About
Cartagena water is a project created under the framework of the 32nd International Cartagena Workshop: Coastal Resilience, developed between June 30th and Juli 21st in the city of Cartagena, Colombia. During these 3 weeks, a group of international and interdisciplinary students developed a research project that led to a series of interventions in different spots of the city, mainly answering to the question of resilience in the vulnerable areas of its extension.
The project was born from the observation of diverse phenomena that occurred in various, often separated, neighborhoods in the city in which the water (seen in different bodies) is perceived by the populations as a limit, mainly physical. Nevertheless, as we dug deeper into the communities we studied, we understood the limit went far beyond the physical spectrum, invading every aspect of the life of this communities: they saw the limit as social, economic, temporal, administrative, gender-guided, etc.
In this blog, we record our observation process, that led us to a much deeper understanding of the contexts we were working on, as well as led us to the key insights that guided our future projects.
The project was born from the observation of diverse phenomena that occurred in various, often separated, neighborhoods in the city in which the water (seen in different bodies) is perceived by the populations as a limit, mainly physical. Nevertheless, as we dug deeper into the communities we studied, we understood the limit went far beyond the physical spectrum, invading every aspect of the life of this communities: they saw the limit as social, economic, temporal, administrative, gender-guided, etc.
In this blog, we record our observation process, that led us to a much deeper understanding of the contexts we were working on, as well as led us to the key insights that guided our future projects.