Chambimbal: Community Empowerment and Participation at the Inter-American Housing and Planning Center (CINVA)

Chapter of book that dedicated to the participatory strategies of Design Build, arguably the most complex aspect of Design Build as learning method. This chapter demonstrates through CINVA how academic educational projects already used these methods in the 1950s. Using various initiatives it demonstrates the difficulties encountered, especially when purely academic and post-colonial approaches were chosen. The results were decidedly different when the actors considered situated knowledges.