Informal Network

Informal Network: A urban strategy for embracing difference and otherness in Bogota

Stubbs, Robby (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Mejia Hernandez, J.A. (mentor)
Koskamp, G. (mentor)
Altes Arlandis, A. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

2019-07-05

Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the following research has moved away from the ‘designing for’ informality, and more towards ‘designing through’ informality. Incorporating the elements that have been observed in the interaction between informal actors and city infrastructure into the finished, non-prescriptive and multi-functional city interventions. Non-prescriptive, here, means spaces that are sensitive to the movement and way of living of its users. By incorporating that knowledge, this proposal hopes to create spaces of increased number of opportunities and affordances, and as such, to give voice to the informal, marginalized actors in the city, that are often dismissed and excluded.

Informal
otherness
difference
performance
appropriation
bamboo
network
acupuncture
Teusaquillo
Bogota
mobility
temporal
positioning
participatory
community-led developments
self-built
recycling
workshop
flexible
commons
regeneration

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Student theses

master thesis

© 2019 Robby Stubbs