David Quiles Guilló - September 8th, 2026


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Start

2001–2007

Create before having a structure. Learn by doing. Edit, publish, design and connect people. Turn the lack of infrastructure into a reason to build it


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Connect

2001–2013

Work across art, design, music, communication and culture. Build international networks between artists, creatives, institutions and cities. Understand editing, selection and connection as forms of creation


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Build Contexts

2001–2020

Producing content and creating systems where others can produce is compatible. Platforms, communities, open calls, exhibitions, publications and networks. Understand the internet as a place, an architecture and a cultural space. Design open, distributed structures capable of operating without a centre


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Expand

2001–2026

Work at scale across countries, teams, disciplines and communities. Build systems capable of growing while maintaining identity and autonomy. Experiment with new forms of participation, production and digital circulation. Here now. Avoid documentation and archiving as part of the process


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Reduce

2026–2027

Question growth, scale and constant optimisation. Fewer elements. More intention. Concentrate resources, simplify structures and remove what no longer adds value. Return to objects, music, materiality and smaller processes. Use artificial intelligence as a tool for creation, conversation, experimentation, selection and editing


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Focus

2027 →

Build less. Build better. Create small structures capable of generating large consequences. Combine internet and object, technology and culture, strategy and intuition. Maintain independence without isolation. Use systems without obeying them. Accept error, contradiction and the unexpected as part of the process




A practice shaped by different ways of thinking, making, connecting and beginning again

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Work Processes

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Initiate

Turn intuitions into structures


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Connect

Bring together people, disciplines and places


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Edit

Select, arrange and remove


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Contextualise

Create conditions for things to happen


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Distribute

Replace centres with networks


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Iterate

Work through versions


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Reduce

Find what is essential


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Materialise

Turn ideas into experiences


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Disobey

Use systems without necessarily accepting all their rules


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Begin again

No structure is definitive

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Way of Being

Curious and independent, attentive to what happens between people, disciplines and ideas, drawn to what is not there yet and to unexpected connections

Moving between intuition and analysis, expansion and reduction, values autonomy, generosity, precision, humour and the freedom to make mistakes and begin again

Rather than following fixed methods, David creates open structures that adapt to people, materials, places and time, questioning what is given and leaving room for the unexpected


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Begin Something

Have an idea that does not exist yet?

Let’s find together the people, structure and process it needs to become

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