Ortiz, Catalina;
Villamizar-Duarte, Natalia;
(2025)
Living Archives [Archivo Vivo]: Weaving gendered (hi)stories of territorial reclamation.
In: Isayev, Elena, (ed.)
Imagining Futures Collected Works. Un/Archival Conversations and Practices.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14542/cel48mfap
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Abstract
The Living Archive of Moravia is a collaborative project that documents stories of territorial reclamation in Moravia (Medellín, Colombia) as part of the city's living heritage. It frames living archives as a decolonial, feminist methodology to re-centre life and imagine relational ways of thinking and being for reclaiming urban space and mobilising spatial justice. Through learning alliances and co-creation processes, the project weaves together audiovisual materials, textile narratives, participatory mapping, and digital technologies to visualize and contest hegemonic urban narratives. Focusing on three central themes—security of tenure, reception of migrants, and environmental reparation—the project positions living archives as agents of spatial justice and collective imagination. It highlights the central role of displaced and migrant women as builders of the city and shapers of the future, offering a replicable strategy for urban transformation rooted in community knowledge, challenging stigma while fostering sustainable, inclusive futures. The Living Archive emerges as a dynamic platform for political advocacy, territorial healing, and the co-production of urban futures from below.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | Living Archives [Archivo Vivo]: Weaving gendered (hi)stories of territorial reclamation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14542/cel48mfap |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10213135 |
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