Prisioneros de Ritoque: La Ciudad Abierta y el centro de detención

Abstract

In the early 1970s there were two spaces of exception in Ritoque: A school of architecture and a concentration camp. While there was no contact between them, their occupants formed communities and used similar repertoires (games, events and performances) to create real and imaginary spaces. School professors formed a utopian enclave that freed them from regulatory structures but limited its political action. Camp prisoners instead turned their forced isolation into active political resistance.