Abstract

RENGIFO, Reynaldo Aparicio et al. Fruit and vegetables stand in marketplaces: from community design to tactical urbanism. Rev. Arquit. (Bogotá) [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.1, pp.98-112.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 1657-0308.  https://doi.org/10.14718/revarq.2023.25.3762.

Food markets in Colombia are recognized as the meeting place between rural and urban areas. Historically, the activity of shopping has allowed maintaining the interaction between citizens and farmers through informal traders, who carry out their economic activities under deplorable conditions in their workspace. In this order of ideas, the objective of this study was to establish the guidelines to analyze and improve the design of fruit and vegetable stands, as a measure to dignify the working conditions of informal commerce in the supply market of Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The research proposes the development of a community design methodology for the fruit and vegetables stands of seven merchants of the Central Callen/ of Palmira through three components: 1) in situ research of the material culture, 2) community design and 3) tactical urbanism with the production of furniture, to evaluate the experience. The methodology succeeded in establishinga meeting point between the scientific knowledge of an interdisciplinary work team and the popular knowledge of informal vendors, thus generating a proposal with potential replicability in other Latin American markets.

Keywords : community participation; fruit and vegetables stands; market-place; street vendors; tactical urbanism.

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