To face current sustainability challenges, we need to continue building, sharing, and applying the best possible knowledge to continue collaboratively developing solutions that allow us to improve how we live on our planet. In this, universities and other educational institutions have a crucial role in research, teaching, and service within the academic community and beyond. In this role, educational institutions also contribute to building and strengthening technical and relational human capabilities. It enables people to understand rationally better and emotionally connect more deeply with sustainability challenges and the diverse ways to continue solving them. In strengthening capabilities to respond to sustainability challenges, the contribution of a diverse range of areas of knowledge is required in the learning dynamics. Some areas of expertise that have been known for their human-centered approach to innovation processes4, such as architecture and design, play a significant part in the search for ideas that propose new ways to meet the challenges of sustainability while promoting well-being for people and other life forms and the environment. From architecture and design, the range of possibilities to develop ideas is broad, ranging from the proposal of new products, buildings, spaces, services and processes to recent activities and lifestyles.
In recent years, urban design development has been an important topic in Latin American cities such as Medellín due to the transformation of their urban spaces, along with the new methods used to evaluate the social, morphological, and, in some cases, economic impacts that have been brought about by the urban development projects. When inquiring about the development process and impact of urban studies, and the inhabitants’ relation to a transformed space, it is important to establish the context within which images, drawings, and photographs are analyzed, using graphical approaches triangulated with other research methods to define comparative criteria. In this article, we reflect on the expanded use of various research tools for the analysis of urban transformation, taking with reference the experience lived by a group of researchers in two Latin American cities. From this, it is intended to understand how they work and how they allow us to understand the urban transformation of these cities, the data obtained, and the vision of the researchers.
Los imaginarios del archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina han estado comúnmente reducidos a la industria hotelera y al turismo, invisibilizando una serie de tradiciones, realidades, emociones, percepciones y vivencias diarias de los pobladores de este territorio. Ante este acallamiento, se unen las voces de los escritores de las islas para permitir, a partir de su apuesta poética, tejer una visión más polifónica y menos estática. Se estudiaron cuatro relatos de los escritores Lenito Robinson–Bent y Juan Ramírez Dawkins, de la isla de Providencia, Colombia, con el propósito de evidenciar los imaginarios del archipiélago emanados desde las propias islas. Para esto se realizó una caracterización del Caribe, un rastreo de los autores del archipiélago y finalmente el análisis de los cuentos de los autores seleccionados.
The quality of an urban space significantly influences the habitability of a city. In an era where buildings are becoming more and more "intelligent", outdoor space needs to evolve to make it more welcoming and to allow it to be shared and appropriate, capable of expanding opportunities and functionality for the inhabitant who lives in it. In this context the COGITO project, is exploring ways to extend the cognitive logic typical of intelligent buildings to the urban space. We propose to appropriate the model developed in COGITO and apply it in a case study of the city of Medellin.
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