Quinta Monroy (Alejandro Aravena/Elemental)
Quinta Monroy is a participatory social housing project in Iquique, Chile, led by Alejandro Aravena's firm Elemental, which built adaptable 'half-houses' that families could complete themselves over time.
The participatory housing initiative in Iquique, Chile, led by Alejandro Aravena's firm Elemental, embodying the principle that relationships within the present can create stabilizing eddies within time's current: the design process prioritized building community relationships and providing families with adaptable 'half-houses' they could complete incrementally over time, acknowledging economic flux and empowering residents' agency alongside delivering the physical structures.
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Books and references
- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · discussed together in section 016
Examples
- Project Cybersyn · discussed together in section 016
Methods
- Sense-Making Methodology (Brenda Dervin) · discussed together in section 016
In the framework
- Design's Frontier
- Dialogue · element
In the book
- Chapter 2, section 016 · Navigating the Present: The Heraclitean River
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