Article
La crianza de los paisajes vivos como detonante de sus transformaciones. El caso de Cotogchoa
Fecha
2018-01Registro en:
1390-7263
10.18537/est.v007.n012.a03
1390-9274
Autor
Montaño Huerta, María Dolores
Armijos Moya, Ekaterina
Institución
Resumen
The lecture will define intercultural landscapes, living landscapes and the way
they "breed" contributing to physical, social and attitudinal changes in the
rural parish of Cotogchoa. The tasks, searches and conceptualizations are
built with actions, research, academic and teaching proposals from the Living
Landscapes Laboratory of FADA-PUCE; through processes of participatory
design between the academy and the community since 2014.
Cotogchoa is a vulnerable rural parish due to the uncontrolled growth of the
urban mark of Quito, which has moved an industrial strip to the edges of the
latter. This circumstance and the regulations about the size of the lot
prioritize the urban situation on the rural characteristics of the area, favoring
the densification and urbanization of agricultural land. The proposal is
development to contribute to the characterization, valuation and recovery of
local identities by reinforcing relationships and links between "living
landscapes" rescuing traditions and celebrations, as well as alternative
territorial planning in an Andean region with multiple conditions: physical,
cultural, ethnic and diverse thoughts.
The laboratory through workshops of identity, participative design,
consultancies, experiences and celebrations, has investigated the cultural
dimension of the parish. This knowledge has empowered its inhabitants on
attitudes and awareness in the preservation of their original rural vocation by
establishing a space for negotiation in the face of urban overflow. It has
evidenced and potentiated affects, relationships and links between living
landscapes, exposing an evaluation system based on records that shows the
fragility of the territory in front of the transformations of the urbanization
process. Critical-perceptual maps and cartographies, community-driven,
academic-community projects, creative-educational workshops, exhibitions
and events that consolidate the upbringing of living landscapes are
highlighted as instruments of mediation and criticism.
These spaces of action, dialogues and evaluation have generated in the
community attitudes against the urban dynamics of "badly created
landscapes" that deteriorate the habitat in rural areas. The actions and
approaches between academy-community have awakened the desire to
promote and strengthen local affective bonds, to preserve their cultural
dimension, to foster spaces of exchange and communication and to
investigate in the system of relations of landscapes that safeguard protected
areas, conservation and imminent intervention.