Jaime Izurieta-Varea is a PPS Fellow for Latin America. Contact him at @IzurietaVarea
Harnessing Indigenous Andean Placemaking – “The Minga” – for the New Urban Agenda
The Minga, or as I like to call it, Ancestral Placemaking, has been in practice in the Andean highlands of Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Bolivia for hundreds of years. It is a voluntary, collaborative effort in which townspeople of all ages and genders contribute with their work, their motivation, their knowledge or their wit to finish a project of collective interest.
June 29, 2017