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ISTP Colloquium with Andrés Sepúlveda from the El Bosque University in Bogotá, Colombia.
About Andrés Sepúlveda
Andrés Sepúlveda is a sociologist from the National University of Colombia. He holds two masters' degrees: one in Urban Management and Development, with an emphasis in urban strategies and planning, from the University of Rotterdam and one in Architecture from Los Andes University.
Andrés is currently working at the Department of Habitat of Bogotá, he leads the team in charge of the formulation and monitoring of actions within the framework of the Comprehensive Neighbourhood Improvement Program (Programa de Mejoramiento Integral de Barrios), which is focused in the upgrading of informal settlements in the city. Likewise, Andrés is lecturer of urban development in the Department of Law and Political Science at the El Bosque University. Finally, he is also working with different local government institutions as well as international organizations in order to face, from an inclusive urban planning approach, the challenges associated with the new influx of migrants and refugees from Venezuela in the city of Bogota.
Andrés is interested in understand how local governments are becoming facilitators for the implementation of inclusive initiatives led by the civil society and self- organized groups of citizens committed to the social, economic and spatial transformation of their neighbourhoods. Particularly, through small actions aimed at the regeneration of underutilized public space and other placemaking strategies.