Methodology

How we build with communities

Our practice combines participatory action research, territorial planning and critical pedagogy.

"The community is not the object of the intervention: it is the subject of its own transformation."

We start from the conviction that the knowledge needed to transform a territory already exists in the people who inhabit it. Our role is to facilitate it, articulate it and support it with technical capacities that strengthen what is already there.

We always work in medium- and long-term processes, not one-off interventions. This allows us to build trust and guarantee sustainability.

Entering the territory
Participatory diagnosis
Co-design of solutions
Supported implementation
Evaluation and learning

Our work, step by step

What runs through all our work

Cross-cutting approaches

Gender approach
We recognize that territory carries gender marks, and we work to make those inequalities visible and transform them.
Ethnic approach
The city is diverse. Our processes recognize and respect the cultural identities of Afro-descendant, Indigenous and urban peasant communities.
Environmental approach
Territory is also ecological. We integrate the relationship with the environment into community planning and design.

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