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For our final\\xa0Mini-Session\\xa0from the\\xa0Next Up\\xa0series, Nicholas Korody interviews TOMA,\\xa0a Santiago-based collective. TOMA build politically-charged social spaces, using design as a strategy for bringing people together rather than as an end in itself. With their installation for the\\xa0Chicago Architecture Biennial,\\xa0Escuelopolis, the Chilean architects catalogued and mapped the connections between their home-base and the Midwestern metropolis, honing in on the exportation of neoliberalism to South America by the University of Chicago-trained \\u201cChicago Boys.\\u201d

Regularly printing newspapers to document their research as it occurred, TOMA invited visitors and participants to the Biennial to actively participate in their architectural research, gathering people together to consider the processes that keep us apart.