La participación comunitaria como estrategia para la intervención físico espacial

Abstract

How to intervene the territory of a vulnerable community? This was the question that we attempted to respond, from the research project called Physical and spatial interventions through design and participatory construction in areas of environmental interest: the case of trail, garden center and soccer field Ninos de los Andes (Children of the Andes) Foundation (2015). The project was developed between the Catholic University of Manizales, the Architecture program and the Ninos de los Andes Manizales (Children of the Andes, Manizales) Foundation. The relationship between the inhabitant and the place he occupies was studied, with the aim of identifying criteria to transform, reconstruct, improve, and enhance spatial relationships between the inhabitants of the Foundation and three spaces that are favorable to meditation, education, and recreation of a community of children of ages ranging from 7 to 17. This process raised a strategy of community participation in order to engage the population with activities about these spaces and to try to transcend them into places in pursuit of generating a sense of belonging. This brings into play various aspects that guide the case study: identifying who occupies it, what they feel in and for this place, how they live it, etc. This is done hand in hand with a spatial analysis as landscape structure with a shape, a topography, a fauna and a flora, but also the possibility of projecting it from the institutional philosophy of the Foundation and the desire and need for its inhabitants to lead a change in their sense of life toward much better and more inclusive horizons.