“”I am very happy to have the privilege to share with colleagues from Latin America, and now particularly in Buenos Aires, to share the great challenges we have in terms of democratic innovation, city building, co-creation, mutual learning, collective intelligence in order to improve our cities in Latin America”. This is what Sofia Castillo from […]
How to link vulnerable neighbourhoods to the city centre when mountains literally separate them? At the beginning of the 21st century, a Colombian capital found a mobility solution that was soon replicated in other rugged areas of Latin America. With different characteristics, the premise is the same: reducing physical distances shrinks social distances.
The region is accumulating more and more successful experiences of urban interventions, where the community is the protagonist. The challenge now is how to project that impact in order to have greater incidence. A topic of discussion at the III Forum on Urban Interventions, held in Peru.
From CILA we built a repository of useful resources that makes available tools to democratize innovation in the cities of the South and work towards a democratic, collaborative and transformative governance. We did not set out to invent the wheel but to map existing resources that were valuable and the mission is not over yet.
Last March 13,985 signatures were filed in the Senate of the Republic with the purpose of declaring a national emergency due to the increase in femicides and other violence against women. According to the Observatory of Feminicides in Colombia 619 women were murdered and in this year 2023 35 cases have been registered [1]. Although […]
We tend to define things by what they are not, comparing them with their opposites. In the case of cities, urban is defined in opposition to rural. This only reduces the complexity of cities. In the collective imagination, the urban is associated with all the vortex that makes the city: pollution, buildings, cement, manifestations, chaos. […]
