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CASA - Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amaz贸nicas
The research project develops a participatory process to co-produce sustainable spatialities and promote alternative livelihoods systems in the Amazonas.
7 June 2018
The research project Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amaz贸nicas (CASA), coordinated by BUDD alumna Bel茅n Desmaison (PUCP), with the involvement of DPU鈥檚 Camillo Boano and Giovanna Astolfo, develops a participatory process with local communities, local authorities and the national government to co-produce sustainable spatialities and promote alternative livelihoods systems in the Amazonas, starting from local technologies and knowledges. The project aims to create evidence-based methodology for a more participatory implementation process of preventive relocations. The project looks at the city of Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, where a massive relocation process of around 16,000 people living in the flood-prone low-district of Bel茅n is undergoing amid great difficulties and resistance. The government-led relocation has been implemented following a DRM policy released in 2011 and as part of the national programme 鈥淧rograma Nuestras Ciudades鈥�; despite many positive pioneering aspects, the decision-making process was centralised and the project poorly articulated, failing to capture the socio-spatial complexity of the context. Particularly, the relocation threatens the traditional spatial organisation of Amazon鈥檚 communities, negatively impacting the livelihoods system.
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- Staff
Development Planning Unit: Camillo Boano & Giovanna Astolfo (co-investigators);
Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤 : (co-investigator and coordinator); Kleber Espinoza (research assistant); Urphy V谩squez (co-investigator); Karina Casta帽eda (co-investigator)
- Outputs
Working Papers
鈥�Home as Catalyst for Resilience: settlement relocation in the Amazon rainforest. Literature review鈥�. (revised Dec 2017)
Policy Briefs
Videos
Blogs, interviews & conferences
鈥溾�� By Giovanna Astolfo, on 3 August 2017.
鈥溾�� Interview to Camillo Boano.
"" 09 October 2017, Lima.
"" 03 October 2017, Lima
News
DPU co-coordinated project wins Water Research Prize at the 2018 World Architecture Festival
Articles
DESMAISON, B.; BOANO, C.; ASTOLFO, G. (2018). CASA [Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amaz贸nicas]: desaf铆os y oportunidades para la sostenibilidad de los proyectos de reasentamiento poblacional preventivo en la Amazon铆a Peruana. Medio Ambiente y Urbanizaci贸n (IIED-AL), (88), Available at:
DESMAISON, B.; VASQUEZ, U.; ESPINOZA, K. (2018). Medios de vida, tecnolog铆as apropiadas y su integraci贸n con los planes de desarrollo urbano como requisitos indispensables para la sostenibilidad de los proyectos de reasentamiento poblacional: el caso de la Nueva Ciudad de Bel茅n, Loreto, Per煤. Espacio y Desarrollo (PUCP), (31) (Forthcoming, will be available at: )
VASQUEZ, A. (2018). La Perspectiva de G茅nero: 驴Una consideraci贸n necesariapara comprender y transformar estructuras de desigualdad en el contexto del cambio clim谩tico? Aportes de la iniciativa Ciudades Resilientes al Clima en Am茅rica Latina. Medio Ambiente y Urbanizaci贸n, (88), Available at:
Desmaison, B., Boano, C. ., & Espinoza, K. (2021). Towards an Amazonian Urbanism: Collective Infrastructures of Care.听Contesti. Citt脿, Territori, Progetti,听1(1), 81鈥�96.听
Books
"CASA [Ciudades Auto-Sostenibles Amaz贸nicas]: generando Hogares" by Belen Desmaison (editor)
"Conviviendo en la Amazon铆a en el siglo XXI: Gu铆a de Arquitectura y Dise帽o Urbano para la Selva Baja" by Belen Desmaison (editor)
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