Casa para la Vida. Enjeux de l’amplification d’une démarche non reproductible.

Abstract

This text examines the issues involved in amplifying a committed, non-transferable research approach based on the concrete project-process of the Casa para la Vida, currently being built with the community of the « Bello Oriente » self-built neighborhood in Colombia. The aim is to show that the transformative and emancipatory scope of this approach lies both in its commitment to a living processual logic and in the implementation of subversive devices aimed at diverting the normative contradictions of urban planning, and then to suggest ways in which this type of approach can be amplified.

Keywords

• action research
• commitment
• subversion
• co-construction
• architecture