[3] Professors Diego Quiroga, an anthropologist; Trinidad Perez, and art historian; Ivan Ulchur, a semiologist; Roberto Carbo, a theatre director; and her mentor, Carlos Montufar, a nuclear physicist, have been a long-lasting influence in Duran Calisto's career.

[2] Winka taught Duran Calisto to interpret architecture as a woven fabric— an interlaced system in which joints -whether static or dynamic- define the logic of assembly for the whole spatial fabric.

[1] In 2011, Duran Calisto was awarded the Loeb Fellowship from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University to develop the research network, South America Project, in close collaboration with professor Felipe Correa.

[4] Due to the complexity of the Amazonia, in 2015, Duran Calisto decided to pursue a doctoral degree from the Urban Planning program in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA.

As of 2020, Duran Calisto serves as a visiting faculty at Yale Architecture conducting research seminars called "Sustainability: A Critical View from the Urban History of Amazonia" and "Territorial Cities of pre-colonial America.

[3] The main goal of the collective would be to engage and support Amazonian municipalities in the planning of urban ecologies that -like in ancestral times- conceive the city in its territorial dimension as intertwined forest, chakra (polyculture or agro-ecology), and settlement.

[3] In addition to curating and organizing multiple international seminars and design-research workshops, Duran Calisto has co-edited the books Beyond Petropolis: Designing a Practical Utopia in Nueva Loja (ORO Publishers, 2015), with Michael Sorkin and Matthias Altwicker; and Urbanismo Ecológico en América Latina (Editorial GG - Harvard GSD, 2019), with Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Marina Correia and Luis Valenzuela.

[6] Estudio A0's projects aim to recycle construction materials as well as to develop in situ clean energy production, water harvesting and reuse, high- and low-tech hybrids, and to reactivate the local ecologies.

[4] Duran Calisto has been juror in international curated awards like the Premio Rogelio Salmona and a member of the scientific committee in conferences such as the Temuco SBE19: "Sustainable Built- Urban Planning, Global Problems, and Local Policies."

In 2019, Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and Editorial Gustavo Gili published "Urbanismo ecológico en América Latina," a project she collaborated on with Mohsen Mostafavi, Gareth Doherty, Marina Correia and Giannina Braschi.