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workshop. 1erTaller Internacional "Patrimonio Emergente y Apropiación Social" / 1st International Workshop "Emerging Heritage and Social Appropriation"
fecha. Sep - Oct 2016
lugar. Bochachica, Cartagena, Colombia
directores de workshop.
ETSAB/Arq. Jordi Ross +
AC (arquitectosdecabecera.org) /Arq. Ibon Bilbao +
Piso Piloto (pisopiloto.org)/ Arq. Josep Bohigas + Zuloark(zuloark.com)/Inteligencias Colectivas (inteligenciascolectivas.org)
Arq. Manuel Pascual y Arq. Juan Chacón.
equipo de profesores.
Arq. Carlos Hernandez
Arq. Javier Peinado
Arq. Gustavo Correa (UPC)
Arq. Rodrigo Artega (UTADEO)
participantes. VII Encuentro Nacional de Patrimonio - Memoria Emergente + Estudiantes de Arquitectura PEI-PUJ + MinCultura + Escuela Taller de Cartagena de Indias + Escuela Taller Bogotá + Universidad Tadeo Cartagena + Univerdad Católica de Pereira + Jorge Villla - Taller de Cine y Documental.
Isométrico del Fuerte de San Fernando.
KEYWORDS appropriation, heritage, collective intelligence, social innovation, parliament.
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On Sep-Oct 2016, the PEI organized the 1st International Workshop at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, called “Emerging Heritage and Social Appropriation” in collaboration with ETSAB (Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona-UPC)/Spain, AC-Arquitectos de Cabecera/Spain and Zuloark/Collective Intelligence/Spain as workshop directors, and with Tadeo University of Cartagena and Catholic University of Pereira.
The PEI was invited to participate on the “Emerging Memory” event organized by Ministry of Culture and Fortifications at Cartagena and Bocachica on the San Fernando Fortress, Tierra Bomba Island, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
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the Fortress
"emerging memory"
Fuerte de San Fernando.
Fuerte de San Fernando.
Batería de San José.
Bocachica, a Caribbean community with a rich built (fortress) and cultural (afro-Colombian) heritage, surrounded by mangrove and the ocean, also with certain difficulties, like access to basic services such as water and health, significant deforestation problems in the area through the years and with urban equipment difficulties.
cartagena de indias
Batería de San José.
Fuerte de San Fernando.
bocachica
CONTRAST - View from one of the main streets of Bocachica, their everyday contrasting sight.
colegio domingo
activities and workshops with the community and students
shadows
Fuerte de San Fernando.
Fuerte de San Fernando.
Fuerte de San Fernando.
Batería de San José.
Batería de San José.
The objective of the workshop was to introduce and immerse students into Collective Intelligence methodology that went from conferences, to hands on work, to participate on imparting engaging activities with the different groups of the community (kids, youths, moms, leaders, elders, fishermen, etc…) to understand the context and connect with the community and to have a glimpse of the social qualities of the community, so the student could be able to make design proposals of tactical urbanism appropriation strategies and social innovation towards the built heritage and public space, proposals at small scale that could be able to produce big impacts.
Encouraging the Collective Intelligence methodology through the architectural design proposal of a big shadow for gathering, which could be used effectively by the different groups of the community afterwards the event, so it had to be strategically planned and multifunctional.
We realized, after the different workshops and activities that on tropical Caribbean communities a shadow means to remain under a tree and/or using an umbrella (a personal shadow) to move from one place to another given the climatic conditions.
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For the workshop closure we made a call for a “Parliament” where the main subjects and concerns from the community could be addressed and heard, The participants where: community members (moms, elders, teachers, leaders, youth...), also Ministry Of Culture members, the Pei team students and teachers.
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A great result of the Parliament was to be able to produce a space where the community could be heard, which produced an incredible feedback.
It was a great experience for the students to learn outside the classroom, and not only because they were able to build something they designed, it was also a tremendous opportunity to encourage a social sensitivity towards the people that is using space we are designing, “the users”.
the parliament
The final proposal was a big shadow made of many colorful umbrellas that could be given out after the event to the community members that participate and helped; complemented with an initiative by some of the inhabitants to make a reforestation plan at short and long term, so we got some plants and found some sponsors of the community that compromised to plant a tree on the street they live in and to take care of it; also it was organized a collaborative carpentry workshop at the fortress to restore old furniture and in a certain way “to bring home to the outside, to the fortress”. Because home is not only the four walls we live in, it also means the patio, the street, the public space, the fortress and nature, a collective intelligence strategy to encourage public space appropriation.
