Building community through architecture

Experiences of community work in Rizos de las Joyas in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico

Abstract

Community development and participatory culture indicate a socially active conduct towards conflict, demand or problem affecting people in their daily lives; it is the capacity or endogenous potential of groups to exercise control, make decisions and actions of real change to the social and cultural development of their community. In this sense, the experience of community work in the community Rizos de las Joyas, where a group of students and academics of Architecture were given the task of involving the community into concrete actions of development and reconstruction of the social fabric since the improvement of their own habitat.