Descrizione del progetto
Indagine sulle pratiche maya per lo sviluppo urbano sostenibile
Nella regione urbana di Mérida, in Messico, la debolezza delle politiche urbanistiche e la progettazione urbana globalizzata hanno causato una rapida urbanizzazione insostenibile. Il progetto REMIND, finanziato dall’UE, concentrerà l’attenzione sulle forme e sulle pratiche urbane indigene con l’obiettivo di promuovere uno sviluppo urbano sostenibile a Mérida. Per raggiungere lo scopo, indagherà come attuare pratiche indigene maya nei processi di sviluppo urbano della regione. REMIND utilizzerà l’archeologia applicata per adattare i concetti di resilienza urbana all’analisi di prove materiali sulle forme urbane nel lungo termine. Inoltre, produrrà una mappa micro-morfologica dei centri urbani nel corso del tempo, in un sistema informatico storico-geografico, per individuare e confrontare schemi spaziali delle forme urbane.
Obiettivo
REMIND strives to enhance the appreciation of indigenous urban form and practices that can benefit sustainable urban development. The Urban Region of Merida (URM), Mexico, experiences unsustainable rapid urbanisation. Weak urban planning policies and globalised urban design generate problematic urban patterns that marginalise the relevance of precolonial Maya rural-urban integration, indigeneity persistent in current urban life, and vernacular urban design. In contrast, URM accommodated urban centres for >2,000 years through social-ecological pressures and societal transitions. To envision regionally appropriate sustainable urban planning and design requires understanding how urban form adapted over the long-term. Thus REMIND asks:
How can indigenous Maya practices be applied in urban development processes to substantiate a reimagination of urban space that promotes the future sustainability of Mérida?
To address this question, REMIND will first adapt urban resilience concepts for the analysis of material evidence on urban form over the long-term, enabling an actionable ‘applied archaeology of indigenous urban practice' serving regional development. Next, through micro-morphological mapping of urban centres through time in a historical Geographical Information System (HGIS), spatial patterns of urban form will be identified, characterised, and compared. This fundamental research will structure and be guided by two cross-sectoral co-productive capacity building workshops, which match multidisciplinary academic expertise to institutional stakeholders in URM’s sustainable development and heritage to generate leverage for alternative approaches to urban planning and design. Together, participants will ultimately co-create reimaginative ‘indigenous urban development principles’ in response to site-based urban development challenges that promote sustainability and equitability in urban growth.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-GF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - Global FellowshipsCoordinatore
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgio