Co-Producing Urban Spaces: Collaborative Methods Towards an Insurgent Urbanism

How can collaborative methods of planning and design act as tools to develop insurgent urbanism? Juliana Canedo analyses practices that arise from the protagonism of marginalized communities and the accumulative knowledge of academic and non-academic actors. This approach sees architects, urbanists, and other city-building professionals as co-producers of space that contribute to transforming society by co-developing experiences through the interaction with a complex set of actors aiming to create mutual learning environments. From a methodological perspective based on transdisciplinary experiences, she provides tools that can be used in interdisciplinary fields of study.

Juliana Canedo, born in 1981, work as a senior researcher and lecturer at the Habitat Unit at Technische Universität Berlin. The architect and urbanist did her doctorate at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with a research stay at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. She has more than 15 years of experience of collaborative and participatory design and planning, especially working in favelas, squats and with migrant communities in Brazil and Germany. Her research focuses on insurgent practices and collaborative design and on the critical debate of the role of city-building professionals.