ALAMAR, CUBA

A new city built built by its inhabitants

Today Alamar has a population of about 100,000. In 2006 with the ogino:knauss collective we visited the place realising a work for the La Habana Art Biennial. This work resulted in a film, inaugurating the Re-centering Periphery project. Doble Forza documents everyday life occurring in public space between repetitive and anonymous tenements, transforming and appropriating the huge empty lots left by an unfinished urbanization, and testimonies advantages and defects of the participative construction process. It mixes the inhabitant’s voices with impressions captured drifting in the urban landscape.

12 Mar , 2008 - Category:

alamar · cuba · housing · la habana · microbrigadas · self-led construction

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La Habana Int/Ext photographic book

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