Citizen science on participatory housing and urban improvement: Servicio socio-habitacional: mejor…

SDG(s)

Sustainable Development Goal(s)

4Quality education

7Affordable and clean energy

11Sustainable cities and communities

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Type of project

Contributory project: It is designed by members of the scientific community, and citizens participate in data collection. Collaborative project: Citizens participate in data collection and analysis. Co-created project: Citizens participate in all stages of the scientific process.

Overall goal

Collaboratively identify the housing and urban conditions with which the communities of low-income settlements in Córdoba live to jointly build improvement solutions following sustainability parameters.

Specific goals

Carry out precise and comprehensive urban housing analyses to learn about the housing, urban, and environmental conditions present in the low-income settlements of the city of Córdoba and the zone of influence.  Collaboratively propose improvement solutions for these conditions and the implementation of bioclimatic design and energy efficiency strategies, based on the perceptions, knowledge, resources, and abilities of the community present in the territories. Develop awareness, training, and appropriate technical support strategies to promote community consolidation and the improvement of environmental quality and life in settlements. Identify guidelines that can be used in the design and management of housing integration policies.

Description of citizen participation

The communities of the low-income neighborhoods actively participate in the entire process along with students, teachers, and researchers involved. Participants work together in planning activities to be implemented per semester in the survey and analysis of the existing socio-urban, environmental, and housing conditions. They also work in the subsequent instances of reflection on the findings and possible solutions, the activities for the monitoring and assessment of the agreed work plans, and the processes of self-construction and social production of the habitat to carry out the improvements and presentation of results. At the same time, citizens have influence over different community activities, such as training workshops, technological training, and design/improvement. Finally, they provide their own (economic, material, organizational, human, etc.) resources to achieve the agreed tasks.

Time Frame

2004 - present.

Project leaders

Daniela Gargantini, AVE, CEVE/CONICET and Catholic University of Córdoba (UCC), dmgargantini@gmail.com Ludmila Garbellotto, UCC, nonprofit organizations Techo and Surcos, lgarbellotto5@gmail.com María Cerrezuela, AVE, CEVE/CONICET and UCC, mariacerrezuela@gmail.com María Paz Sánchez Amono, AVE, CEVE/CONICET and foundation Fundación para el Desarrollo Sustentable, bioclimaticdesign.ceve@gmail.com Halimi Sulaiman, AVE, CEVE/CONICET and Fundación para el Desarrollo Sustentable, bioclimaticdesign.ceve@gmail.com Lautaro Oga Martínez, AVE, CEVE/CONICET y Fundación para el Desarrollo Sustentable, bioclimaticdesign.ceve@gmail.com