Category: Project – Selected
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GREAT: Gridding Equitable Urban Futures in Areas of Transition
This collaborative project seeks to understand the ways in which being on- and off-grid provide an opportunity to rethink the relationship between people and urban infrastructure in Cali, Colombia and Havana, Cuba.
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Sheffield Otherwise
This collaborative research-design project proposes a counter mapping approach to reveal the living heritage of diaspora and queer communities in Sheffield that have been left out from official heritage narratives, urban policies and public space representations.
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Collage
Collage making is a playful assemblage, a layered composition made out of multiple visual sources. It allows to craft incrementally a complex display of a new figuration. It becomes a process of archiving, sifting through, theming. It allows shifting scales and a malleable definition of hierarchies. The trials with background and foreground resembles our search…
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Corona Haikus
These entries were my contribution to Corona Haikus, a transmedia project about collaborative haiku making during the Covid 19 lockdown. This became collaborative poetry in times of isolation.
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Bargaining space: deal-making strategies for large-scale renewal projects in Colombian cities
This research suggests shifting the focus of negotiation studies to off-the-table agent’ strategies and tactics for mobilizing interests, the historical trajectories of materiality of space, and the dialogic connections of transnational flows of planning ideas and capital.
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Colombia: Land and Housing for the Urban Poor
This project aimed to learn about the land patterns for formal and informal housing in the cities of Bogota and Medellin and to learn about the responses offered by the municipalities to social housing and the production of land for development.
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Synergies for Solidarity
This project focused on mapping of civil society collaborations and initiatives to face COVID-19 in self-built neighbourhoods. This collaborative work resulted in the definition of a decalogue that proposes a roadmap for the Latin American region as an imperative to structure a coordinated, effective and scaled action for upgrading self-built neighbourhoods.
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Know: Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality
This project focuses on knowledge co-production as a tool to achieve urban equality and assesses how it can support the development and implementation of policies and planning in cities.
Dr. Catalina Ortiz 