RETHINKING INFORMALITY: Strategies of Urban Space Co-Production

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This allows the identification of the multiplicity of actors, focal points in alliances and decision-making, and the formal capacities that actually influence the territorial planning process.

Being able to recognize and understand diverse territorial actors, with special attention to the relationships among them, is key in facilitating the creation of articulations that will potentially solve structural problems. Additionally, the aim is to provide coproduction strategies and methodologies within the territory through the needs and projections of the people that live within it day to day. As a whole, this creates dialogue with a city model that needs to be more inclusive and coherent In order to truly understand the territory and its challenges, it is necessary to understand that the state and the community are not wholly homogenous entities; there is a dynamic of relationships that is intensely diverse. With this in mind, the workshop proposes an analysis of actors, instances and instruments.

The identified actors were grouped as follows:

CO - PRODUCTION

1. Articulate

Community Actors

This actor is made up of the social organizations that, through the community, have acted in terms of themes, needs and proposals around day to day realities. Some are representatives within official processes, such as the Community Action Committees (JAC) and the Local Action Committees (JAL), while others are consolidated around thematic objectives; the Environmental and the Neighborhood Emergency Committees. Another group, with a much stronger dynamic, includes groups that present territorial realities; Thematic Work Committee, Victims and Displaced Population Committee and the Housing and Public Works Committee. The latter also deals with proposals and solutions, through the assertion of rights, such as the formulation of proposals and possibilities of articulations, dialogue and negotiations with different actors. These committees are also part of a city-wide program, the Inter-neighborhood Committee, which accompanies and strengthens them, through spaces for the consolidation of popular proposals.

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