Abstract

CANTOR AMADOR, FERNANDO; RIVERA FELLNER, MIGUEL ÁNGEL  and  RAMIREZ LOPEZ, JULIÁN ARIEL. THE SAN JOSE COMMUNE IN SIGHT: URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS SEEN THROUGH PHOTOGRAPY. Luna Azul [online]. 2013, n.37, pp.162-195. ISSN 1909-2474.

Through the "National Social Interest Macro Project for the Central-Western area in Colombia, San José Commune, Manizales", since 2009 a deep intervention in that Commune has been taking place, conceived as urban renovation. The problems in the project planning have led to the relatively slow demolition of an important patrimony for the city in both, governmental buildings and remains of a city more important in industrial terms and of the collectively produced history in the neighborhoods during more than a century. So far, more than one thousand paved meters can be seen from the parkway called Avenida Colón and the beginnings of the first apartment block. It is through photography that we expose how social networks are affected necessarily because of the changes in the logics of the use of public space as well as the modification in daily life routines proper from popular urban neighborhoods in poor communes, who are untimely displaced and with the possibility to move to 45.15 square meters apartments. This is the affectation of quality of life of families and people in the Commune. However, this change is not seen the same way by the city political leaders. We tall part of the Commune history, finishing with its portrait in the image of Victorino, one of its most notable characters.

Keywords : San José Commune; Manizales; photography; social networks; public space; poverty; popular urban neighborhood; urban transformation.

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