Júlia Nueno Guitart is a researcher and computational designer. Her work explores the intersection of digital infrastructures and resistant, emerging, and disappearing communities. She is currently a Forensic Architecture PhD fellow and teaches at the Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths, UK)
PROJECTS & RESEARCH
Attacks on Aid in Gaza. Preliminary findings︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024
Documentation and analysis of preliminary findings and attacks on aid documented up to May 2024.
Humanitarian Violence in Gaza︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024
Documentation and analysis of Israel's military campaign turning principles of humanitarianism into weapons deployed against a civilian population in Gaza.
Attacks on Aid in Gaza. Preliminary findings︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024
Documentation and analysis of preliminary findings and attacks on aid documented up to May 2024.
Documentation and analysis of preliminary findings and attacks on aid documented up to May 2024.
Humanitarian Violence in Gaza︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2024
Documentation and analysis of Israel's military campaign turning principles of humanitarianism into weapons deployed against a civilian population in Gaza.
Destruction of medical infrastructure in Gaza︎︎︎Forensic Architecture. 2023
Analysis of the IOF pattern of attacks on Gaza's medical infrastructure: intimidation, direct targeting, siege and occupation, rendering Gaza's hospitals out of service.
Open Source Munitons Portal︎︎︎Airwars & ARES. 2023
A visual tool for journalists and researchers to classify munition remnants as found on the battle-field (and) with more than 500 verified images.
A year of the Shahed︎︎︎Airwars and DerSpiegel. 2023
How Iranian Drones changed automated warfare in Ukraine.
Winner of Sigma Award for digital journalism
The hidden casualties of Britain's war︎︎︎Airwars and TheGuardian. 2023
Searching for the victims of UK's strikes in Syria and Iraq.
Waiting to happen︎︎︎Airwars and VICENews. 2022
Reconstruction of the attack on a US-backed prison that led to the killing of 500 civilians.
Riding the Algorithm︎︎︎Centre for Research Architecture (Goldsmiths) and IWGB. 2022
Repurposing delivery workers data into a digital commons.
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Real Time Structure︎︎︎Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative. 2021
Departing from Haans Hacke Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971, mapping the extension and relations of investment funds in Barcelona’s real-estate property structure.
Collaboration with Xavier Nueno.
Impluvium︎︎︎2nd Prize in Barcelona’s SuperBlock Design Contest. 2021
Like an archeological excavation of Cerda’s Eixample, the proposal removes the current pavement to give a second opportunity to the old cobblestones, the natural substrate, water and roots.
Collaboration with Javier Moreno.
QGis for Housing Union Strategy ︎︎︎
Sindicat de Llogateres 2021Energy Communities ︎︎︎
Azimut360 2021Project lead in the design & installation of the first collective self-consumption communities in Spain.Shared Consumption ︎︎︎
Azimut360 2020Project lead in the design & installation of 11 PV plants in public buildings to promote a decentralised energy generation model.Stand-alone Container ︎︎︎
Azimut360 2020Project co-lead, an original idea developed by Azimut360, to achieve a portable and renewable solution to back energy needs of clinical laboratories in The Gambia and Angola.
Design & Pedagogy ︎︎︎
Azimut360 + Medical Research Council (The Gambia) 2019Project co-lead in the design, procurement, coordination construction, training and commissioning of a 500kWp solar installation in The Gambia entirely installed by women.Solar microgrids ︎︎︎
Earth Spark International (Haiti)Winner of Latin America Green Award 2018Project assistant in the launch of a solar micro-grid with storage and diesel backup of 100 kW in the town of Les Anglais, and design and coordination of the construction works for a second micro-grid of similar characteristics in the town of Tiburon.
EXHIBITIONS & FILM
The six-year-old victim of Britain’s war in Iraq︎︎︎
(London, 2023) Visual investigation on the killing of six-year-old Taiba Younis by a Hellfire missile. Open-Source Film Award.
‘Waiting to happen’︎︎︎
(London, 2023). Documentary. Associate Producer in documentary on the findings of Airwars and VICENews year-long visual investigation into the failures in a US-backed prison in Syria.
The six-year-old victim of Britain’s war in Iraq︎︎︎
(London, 2023) Visual investigation on the killing of six-year-old Taiba Younis by a Hellfire missile. Open-Source Film Award.
(London, 2023) Visual investigation on the killing of six-year-old Taiba Younis by a Hellfire missile. Open-Source Film Award.
‘Waiting to happen’︎︎︎
(London, 2023). Documentary. Associate Producer in documentary on the findings of Airwars and VICENews year-long visual investigation into the failures in a US-backed prison in Syria.
Qualsevol Lloc / Anyplace ︎︎︎
Centre d’Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona, 2022).Video installation on the work processes that sustain the mechanisms of reproduction of places and objects resulting from the encounter between mass tourism and digital economies. Collaboration with Noha Mokhtar and Xavier Nueno. Commissioned by Gema DarboWatch Mix Fruit (23 min. Colour. Sound)
Landlord Open-House ︎︎︎
Model Architecture Festival (Barcelona, 2022). Augmented Reality installation exploring the domestic expressions of the Barcelona’s real-state property structure.Collaboration with Farzin Lotfi-Jam
Video of AR experience (only for smartphone)
St. James Hatcham Gallery (London, 2022). MA Exhibition. Video-installation on the role of data and embodied knowledge in delivery work.
Sindicat ︎︎︎
Raindance Film Festival in Curzon Cinema (London, 2021). Field Producer in Sindicat, TheGuardian (2021) documentary directed by Irene Baqué following the resistance of organised women that defend the right to housing in Spain.WRITING & FORUMS
The Target Factory
On Israeli military uses AI to turn civilian sites into military targets. October 2024
Recursive Violence
Public talk in Institute for Postnatural Studies. September 2024