Socio-Spatial Governmentality in Costa Rica
City building strategy
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City building strategy, Curridabat, Costa Rica
The image shows 1 of the 21 neighborhoods with intervention proposals built through participatory processes. Sweet City aims to consolidate natural conservation as an urban activity through the increase in the number and variety of pollinizers and through the reintegration of flora to stimulate pollinizing, and the creation of new bio diverse corridors. This will not only bring beauty and amenity for the people of Curridabat, but will also bring better performing conditions pollinizing activates.
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City building strategy, Curridabat, Costa Rica
The tools applied to attain our objectives range from new channels of communication and interacting with the community-workshops, charrettes, education campaigns, social capital points, co-building, co-planting and co-design – to the design and launching of new technology (apps and mapping exercises) that supply immediate and place-based information every day. Citizens receive benefits (goods and services) in exchange for their positive actions and good practices for the environment and society.
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LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Latin America prize handover ceremony, San José
Winner of a LafargeHolcim Awards Acknowledgement 2017 for City building strategy, Curridabat, Costa Rica (l-r): Erick Calderón Acuña, Tándem Arquitectura, San José, Costa Rica; Irene García Brenes and Edgar Mora Altamirano, Municipality Curridabat, Curridabat, Costa Rica.
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Awards Acknowledgement prize 2017–2018 Latin America
Ecological and social re-imagining of the city of Curridabat in Costa Rica converge to make its urban space a better habitat for its citizens – flora, fauna, and humans.
By Alvin Soto Bolaños, Erick Calderón Acuña - Tándem Arquitectura, San José, Costa Rica; Irene García Brenes - Municipality Curridabat, Curridabat, Costa Rica; Antonio Salas - Yuso Proyectos, San José, Costa Rica; Edgar Mora Altamirano - City of Curridabat, Curridabat, Costa Rica
Ideas: Urban Requalification
A project-as-process, the plan for an eastern suburb of San José envisions the city in coexistence with its flora and fauna. The project overlays several networks of interventions.
Together, the discrete layers reconfigure the habitat of flora, fauna, and human beings as “citizens” of Curridabat.