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Arana, M M and Wittek, R P M (2016) Community resilience: Sustained cooperation and space usage in collective housing. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 764-74.
De Carli, B (2016) Micro-resilience and justice: Co-producing narratives of change. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 775-88.
- Type: Journal Article
- Keywords: informal settlements; participation; self-organizing; social rights; shelter; bottom-up approaches; housing; adaptation; action research; resilience; urban regeneration; politics; construction & building technology; human rights; urban renewal
- ISBN/ISSN: 0961-3218
- URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2016.1213523
- Abstract:
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots' experiences of self-organizing to challenge the uneven distribution of resources and opportunities in cities. This paper examines the strategies of low-income dwellers living in squatted buildings in SAo Paulo, Brazil, and asks how resilience narratives can help one understand the agency of these micro-strategies across multiple scales. The city centre of SAo Paulo is a key site for housing movements to challenge spatial injustice in Brazil. In a context where housing for low-income groups is in short supply and characterized by highly skewed social and spatial distribution, squatted buildings have emerged since the 1990s as laboratories for alternative ways of producing the city. The paper draws from an action-research project investigating such occupations in SAo Paulo. Firstly, it explores the practices of individual and groups inhabiting a building known as OcupacAo Marconi, focusing on its social production as a device for co-producing local resilience from the micro-scale. Secondly, it reflects on which forms of knowledge production might allow for putting such practices into focus, interrogating participatory action research as a means to facilitate resilience at scale.;Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots' experiences of self-organizing to challenge the uneven distribution of resources and opportunities in cities. This paper examines the strategies of low-income dwellers living in squatted buildings in São Paulo, Brazil, and asks how resilience narratives can help one understand the agency of these micro-strategies across multiple scales. The city centre of São Paulo is a key site for housing movements to challenge spatial injustice in Brazil. In a context where housing for low-income groups is in short supply and characterized by highly skewed social and spatial distribution, squatted buildings have emerged since the 1990s as laboratories for alternative ways of producing the city. The paper draws from an action-research project investigating such occupations in São Paulo. Firstly, it explores the practices of individual and groups inhabiting a building known as Ocupação Marconi, focusing on its social production as a device for co-producing local resilience from the micro-scale. Secondly, it reflects on which forms of knowledge production might allow for putting such practices into focus, interrogating participatory action research as a means to facilitate resilience at scale.; Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots' experiences of self-organizing to challenge the uneven distribution of resources and opportunities in cities. This paper examines the strategies of low-income dwellers living in squatted buildings in São Paulo, Brazil, and asks how resilience narratives can help one understand the agency of these micro-strategies across multiple scales. The city centre of São Paulo is a key site for housing movements to challenge spatial injustice in Brazil. In a context where housing for low-income groups is in short supply and characterized by highly skewed social and spatial distribution, squatted buildings have emerged since the 1990s as laboratories for alternative ways of producing the city. The paper draws from an action-research project investigating such occupations in São Paulo. Firstly, it explores the practices of individual and groups inhabiting a building known as Ocupação Marconi, focusing on its social production as a device for co-producing local resilience from the micro-scale. Secondly, it reflects on which forms of knowledge production might allow for putting such practices into focus, interrogating participatory action research as a means to facilitate resilience at scale.;
Fagan-Watson, B and Burchell, K (2016) Heatwave planning: Community involvement in co-producing resilience. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 754-63.
Gibson-Graham, J K, Hill, A and Law, L (2016) Re-embedding economies in ecologies: Resilience building in more than human communities. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 703-16.
Krzywoszynska, A, Buckley, A, Birch, H, Watson, M, Chiles, P, Mawyin, J, Holmes, H and Gregson, N (2016) Co-producing energy futures: Impacts of participatory modelling. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 804-15.
Petrescu, D, Petcou, C and Baibarac, C (2016) Co-producing commons-based resilience: Lessons from R-urban. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 717-36.
Stevenson, F, Baborska-Narozny, M and Chatterton, P (2016) Resilience, redundancy and low-carbon living: Co-producing individual and community learning. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 789-803.
Stollmann, J (2016) Neighbourhood resilience in mass housing: Co-production via research-by-design. Building Research & Information, 44(07), 737-53.