Ortiz, Catalina; Hernandez Pineda, Luz; (2025) Urban design otherwise: Weaving learning alliances for co-creation in/with popular neighbourhoods in Medellin. In: Sletto, Bjørn and Winkler, Tanja and Huq, Efadul, (eds.) Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City. (pp. 45-63). Edward Elgar Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter tracks a series of conversations around the lessons learnt from three consecutive cocreation projects -‘COiNVITE’ , ‘Living Heritage’, and ‘Living Archive’- in Medellin, Colombia. We aim to reflect on the joint explorations around reframing self-built neighbourhoods to overcome stigma and alternative upgrading interventions. Using storytelling, we will reflect on how to think more broadly about the praxis of urban design otherwise by weaving different stories. Stories are key in the circulation of urban knowledge and focus on knowledge-as-intervention-in-reality as a key aspect to ground cognitive justice in city-making processes. We are inspired by weaving, not only as a metaphor to structure the chapter, but also as a practice for mending the broken social, symbolic and physical urban tissues. We argue that enacting an urban design otherwise require learning alliances for rehearsing spatial imaginations and building trans-local solidarities to contribute to a decolonising agenda in urban planning and design.

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