Simón Hosie Samper (1975) is an architect and artist. His architectural endeavours stem from intensive work with underprivileged communities. His projects connect art, architecture, social work and policy making to produce environments specifically designed for their context that act as catalysts for change. He was the youngest architect to ever be awarded the highest prize at the Colombian Architecture Bienal in 2004 in recognition of his project ‘Biblioteca Pública La Casa del Pueblo, Guanacas, Cauca’. Most recently, he has been developing ‘Planos Vivos’, an innovative research methodology and digital platform used to gather complex data and quantitative information about communities in an effort to better understand their most immediate problems and to propose structural solutions. In the past, Hosie has worked as  a professor of architecture, and founder and editor of the magazine + Arquitectura.”

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Former Bogota’s Mayor, Antanas Mockus has a new pedagogy of citizenship. His plan, in alliance with the Major Enrique Peñalosa, has two main steps. The first is based on the concept of respect. “El respeto por lo chiquitito” is the slogan created by Mockus, in which he believes respect starts with simple and easy actions as child’s games. The second reflects on the concept of equality of the Constitution. For Mockus, society must to achieve self-regulations’ forms. In this way, it would not be necessary the presence of the police in every block and citizens regulate themselves.

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