Catalina Ortiz worked with Artangel on Longplayer Assembly – joining 23 other participants in a non-stop 12-hour conversation relay presented live online on 26 September 2020, marking the twentieth anniversary of Longplayer.
Ortiz is an urbanist and Associate Professor at UCL. Her research is on critical spatial practices and the negotiated co-production of space intersecting urban design, strategic spatial planning, and urban policy mobility in the global south. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago as Fulbright scholar as well as a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Studies. Ortiz’s professional experience of over a decade focuses on teaching, research, and consultancy linked to international organisations, national and local governments around urban projects, and spatial planning issues in Latin America.
Before joining UCL, Ortiz worked for the National University of Colombia (Medellin), where she was the Director of the Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture. She has been a visiting fellow at the Latin Lab, GSAPP, Columbia University, and at DUSP, MIT.