CITY FRAGMENTS, Bogotá; re-shaping the city from mobility infrastructure

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political territories through any urban project build functional and social mixité ” (Secchi, 2006) “Urbanism no longer is or has to be the most solemn of our decisions; urbanism can lighten up, become a Gay Science – Lite Urbanism... What if we redefine our relationship with the city not as its makers but as its mere subjects, as its supporters?” (Koolhaas, 1994)

02 Conceptual Framework

Unresolved narratives and open systems (Urbanism-Urban project-Architecture) What is next? What if?

“Urbanism cannot impact inequality or poverty directly, but it rather governs those devices that are aimed to produce and reproduce inequality and poverty”(Secchi 2012)

“...it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries,” (Koolhaas, 1994) “incomplete form is a basic principle in the good conduct of social life in general...we are obliged to interpret silences or fragments, to make sense of incomplete expression” (Sennett, 2012)

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