Category: Website
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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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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.
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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 