Architecture and Desing
from Lima/Peru & Tijuana/Mexico

Excercises of growth without design nevertheless results in organizational structures through processes of urban sedimentation in time—settlement, coagulation, and consolidation, all common patterns in “informal” housing conditions generated by poverty in many parts of Latin America. In my view, such patterns occur equally in housing, commerce, and transport, creating a network of microurbanisms that linked together makeup the “informal” city. A city of microurbanisms is constructed of units that reduce down, from near chaotic complexity, to the scale of one single individual. A person can carry his home, business and transport on the body; several individuals create micro-organizations that, outside of legal structures, consolidate over time into complex systems creating the new urban matter of physical and social infrastructure.

Project: SlowTrans Anyang (Korea) - For Anyang Public Art Project 2010 (APAP2010)

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Mobile Planting Station Round 2

MPS is a satellite caravan that reaches out to different neighborhoods around the park, trying to activate the local residents in contributing (plant by plant) to our community garden in Open House. The Community Garden was our response to the informal farming witnessed throughout Anyang. Our “mobile” planting is a co-opt of gardening strategies already in place in households throughout the city, from traditional hanoks to the contemporary beast the ‘apatu’ and every type of structure in between. 

Rather than shock-and-awe local communities, MPS is designed for a slower, more organic, one-on-one engagement with individuals in our surrounding areas. We go to the people first and ask them a single question: Would you like to plant?

From there, we begin our conversations about gardening, advice on planting, soil types, community participation, Open House …

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