SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INTEGRATION
In the last decades, the Chilean government has created different incentives to promote the social integration within cities such as the Urban Renewal Program for 200 neighbourhoods (2006), the Development Program for the Renewal of Santiago (1990), Projects for Social Integration (2006) and the National Policy for Urban Development: “Sustainable Cities and Quality of Life” (2013). These recent policies and programs recognise social integration and sustainability as pivotal strategies to improve the quality of life in our cities. It is vital to monitor these new policies to evaluate their application as incentives (their setbacks, achievements and potentials) and to investigate alternatives that might better achieve the objectives of integration and sustainability. This national interest and debate concerning alternative forms and means of creating social integration and sustainability in cities provides the context of the Fondecyt research project (N° 11130636) entitled “Socially Integrated housing and environmental sustainability: an investigation of key projects in Chile”. Through this research project the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile invites you to the conference “Sustainable Strategies to Promote Social Integration in the City, the neighbourhood and housing".
Within the overarching theme of this conference, we propose that for an effective social integration to exist in housing developments, it is also necessary for the city to be inclusive and integrated and, to achieve this, that multi-scale strategies and actions are needed. We also propose a discussion around opportunities for the incorporation of sustainable technologies to reduce energy consumption and that would highlight positive aspects and create incentive for social integration. In response to this proposition, the conference is divided into two sessions: the morning session entitled “Sustainable Strategies for Social Integration in Housing Developments” and in the afternoon “Sustainable Strategies for Social Integration in the City”.
Participating in this conference are national and international professionals, academics and representatives of government including our invited presenter Dr Ralph Horne, Professor from RMIT University, Australia and the Director of the Global Compact Cities Program, the urban component of the United Nations Global Compact.
PARTICIPANT ORGANIZATIONS
Municipalidad de Santiago
Ministerio de Vivienda y Urbanismo (MINVU)
Mapocho 42K
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales PUC
Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo U.Chile
Intendencia de Santiago
Arquitectos Proyectos de Integración Social
Laboratorio de Bioclimática, Universidad Central
RMIT University, Australia
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