Abstract

CUARTAS, Coppelia Herrán. To belong, much more than to inhabit a space. Emerging tensions after the relocation to formal housing of residents of the Juan Bobo's housing consolidation in Medellín, Antioquia (2017-2019). Rev. Ciudades Estados Política [online]. 2020, vol.7, n.2, pp.31-42.  Epub Dec 14, 2021. ISSN 2462-9103.

This research is related with the territorial intervention model used by the 2004-2011 administrations when they sought to connect the informal settlements to the formal dynamics of Medellin. With the construction of great architectural works in the sectors with the lowest quality of life and human development indexes (northern, central-eastern and central-western zones), the focus was addressed to the housing consolidation in the Juan Bobo gully, as an emblematic architectural project of the city, due to the generation of new housing in the gully’s basin, which benefited 1240 people, relocated in the same neighborhood or over the same site where their old homes were.

The ethnographic method was used to study in depth the uses and meaning that the inhabitants give to their new home, in order to learn about the encounters and misunderstandings associated with the phenomenon of appropriating and belonging to a city that sought to increase quality by providing new housing.

From (1) the assumptions which founded the conception behind this consolidation, together with the way the families had to respond living in formal housing and (2) the changes that the project’s managers expected with the transformation of the sector, it is possible to verify that there are alternative ways in which people adapt the space, according to their aspirations, at the same time that they give it a meaning in concordance with them, conceiving the space again, while they produce their own spatialities.

Keywords : Lived space; inhabit; uses and appropriations and informal housing.

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