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The global urban context can be characterized by the tension between two conditions. On one hand, there is the advance of interconnection or the information and knowledge flow, and the movement of scientific variables and their technological applications. This condition refers to the globalization process and affects in different ways to regions, nations, and cities. On the other hand, the accumulation of multidimensional crisis (environmental, economic, social, cultural) that has become more evident because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the context that impels to review the forms and the processes of the spaces for the production and management of urban knowledge, with the purpose of establish adjustments in its agenda. The goal of this paper is to expose the elements in the Urban Form Laboratory (UAM Azcapotzalco) reconfiguration to become a complementary source for the critical thinking, academic development, and knowledge management, to the understanding of the morphological processes of XXI century cities. This process has two axes: the strengthening of teaching and the interdisciplinary work. Everything is part of a collective reflection that takes place in the Area of Urban Studies and the Postgraduate Program in Design and Urban Studies. |
