Marielsa Castro Vizcarra is an architect from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and she has a master's degree in art, design and the public domain from Harvard University. Her practice has been developed as curator, educator and researcher. For two years (2017 –19) she was the director of the public and educational program at the Arts Museums of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia. From 2012 to 2015 she directed LIGA–Space for Architecture, Mexico City. An independent platform established to promote the exchange of ideas and research of contemporary Latin American architecture through a site-specific exhibition program. She is currently professor at the architecture school of the Tecnológico de Monterrey and cofounder of coopia, a trans-disciplinary cooperative that works on/through the limits of architecture.