Your NameOlivia Nazar Anchorena
Email Addressonazaranchorena@udesa.edu.ar
Cohort AssignmentEurope, Africa, and the Middle East with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

I have recently graduated college, so I'm still figuring it out. Right now, I know I what to dive into this world, because my dream is to work in this area. But in reality, I have very little experience in it. I have worked all my life in Art (galleries, photography, curators, etc.).

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

I'm great at connecting people, places, ideas, etc.. I see myself as a great strategist at figuring out what people need and how/ with who/where to find it.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

I wish to be able to learn from more experienced people, but bring my young perspective into everything. I think that I have a very valuable outlook to bring.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

I want to feel that I am able to tackle big projects. Truly impactful projects that can change peoples lives and nature in a beautiful way. I want to feel capable and find the tools and people that will help me get there.

5. And for professional growth?

Cities and developing countries. I want to bring home concepts that understand that positive environmental and social practices can actually bring in money, and that things can be well done even under great chaos and emergency.
Cities, Urbanism and Habitat is what most interests me.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

I have invested in education, Strategic Design, but I have also invested in what I call micro-adventures. I believe interacting with people and getting to know the ways they live is key to understanding where I want to stand in life and how I want to show up.
I have invested time, money, effort and mostly hope, believing in myself has always been important, it allowed me to take chances like applying for this scholarship!

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

The Arts have always been very important to me. Althusser, and Chaile (artist), and Latin American contemporary authors, that have lived things similar to me, or tell stories I can deeply relate to.
Ethnography and sociology are beautiful sciences for me. Architecture and cities that are alive are also subjects that interest me deeply.

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

I don’t think I can frame it, haha.
But if I had to explain it, I think I’d just say that all humans really want the same thing, to take care of children, to take care of themselves, to have somewhere to sleep and something to eat.
I think that once you understand that and relate to everything around you like that - people and nature - life becomes beautiful.

Date CreatedFebruary 23, 2024