, and to reactivate the local ecologies. The works and research of
Estudio A0 have been featured in magazines and books from the Americas, Europe, and Asia, such as
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121:(then GSFA) and earned a master's degree in Architecture and a certificate in Historic Preservation. The mentor who influenced her vision and later architectural career the most at PennDesign was the Dutch-American professor,
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of the "urban." The ultimate purpose of the Collective would be to provide resource-conscious environmental planning and design inspired in the ancestral cultures of the continent.
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In 2019, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Editorial Gustavo Gili published "Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina," a project she collaborated on with
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with the highest grades. As an undergraduate, she also completed three minors: in Art History, Performing Arts, and Comparative Literature.
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