One thing is certain, Supersudaca is not about one story or one version of any topic, initiative or project, but in concerns of its origin.
Any attempt to understand how the group, collective, network, think-tank, foundation – or related category – works requires you to cope with the undetermined. A small exercise may help clarify this modus operandi, a sequence of extracts from T.E. Lawrence’s Science of Guerrilla Warfare published in the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1929:

“but suppose they were an influence, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? (…) might be a vapour, blowing where they listed.”

“(…) From this theory came to be developed ultimately an unconscious habit of never engaging the enemy at all.”

“(...) nothing material to lose, so they were to defend nothing and to shoot nothing. Their cards were speed and time, not hitting power, and these gave them strategic rather than tactical strength.”

“(…) never tried to maintain or improve an advantage, but to move off and strike again somewhere else.”

“Maximum disorder was, in a real sense its equilibrium.”

“Maximum irregularity and articulation were the aims. Diversity threw the enemy intelligence off the track.”

“(…) serving a common ideal, without tribal emulation, and so could not hope for any esprit de corps.”

“(…) could go home whenever the conviction failed him. Their only contract was honour.”

“Guerrillas must be allowed liberal work-room.”

“(…) depended entirely on quality, not on quantity”

“(…) Guerrilla war is far more intellectual than a bayonet charge.”

Supersudaca is not about warfare but a hopeful cumulus of Architecture’s wider potential, particularly in unexpected contexts where it can critically improve living quality. Most experiences are in a direct sourced information (intelligence) and action (surprise) mode, which could be compared to a kind of Guerrilla organisation. Instead of a visible and heavy Think Tank, a dispersed and effective Think Guerrilla always seeking the opportunity to engage Architecture in cases where it seems absent, inoperative or even reluctant.

As a consequence, there is no common unique truth to prove but a quest for multiple adapting visions from a range of operational branches in dissimilar places such as: IND in Rotterdam (www.internationaldesign.nl), OUEST in Brussels (www.ouest-archi.org), CASArchitects in Curaçao (www.casarchitects.supersudaca.org), 51-1 in Lima (www.51-1.com), Pop-arq (www.pop-arq.com), REstudio in Montevideo (www.reestudiodearquitectura.com), Pop-arq (www.pop-arq.com) and Ana Rascovsky in Buenos Aires (www.anarascovsky.com), and Supersudaka (www.supersudaka.cl) between Santiago and Talca. All boosted by collaboration with a broad span of professionals, friends and allies such as the Dutch Prince Claus Fund and the Stimuleringfonds, which offer crucial support and universities in all the base cities and other parts of the planet.

More than a guerrilla vapour, more than some Latin guys who met in the Netherlands while studying, it is an Internet-propelled generation of architects, a body of innovative projects all over, freaky intellectuals and a humorous clan of architects; Supersudaca neither proclaims a return to dogmatic self-securing disciplinary principles nor uncritically accepts the professional-pragmatic status quo – totally the reverse… Supersudaca may be a subjective and elusive notion but it is a practical yet intuitive level, a sense, a motion, you may dig it – hopefully – or never know too much about it… musically speaking: a Groove.
Juan Pablo Corvalan Hochberger