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Despite being in the midst of the pandemic, for more than a month, more than 62 participants working from 13 different countries met in the co-presence of the digital space to tackle a common challenge: how to address research-based design to have an impact in the city decision-making process inspired by popular education. Participants undertook a co-creation process to frame the inquiry on Living Heritage based on four analytical axes: systems of care, memory, and migrations, landscapes of recycling and community connections, and communication.

The聽main site of inquiry, Moravia, has been the laboratory of spatial interventions and has endured long-term eviction threats. During the engagement, participants wanted to grasp the complexities and contradictions of urban transformations to rethink different urban futures for Moravia through a living heritage approach as a way to respond to those threats. The notion of Living heritage was conceived as a tool to rethink urban futures, as such, the Atlas also presents intervention formulated from our multiple understandings of Moravia, especially from those who inhabit the neighbourhood

Although聽the co-creation occurred remotely, new affective cartographies were generated, shaped by the participants鈥� commitment, enthusiasm, and dedication in spite of their different personal situations and locations. The type of design based research cultivated in the co-creation process was based on the dialogue of knowledge(s), intergenerational learning, and storytelling to promote collective imagination to advance towards spatial justice.

The output of this work was condensed in an Living Heritage Atlas. Catalina Ortiz, the leader of the process explains that an聽鈥淎tlas contributes to create realities, allow us to make visible certain territories and to mobilize imagined geographies. We portrayed some practices of living heritage that deserve to be protected and departing from them we propose strategies of socio-spatial interventions that enable us to tell another story of Moravia to the city鈥�.聽聽

The results of the co-creation process were presented in a launch event on June 5^th聽where the Atlas and a new song produced was presented to the public. Key guests were from Medellin Local Government, the Global Platform of the Right to the City and UN Habitat. Particularly, UN habitat Director for Latin American and the Caribbean, Elkin Velasquez, praised the collective work to be inspiring for the region as reported by the聽聽The Atlas content will be used as part of the key inputs to the newly created聽city plan 'the Board to negotiate Moravia's聽future'.

You can download the Atlas聽.

You can listen聽to the song 鈥淎 dream of dignity鈥澛�