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Empowering voices

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.

Our mission and vision
 

Our projects

Cuetzalan, Mexico

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.

San Antonio Cacalotepec, Mexico

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.

Decolonizing gender

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.

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Dra. Anne K. Kurjenoja

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Profesora e investigadora

SNI nivel 1

InLab: Territorio y Artefacto Urbano

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Dra. En Ing. Melissa Schumacher

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Profesora e investigadora

SNI nivel 1

Departamento de Arquitectura

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

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Dra. Laura Romero

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Directora Académica

Profesora e investigadora

SNI nivel 1

Departamento de Antropología

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

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Dra. Barbara Pierpaoli

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Profesora e investigadora

Candidata SNI

Departamento de Arquitectura

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

Taller Tlalli Amealco

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Dra. Vivian Kadelbach

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Profesora e investigadora

Facultad de Economía y Negocios

Universidad Anáhuac México

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Andrea Galindo

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Estudiante de Antropología

Departamento de Antropología

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

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Sonia López Hernández

Líder del colectivo de mujeres del pueblo originario de San Antonio Cacalotepec.

Defensora del territorio y bordadora

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Sandra Iturriaga

Estudiante de Antropología

Departamento de Antropología

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

Colectivo de socixs

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Departamento de
Arquitectura

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Departamento de
Antropología

Tlalli Amealco

Taller Tlalli Amealco

Maseual Siuamej Mosenyolchicauani

Colectivo
Geonómada

Colectivo de mujeres del pueblo originario de San Antonio Cacalotepec

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