I was part of a multidisciplinary team that designed a proposal to participate in a public contest to reverse a multidimensional crisis of territorial organization in Quito, Ecuador, through an intervention in its public space.

Three main objectives needed to be accomplished: 

1. Generate a proposal for urban development where citizens are integrated, so that they think and express their demands. Consequently, a proposal is foreseen that includes a participatory, transparent, and socialized process.

2. Promote an integral proposal of urban policy, with clear and specific guidelines that are the result of a comprehensive vision of the problem through urban planning, urban design, and project planning.

3. Create a proposal that is based on public space as a driver of the urban development, urbanization as a producer of significant changes, articulation with the different modes of transport and mobility (multimodal system), urban functions (commerce, administration, housing, among others), services (education , health, housing, etc.), the surrounding public spaces (squares, parks) and infrastructure (electrical energy, drinking water, solid waste and regional and local roads system).

Team: Elisa Bernal, Joel Lopez, Lis Molina, Natalia Alvarez (Architects), Adriana Abril (Lawyer), Veronica Farfan (Anthropologist), Karina Rivera (Historian), Luis Garcia (Design Researcher)

Alexandra Kennedy and Feliu Vega supported this project as expert advisors.

And the endorsement of Llactalab Sustainable Cities (Research Department), Fedimetal, and Mujeres en Bici.

*This project was developed in Spanish. I hope to have an English translation soon.

Thank you for your patience.