Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez: “Expanded architecture is thinking beyond the simple design of built products”

Questioning both the methodologies involved in the production of architecture and its consumption in traditional representation allows us to engage in a series of interdisciplinary dialogues that, rather than limiting the possibilities of the discipline itself, can expand it in response to the complex contexts that define today's landscape. Rodrigo Valenzuela Jerez, architect and founder of EstudioRO - (E)Studio Futur@ and current director of the School of Architecture at the Universidad de las Américas (UDLA), Chile, shares in the following interview some of the design concepts that guide his “expanded” practice, in which form is a secondary outcome of the strategies and operations that enable users to appropriate their own spaces.