Border networks and city: Resistance, exchanges, and circulation

Architect and socio-anthropologist specializing in urban issues. PhD in Scientific and Social Studies from the Western Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESO). Professor and researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Member of the National System of Researchers Level 1 of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (secihti). His research focuses on architectural complexity, the relationship between body and space, socio-spatial inequalities, urban health, the aesthetics of deterioration, and vulnerable urban groups. Author of books such as Obesogenic Cities and Vulnerable Women: Urban Health and Socio-Spatial Exclusion (2018), as well as Spatialities in the Global Era, published in 2020, and Intercultural Representations: Notes from Art, Territory, and Heritage (2023). He has written articles and book chapters, in addition to giving lectures in various locations.

Doctorate in Anthropic Sciences (DCAA) from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA). Full-time professor-researcher in the Department of Architecture at the Center for Design and Construction Sciences at the UAA. Author and co-author of books such as Intercultural Representations. Notes from Art, Territory, and Heritage, as well as New Perspectives on the City and Its Anthropic Context. She has published book chapters, research articles, and scientific dissemination articles; she has also been a speaker and lecturer at various academic events at the local, national, and international levels. Postdoctoral fellow at the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI) in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Member of the National System of Researchers Level 1 (SECIHTI). He is part of the Basic Academic Core of the dcaa. Lines of research: conservation and analysis of architectural heritage, architectural modernity, art, architecture, and urbanism.

Doctor of Social Sciences specializing in Social Anthropology from the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) Western Unit. Master's degree in Communication and Bachelor's degree in Sociology from the University of Guadalajara at CUCSH. Postdoctoral fellow at the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI) in the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Autonomous University of Baja California. Research interests: social change, cultural studies, and socio-environmental processes in the rural-urban fringe of fast-growing cities. Current project: “The emergence of rurality in the face of housing demand in peri-urban areas. Socio-environmental analysis in three fast-growing cities (Mexicali, Guadalajara, and Mérida).” Member of the SECIHTI National System of Researchers.

Professor-researcher at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Faculty of Architecture and Design. PhD in Anthropic Sciences, with an emphasis on Urban Planning, from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. Author of various publications in indexed journals and papers at national and international conferences. Member of the National System of Researchers (researcher candidate). His lines of research are: housing, cross-border dynamics, migration, border cities, territory, and sustainability.

Master's degree in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Design from the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali campus. Graduated as an architect from the same institution in 2016. Professionally, he has developed experience in residential architectural design, interior and furniture design, as well as urban-scale projects. He currently combines his work as an independent designer with academic research, focusing his study on the city, peripheral territories, and the urban and social processes linked to their transformation. His areas of interest also include landscaping and modifications to the
natural environment.

PhD in Planning and Sustainable Development from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC); Master's Degree in Architecture from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Distinguished by the National System of Researchers of the secihti with level 1, recognized with the Desirable Profile of the Prodep, and member of the Academic Body in Training “Urban and Architectural Studies.” Speaker at national and international forums. Author of the book Pueblo nuevo. Formación, desarrollo y degradación de un barrio fundacional (New Town: Formation, Development, and Degradation of a Foundational Neighborhood), as well as other scientific and popular publications, under the lines of research in urban and social processes, morphology, and urban structure and history. Currently a full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Design (FAD) of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Mexicali campus, teaching classes in undergraduate and graduate programs.

PhD in Social Anthropology from the Ibero-American University (UIA); Master's Degree in Graphic Design from the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP) with a specialization in Typographic Design; graduate of the Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Communication Design from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM Azcapotzalco). Member of the National System of Researchers of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI). Professor at the Center for Design and Construction Sciences at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA); desirable Prodep profile. She is part of the Basic Academic Nuclei of the Master's Degree in Urban Planning and the Doctorate in Anthropic Sciences at the UAA. Her research focuses on design and the user from various disciplines, with a holistic vision, assimilating the importance of visual communication, planning, and integrated design.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS), Western Unit, in the field of Contemporary Culture and Identities. Lawyer and Master in Educational Research from the University of Guadalajara. Specialist in Gender Studies from the National Pedagogical University. PhD in Social Sciences with a focus on Social Anthropology from CIESAS Western Unit. Lecturer and researcher at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Participation in various research and educational intervention projects using qualitative and ethnographic methodologies with an emphasis on the analysis of socio-historical transformations and forms of agency of women and families in everyday life. Main lines of research: transitions in rural areas, rural families and women; local knowledge and memories in crafts and artisanal work; education, job training, and professionalization of women.