A Post-Extractivist Urban World

Undergraduate

Since the 1970s, historical ecologists have been advocating for the recognition of Indigenous systems of agroecology and “beyond-human settlement” as key to achieving sustainable and abundant futures in Amazonia and beyond. Based on growing scientific evidence of the multiple benefits that these systems offer, the Science Panel for the Amazon, many South American governments, foundations, NGOs and development banks are endorsing the co-design and co-development of communal or community-based sociobioeconomies. This project proposes to contribute design intelligence to this praiseworthy vision by focusing on questions of how the logistical, circulation, production, and innovation hubs of polycultural agroforestry and community-based sociobioeconomies could be represented, projected, and eventually, implemented: where, why, along which routes, and with which biomaterials and construction systems, to serve which communities and contribute to which economies. To achieve specificity of purpose we propose to work with a constellation of stakeholders in Tingo María, Huánuco, Perú: members of existing Andean settler communities, Indigenous communes, the municipal government of Tingo María, a private agroforestry enterprise, the local university, and potential donors of future sociobioeconomies and innovation programs will be included in our workshops and discussions. Priority will be given to urban studies majors HU 1½ Course cr F 1:30pm-3:25pm