Juan Pablo García Sossa

JPGS’ practice explores the development of cultures, visions, realities, and worlds through the remix and re·appropriation of technologies from a Tropikósperspective (Tropics as Region and Mindset). JPGS has been part of diverse research institutions and design studios and currently is a design research member at SAVVY Contemporary The Laboratory of Form-Ideas’ Design Department, Berlin, and Co-Director of Estación Terrena a space for artistic research and pluriversing technologies at the iconic commercial district of electronic components in Bogotá. JPGS is a Fellow at EYEBEAM , New York City (2020); Web Fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2021); and a  Prince Claus CAREC fellow, Amsterdam (2022). In 2021 JPGS initiated Futura Trōpica Netroots, an InterTropical Net of Grass-Root Local Networks connecting communities and nets of support and affection within the Tropical Belt (Latin America and the Caribbean, the African Continent, South Asia and South-East Asia, among many more). The platform is designed to facilitate the lateral exchange of other forms of knowledges, nets, and technologies from a Tropikós perspective. In 2022, JPGS developed the curatorial research and netting project Magical Hackerism or The Elasticity of Resilience at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin.