Un lugar de Engativá entre la gestión pública y el habitar: de Plaza Fundacional a Parque Urbano

Abstract

The research experience has sought to interpret, from the dwelling, meanings of place in the Plaza Fundacional de Engativá, where it has influenced public management by the Plan Local Development 2013-2016. In this way, the opening of its epistemological horizon supports, on the one hand, the theoretical frame of reference based predominantly on the humanistic geography that, at the same time, it has the support of other fields; and, on the other hand, the methodological process by the choice of the investigative strategy: an ethnography of interpretive orientation. According to the objective, in the first instance, the socio-spatial characterization of the open space and its architectural framework has implied to highlight historical antecedents, the state of its urban form to approach a typological definition and the delimitation of an urban area of influence distinguished by certain land uses; in the second instance, the analysis of incidents of local public management in the open space has been carried out in two ways by considering tensions between the institutional sphere and the sphere of the subjects-inhabitants; and in the third instance, the identification of space practices and the description of place meanings has provided guidance on a local culture and a local history to establish that this open space has been experienced as an urban park.