Laboratorio- Observatorio de residuos sólidos urbanos como componente metodológico en los procesos de construcción social del hábitat

Abstract

Esta investigación parte de la inquietud por visibilizar los efectos que tiene la problemática de los Residuos Sólidos Urbanos en el marco de los estudios del hábitat. Desde la mirada de lo urbano y de lo humano, abordando tanto las cuestiones técnicas con respecto de los impactos ambientales y sociales; saneamiento y salud ambiental y salud pública. Así mismo en las cuestiones antropológicas, como un asunto con repercusiones sociales, culturales y económicas. Esto en la medida en que, como individuos generadores de residuos, estamos completamente enajenados de la responsabilidad que dicha problemática implica, no solamente en la producción y acumulación de residuos, sino desde las etapas de la producción y el consumo. (Texto tomado de la fuente).

This research begins with the intention to make the effects on Urban Solid Waste more visible within habitat studies. From the human and urban perspective, approach technical questions regarding the social and environmental impacts or urban solid waste; in regards to sanitation, public health and environmental health. In the same way, in anthropological studies in terms of social, cultural and economic repercussions. As waste generators, we are solely responsible for both the production and accumulation of waste, but also in the production and consumption. Later, this project poses a concepts analysis such as waste, residual idea, as well as the individual and collective relationship whit the waste. Our goal is to get a different approach to these concepts and relationships. Therefore, we propose the understanding of the Urban Waste problem as a question of education and awareness initially, about how humans interact with products of consumption on a daily basis. The dynamics generated in the urban context show that the behaviors at the time of consumption and wasting are clearly different. To create collectively a new vision of our planet and find new possibilities to build a place and an identity in the Habitat. Through different actions and involving strategies developed in a context of exploration and observation around a local environmental management, in this case: urban waste. This document has an initial approximation to the collective construction called Observatory Lab. Based on the interdisciplinarity offered by academies, institutions and the community as the core of these actions. An open and diversified research exercise will be the seed that generates experiments, explorations and initiatives. This Observatory Lab will be the platform that launches the observation of phenomena that may not be visible through channels handled so far. Getting the views of every participant, acknowledging the assertiveness of knowledge and environmental techniques and efficient practices existing for the handling of waste, to generate the approach to different paradigms regarding the way we assimilate realities and how we can proceed, in search of the Habitat Social Construction.