Anne Kurjenoja
Anne Kurjenoja
Bottom-up action emerging from the community
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Mission
Hilando el Territorio proposes to be the framework for productive interaction between learning communities, municipal authorities and urban, peri-urban, ru-urban and rural communities in Puebla on territorial studies issues to develop critical analysis of existing problems in urban development. , rural and community to provide solutions that are socially, culturally, environmentally and economically viable with a local focus.
Vision
Hilando el Territorio is also perceived as a detonating nucleus for the interaction between the academy, municipal authorities and urban, peri-urban, ru-urban and rural communities on topics of socio-territorial studies, community development, public space, urban agriculture and climate change, to generate innovative proposals that are sensitive to the local context with a socially, economically, environmentally and culturally sustainable approach.
Narratives of the territory through textile graphics
The objective of the project is to implement community landscape laboratories in the rural towns of Cuetzalan del Progreso, through interaction with the traditional knowledge and vision of indigenous Nahua women to develop strategies for the conservation of local biodiversity and adaptation to climate change. This project is carried out in collaboration with the Departments of Architecture and Anthropology of the University of the Americas Puebla, the Tlalli Amealco Atelier, the Masehual Siuamej Mosenyolchicahuani Organization and co-participating partners. For more information on the field and research activities carried out, consult the blog.
Socio-territorial development, right to land and local, rural and indigenous identities
San Antonio Cacalotepec es una comunidad y pueblo originario perteneciente al municipio de San Andrés Cholula, México. Durante los últimos 10 años, esta pequeña comunidad rural ha vivido el voraz crecimiento inmobiliario y la pérdida del territorio rural. No sólo eso, también ha experimentado un cambio rapaz en las formas de percibir su paisaje biocultural desde la escala de la vivienda al espacio público. Este proyecto analiza los cambios morfológicos que ha experimentado en su entorno como consecuencia de la visión del desarrollo urbano neoliberal.
Para mayor información sobre el proyecto, consultar el blog.
Is the role of rural indigenous women recognized as landowners, builders, and guardians of natural resources? Eurocentric paradigms have shaped Mexican educational architecture and urbanism, but indigenous women have been a void in Mexico's architectural and urban history. Thus, within the framework of the decolonization of gender in architecture, urbanism, and environmentalism, the role of rural indigenous women, such as the Mexican Nahua, has to be revealed as active agents in collective land ownership and agriculture in spiritual connection with Tlaltipacnantzin, Mother Earth. In this nature-culture relationship, women have been the ones who have maintained "the cultural understanding of one's responsibilities toward the living, nonliving, and spiritual beings of the Earth and interdependent natural collectives" (McGregor 2008, p.606). Thus, this project studies co-collaboration methods to make architectural, territorial management and environmental processes inclusive in terms of gender, ethnicity and culture through projects with the participation of Nahua women's collectives from the Northern Highlands of Puebla, based on grassroots coworking strategies that aim at transformative, comprehensive, anti-colonial action with a gender focus from below, disconnected from hegemonic colonial cultural paradigms.
Líder del colectivo de mujeres del pueblo originario de San Antonio Cacalotepec.
Defensora del territorio y bordadora
Estudiante de Antropología
Departamento de Antropología
Universidad de las Américas Puebla