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Crystalising Decolonial Praxis: Minga and Convite as City Making Otherwise
While decolonial debates are mushrooming in humanities and social science, the field of urban design still needs to uncover the territorial manifestations of decolonial practices to reframe its own disciplinary premises. Engaging with space co-production in Latin America urges us to learn from the long-term spatial practices of solidarity and self-management that gave rise to popular neighbourhoods. This essay offers a joint reflection on two Latin American city-making practices from a decolonial lens. Drawing on our research on the urban legacy of the Andean minga and the Colombian convite in shaping the cities of Quito and Medellín respectively, we analyse their organising principles, plural uses, potentials, and the risks of co-optation. To spatially visualise the impacts that multiple mingas had in shaping urban space, the case of Comité del Pueblo in Quito will be introduced. While for Medellín we will use the case of the trajectory of the neighbourhood of Moravia. We argue that mingas and convites have shaped cities and crystalise decolonial ways of knowing, planning and (re) producing space.
Crystalising Decolonial Praxis: Minga and Convite as City Making Otherwise
While decolonial debates are mushrooming in humanities and social science, the field of urban design still needs to uncover the territorial manifestations of decolonial practices to reframe its own disciplinary premises. Engaging with space co-production in Latin America urges us to learn from the long-term spatial practices of solidarity and self-management that gave rise to popular neighbourhoods. This essay offers a joint reflection on two Latin American city-making practices from a decolonial lens. Drawing on our research on the urban legacy of the Andean minga and the Colombian convite in shaping the cities of Quito and Medellín respectively, we analyse their organising principles, plural uses, potentials, and the risks of co-optation. To spatially visualise the impacts that multiple mingas had in shaping urban space, the case of Comité del Pueblo in Quito will be introduced. While for Medellín we will use the case of the trajectory of the neighbourhood of Moravia. We argue that mingas and convites have shaped cities and crystalise decolonial ways of knowing, planning and (re) producing space.
Crystalising Decolonial Praxis: Minga and Convite as City Making Otherwise
Ortiz, Catalina (author) / Mendez-Abad, Xavier / Orellana, Daniel / Chunga, Félix / Schoonjans, Yves
2022-08-24
In: Mendez-Abad, Xavier and Orellana, Daniel and Chunga, Félix and Schoonjans, Yves, (eds.) Co-production and Public Space: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin American Informal Neighbourhoods. (pp. 19-31). Universidad de Cuenca (2022)
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Medellín , solidarity , Quito , decolonial , self-management
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