Torolab is an artist collective, workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations or phenomena of interest for research, basing the studies in the realm of life styles to better grasp the idea of quality of life.

Raúl Cárdenas Osuna (Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 1969) holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California in San Diego.

He has taught at CENTRO (Mexico City) and the Universidad Iberoamericana’s School of Architecture (Tijuana) in Mexico; at the San Francisco Art Institute and the California College of the Arts in the US; and University of Rennes 2 in France.

In October 2011, Raúl Cárdenas was awarded for best arts-intervention project with social impact by Harvard’s Cultural Agents Initiative[2] and on December has been named Person of the year by Tijuana’s newspaper ‘Frontera’.

[3] Right now, he also directs the non-profit organization ‘Sociedad de Agentes de Cambio’ and is the director of the Digital table for the Metropolitan Strategic Plan of Tecate-Rosarito-Tijuana, where he currently lives and works.