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Silke Oldenburg has a new Project in Colombia
Silke Oldenburg has been awarded a seed money grant by the Leading House for the Latin American Region of the Universität St. Gallen (CLS-HSG). In collaboration with Jaime Hernandez-Garcia (Universidad Javeriana), she will be the principal investigator in the project “Space, Agency, and Climate Change in a Contested Urban Landscape: Exploring Environmental Futures in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia”.
The project is an interdisciplinary endeavour exploring the nexus between environmental space, agency, and competing versions of the future. In Cartagena de Indias, a Colombian port and world heritage city, climatic threat and the rising sea level have become pressing environmental challenges. The city government has developed policies to mitigate the risk of flooding and to preserve urban infrastructure. However, what kind of environmental futures do the inhabitants of Cartagena’s most affected neighbourhoods envision for their communities and their city? And how do urban planners and other climate experts deal with an environmentally affected urban space that is usually omitted from Cartagena’s dazzling image as pearl of the Caribbean? The project runs between 2021-2022.