Category: Project – Selected
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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.
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‘Race’ and Space Curricula
This curriculum is our response to our collective reflection on built environment curricula, which in general avoid issues of ‘race’ despite a strong and inextricable link between ‘race’ and space.
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Comparative Urban Design: Exploring border-making practices in Medellin and Beirut
This proposal explores how comparative urban design aims to contribute to dismantle inequalities and the uneven dynamic of process of inclusion and exclusion to envision paths to foster spatial justice at multiple scales using the cases of border-making practice in Medellin and Beirut.
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Patrimoniovivo
This website is part of our collaborative work to contribute to the recognition of everyday spatial practices in barrios populares as a living heritage of the city, and the agency of the Integral Neighborhood Upgrading (Mejoramiento Integral de Barrios) as a path for progressive urban planning and design. Moravia in Medellin is our site of…
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Coinvite
This project explores the power of transmedia storytelling for trans-local urban learning anchoring on the slum upgrading experiences in Medellin, Colombia. It brings together methodological and pedagogical tools for advocating for shifting narratives about the intervention in self-managed neighbourhoods.
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Yangon Stories
Yangon Stories is a collaborative research project aimed at documenting and bearing witness to the spatial violence in the city. The project attempts to mobilize action against further spatial violence and provide a basis of inquiry to the extent of which spatial violence impacts urban development and everyday life.
Dr. Catalina Ortiz 