Innovation for the Integration of Self-Produced Environments | AC Red Urbana Ciudadana

2007-2010

Institutions:

* Asociación Red Urbana Ciudadana

A nonprofit association dedicated to managing urban projects in underprivileged environments

Leader:

* Ignacio Cardona  (PI 60%)

AC Members (Co-PI, 5% each):

* Enrique Fernández-Shaw / María M. Herrera-Luque / Alberto Manrique / Ignacio Cardona / Marco Negrón / Leopoldo Provenzali / Santiago Fernández / Carlos Ciordia

Students at Universidad Simón Bolívar:

* Laura Bongiovanni / Martina Centeno / Oriana De Lucia / Julia Mañá / Rebeca Peraza / Kharina Trujillo

Producers of the video documentary:

* Edmundo Ramos Fonseca, Jorge Domínguez Dubuc, Roberto Puchetti, Ignacio Cardona

Book Editor:

* Alcaldía de Sucre

* Fundación Espacio

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This is an Engaged Scholarship of Teaching developed to integrate four main stakeholders for the intervention of Self-Produced Environments: local government, private sector, universities, and community members. This is a pedagogic project to collaboratively define land policies for a regional-wide improvement of underprivileged communities.

The project began with a public grant awarded by the Majority of Chacao, which served to develop two projects. First, the Video-Documentary “Networks of a City: Caracas (Tramas de una Ciudad: Caracas),” which served as a tool to discuss the importance of including underserved sectors of the city on the urban map. Second, the built-design project “Parque La Montañita” in Petare through Participatory Design Workshops with architecture students of Universidad Simón Bolívar.

The second project became a reference for a new and innovative perspective on public interventions of Self-Produced Environments. One year Later, we served as a consultant to replicate the idea in an agreement between the Majority of Sucre and Universidad Simón Bolívar (2008-2012), a program that built 30 public spaces in Petare, the denser self-produced neighborhood in Latin America.

In summary, the whole research project was envisioned as a tool to educate the entire society about the importance of integrating underprivileged communities into urban dynamics.