Undressing the Desert
Restoring environmental justice regarding clandestine landfills in Alto Hospicio and Iquique, for human and more-than-human entities by reshaping urban-desert imaginaries through activism.
S.S. Prikanowski (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
V Munoz Sanz – Mentor (TU Delft - Urban Design)
RJ Kleinhans – Mentor (TU Delft - Urban Studies)
E.J. van der Zaag – Graduation committee member
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Abstract
The graduation project seeks to investigate how activism driven reshaping of urbandesert imaginaries can help to restore environmental justice for human and morethanhuman entities in Iquique and Alto Hospicio, Chile, regarding clandestine landfills. It examines how urban-desert imaginaries, referring to the perceptions of desert landscapes in relation to urbanization and related activities, of the past and present enable the proliferation of clandestine landfills as well as how activist efforts are reshaping these imaginaries. Through fieldwork, expert interviews, policy review and secondary sources a pattern language to restore environmental justice damaged by textile waste accumulation in the desert has been developed outlining actions and strategies to be executed by different stakeholders from the civic, public and private domain. Finally, the patterns with spatial implications have been mapped onto the territory of Iquique and Alto Hospicio to demonstrate the application of the pattern language by example.