Co-producing Urban Spaces – Collaborative Methods Towards an Insurgent Urbanism

How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Canedo analyses practices that arise from the protagonism of marginalized communities and the accumulative knowledge of academic and non-academic actors. This approach sees architects, urbanists, and other city-building professionals as co-producers of space that contribute to transforming society by co-developing experiences through the interaction with a complex set of actors aiming to create mutual learning environments. From a methodological perspective based on transdisciplinary experiences, she provides tools that can be used in interdisciplinary fields of study

This book explores collaborative design and building practices through a political lens. By examining these practices within historically marginalised communities, it proposes different methods of engaging, interacting and co-creating spaces with these groups. By engaging marginalised communities directly in the design process, these practices reject top-down models and instead foster co-production, allowing for more inclusive, just and sustainable urban environments. This approach challenges the logic of current adaptation strategies, which, as Escobar warns, are often ‘defuturing’ and deprive future generations of viable conditions for existence.

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