Description du projet
Les innovations sociales s’attaquent à la pauvreté
L’innovation sociale en architecture, art et conception est utilisée par des collectifs pour aider les communautés pauvres des hémisphères sud et nord en innovant leur environnement matériel. Les innovations sociales ont joué un rôle de plus en plus important aux côtés des politiques sociales mondiales et nationales. Cependant, elles sont souvent décontextualisées et isolées des politiques urbaines et culturelles à l’origine de la pauvreté. Le projet SURBANIN, financé par l’UE, permettra de mieux comprendre comment les innovations émergent et se répandent au niveau mondial, comment elles sont appliquées localement et quel est leur impact. Le projet comparera les bidonvilles en Colombie et les sans‑abri en République tchèque, en se concentrant sur une série d’innovations sociales hétérogènes telles que les téléphériques en Colombie et les innovations de conception dans les campements de sans‑abri des villes tchèques.
Objectif
The SURBANIN project explores the global operation of social innovations that tackle urban poverty through architecture, art or design (AAD). Various schools, collectives and studios use AAD to help poor communities of the global South through innovating their material environment, but this trend is visible in the global North, too. Social innovations thus have played an increasingly important role alongside more established global and national social policies. However, regardless of their positive or negative impacts, they are very often locally decontextualised and isolated from the urban and cultural politics that make poverty. As a result, such innovations may not eliminate poverty, but rather redesign it. The project will compare “slums” in Colombia and homelessness in Czechia to establish a novel understanding of how innovations globally emerge and travel, how they are locally implemented and with what impact. Rather than fully embracing or rejecting AAD innovations, the project inquires why they are adopted and whether the context of adoption determines their outcomes. The research for this project, having been undertaken first by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and then by the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, will focus on a number of heterogeneous social innovations: from cable cars and macro-murals in cities of Colombia to small-scale architectonic improvements and design innovations in homeless encampments in cities of Czechia. Combining cultural anthropology and its study of everyday life with the urban-sociological and urban-geographical emphasis on urban political economy, and with urban planning’s interest in the development and design of urban environment, the project addresses a number of EU and the United Nations priorities and goals and will provide crucial knowledge to develop new strategies and tools for tackling urban poverty in the contemporary world.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
10117 Berlin
Allemagne