Abstract
The development of the first center focused on harm reduction for heroin users in Colombia, used collaborative methodologies, to truly make it a community-based center. Using trigger actions in Arts, Design and Architecture, the project started with participatory workshops including different actors in the community: opioid consumers, peers, neighbors and the center employees. The process focused on designing the service of supervised consumption to end up designing the space where the services will be offered. The design team addressed this proposal under the principles of harm reduction, through a multi-scale strategy of trigger actions with different types of impact, to generate social inclusion for communities at risk of exclusion. These trigger actions are developed mainly with the existing resources of the territory, weaving and promising a more connected community. The methodology introduces the principles of ‘social justice design’, addressing (through design) the political issues concerning the regulations that affect these centers. This approach makes it possible to rethink the perception of this center as a health service and distance the design from the expectations of a white, clinical space devoid of character. In this sense, trigger actions also configure a message to propose to the regulatory institutions how to do it from the base. Projects that affect vulnerable social realities require strategic and contextualized approaches that include different times, rhythms and actions from design, art, architecture.
Presenters
Christiaan Job NiemanAssociate Professor, Arquitecture and Design Faculty, Universidad de los Andes, Distrito Capital de Bogotá, Colombia María Andrea Luque García
Professor, Design, Universidad de los Andes, Cundinamarca, Colombia Daniel Huertas Nadal
Profesor Asociado, School of Architecture and Design, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Harm Reduction, Service Design, Supervised Consumption, Collaborative Design, Social Justice
