Post-disaster collective resettlement as an alternative to inhabiting

Abstract

The events associated to socio-natural phenomena generate situations that modify inhabitants’ life at self-production housing settlement, in relation to their daily life, spatial and social constructions. They, by different ways of inhabiting, adapt both physical and social space to develop their own way of inhabiting. Thus, from these externalities, new forms of occupy are implemented, since the habitat implies relations with the physical and social environment, for its production. This leads to state measures, such as population transfers, which are only focused on providing partial solutions that do not contribute to reduce vulnerability, since they highlight housing as a final product. In this way, the research proposes guidelines for collective resettlement, understood as the self-production of the habitable space of a community, in which neighborhood, community and imaginary relationships are woven, conserving the codes and ways of living, which are built in a transversal way from the construction of the habitat, giving relevance to the forms of intervention by the inhabitants.