by Jota Samper and Oscar Grauer
This was an international collaboration between MIT School of Architecture + Planning and three universities in Bogotá, Colombia: the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad de Los Andes and the Universidad de la Salle to envision, plan, and design prototypical criteria and design solutions as relevant proposals for decision makers, the community, institutions and other stakeholders around issues of the forma informal conflict in the area of the Parque Tercer Milenio in Bogotá, Colombia.
The workshop focused on the Parque Tercer Milenio, a large public space built during Mayor Peñalosa’s citywide revitalization plan. This space resulted from the eradication of an extremely dangerous inner-city informal settlement whose residents had occupied in a decaying late 19th - early 20th Century district, located between the historic district of Bogotá, and vacant/underutilized industrial land.
