Ideas, strategies and projects that give rise to pilot projects. They tackle the challenges raised by the stakeholders involved and which are found in particular places in Barcelona or Medellín.
The Recetas Urbanas – Santiago Cirujeda studio has worked on problems associated with access to housing and looked for solutions that challenge the laws currently in force and the ways of building housing. I want a home looks back at the demands and achievements in housing over the 14 years Recetas Urbanas has been working in this field.
The ‘artivist’ collective Left Hand Rotation has explored in-depth the subject of gentrification as a global phenomenon typical of contemporary times. The workshop Gentrification Is Not a Lady’s Name, run in several cities around the world, has resulted in the creation of new platforms for raising the visibility of this problem, the documentary Luz and the Museo de los desplazados (Museum of the Displaced) web platform.
Maps drawn up by collectives that have been directly affected by urban transformations because their practices need the street to express themselves. Social cartographers, designers, photographers, skaters, among others, have organised themselves to keep a lookout for the problems associated with the gentrification process in the centre of Medellín on three fronts: the street, the internet and the exhibition gallery.
Barcelona City Council aims to make officially protected housing more accessible to the public through building leases. These represent a new formula lying halfway between purchasing and renting and they enable lessees to become flat owners by paying very affordable monthly fees similar in price to social-housing rent.
Research project about temporary housing for the homeless. It has been designed to bring together the essential components of a home without losing the characteristic versatility of a provisional or portable dwelling. Minimal and essential, it represents a small indentation in the city, set back from the street and embodies the idea of a home by making people want to stay there again.
This space recreates the room of a tenant in Medellín and brings together in its interior most of the uses of a home. It is a symbolic creation with objects, materials and colours that transports us, in a physical and subjective way, to a way of inhabiting the city.
Faced with the uncertainty of finding housing in the centre of Medellín and the peculiar fact that some of its citizens merely inhabit and exist… we have recreated small models of the city’s urban and human ecosystem, some of them representing the real situation and others a possible solution to current problems.
CTPA is an academic exploration of the theme of emergency housing based on the methodology of the Project. The eight teaching units act independently and jointly with work in the classroom and case studies.
The PASaPAS project promotes the self-regeneration of Les Planes and improvements to its urban metabolism, which lie in the cooperative identity value of the neighbourhood, while addressing the problem of Energy Poverty.