This project seeks to complement and support the roll out of activities within the Comuna 8 integrated disaster risk management and climate change adaptation plan through providing additional community engagement and engineering-related inputs to the process. We are working with four local communities within the neighbourhoods of Altos de la Torre, El Faro, Golondrinas and El Pacífico, which comprise 25,000 of the 50,000 inhabitants exposed to landslide risk in Comuna 8, part of 150,000 residents exposed to this risk in NE Medellín.

The project was based on increasing resilience at the local neighbourhood level and rooted in the importance of citizen participation and dialogue between community, government and academia. The overall goal of this collaboration was to increase knowledge and reduce disaster risk, which lead to identifying mitigation works and an early warning system. 

Drawing on lessons from a pilot experience in a single small informal settlement in Medellin, Colombia, this research project evaluated the use of community-based participatory monitoring and mitigation of landslide risk across the city in Medellin, as well as in another city within a different Latin American country – São Paulo in Brazil.

This project aimed to explore whether smart city approaches to urban development effectively address the most pressing issues that vulnerable communities face, focusing on the case of Medellín, Colombia.

This project aims to develop transdisciplinary knowledge and build capacity for policy implementation, through identifying and testing water management infrastructure solutions that are at the intersection of technical, social and environmental knowledge, to reduce environmental risks. This proposal’s innovative approach is rooted in the co-production of infrastructure solutions through climate-change participatory methodologies that engage local community knowledge, technical appraisals and institutional policy design and implementation

The aim of this project was to identify climate change-related challenges and possible 'smart city' strategies, through implementing an interactive dialogue between community members, government institutions, NGOs, private businesses and other stakeholders in Mexico.

This research project aimed to explore the scope for, and acceptability of, landslide risk-reducing strategies for informal settlements from the community and state perspectives.

This research project asks how and to what extent urban innovation in Medellin, Colombia is contributing to an improvement to social equity and welfare in the city.