La Antideriva (The Anti-drift) is a publication that analyses the commercial guilds that still exist in the historical city centre of Santiago, Chile, as a residue of the tradition of the medieval guilds (groups of craftsman and artisans occupying parts of the urban texture through generations) brought to the territory by Spanish colonisation. The publication takes the form of a map, based on Guy Debord's map The Naked City (1957), within the context of the Situationnists movement and the importance of the figure of the flâneur - with the objective of promoting a kind of commerce in the form of a 'walking drift' through the city centre. La Antideriva proposes the acquisition of products of small scale and independent businesses, and an alternative to capital mass-production long with restrained space they occupy: the American shopping mall, which is an extremely prolific model in the city of Santiago. 

La Antideriva was selected as Outstanding Publication at the XXI Architecture and Urbanism Biennial of Chile, 2019. Co-edited by Fundacion de Arquitectura Fragil and co-produced with Alberto Sato, Serena Dambrosio and Paulina Montero. 

Santiago, CL.

Completed, 2016.

Photos © Micaela Costa.