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Here I am Colombia: Iterative Heuristic Methodology for Symbolic Repair and Non-Repetition

Part 2 Project 2024
Natalia Aguilar Medina
Pontifical Xavierian University | Colombia
Here I Am Colombia aims to connect the country's violent reality and its collective memory through architecture. Recognizing 9,537,920 conflict victims, highlights the lack of systematic memory and reparation processes. The project proposes an iterative heuristic methodology, creating collective knowledge networks to build memory, promote reflection, and encourage open political debate through multiscalar interactions.

Variables:
1. Attractors: Distinctive elements symbolically repaired.
2. Agents: State entities overseeing symbolic reparation.
3. Interaction systems: Public space actions connecting users with their environment.

Interaction systems:
1.MicroOasis: Active user participation in memory pavilions.
2. MesoDevices: Transmitting information between media landscapes and users.
3. MacroCapacity: Encouraging public expression in discrete public spaces

The proposed intervention involves iterative temporality, consisting of events that consolidate memory points:
1. Zero: Recognition.
2. Adaptation: Diagnosis and analysis.
3. Urban Landscape: Design for introspection and discussion.
4. Skeleton: Architectural device design.
5. Skin: Victim participation in creating sense of identity.
6. Interaction footprint: Impact on public space promoting new memory attractors.

The intervention design involves phases from space recognition to creation of atractors, using public space for consolidation. A case study on Sandra Catalina Vásquez proposes an space intervention at Germania Park to enhance memory and symbolic reparation.


Tutor(s)
Maritza Beatriz Granados Manjarres
2024
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