“For things to remain the same, everything must change”
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard. 1960
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard. 1960
Diplomprosjekt
«If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends
is discontinuous in space and time,
now scattered, now more condensed,
you must not believe the search for it can stop»
Calvino, Invisible cities
is discontinuous in space and time,
now scattered, now more condensed,
you must not believe the search for it can stop»
Calvino, Invisible cities
I am Norwegian with both parents from Colombia. I wished to study Colombia through its vernacular architecture. Globally, Colombia ranks high in the number of displaced people. Internally due to a decade long civil war, and externally due to a Venezuelan migration crisis. I was curious about what architecture and context this would lead me to. Cucuta is a major border city that has received the largest impact of the migration crisis. Cucuta practically functions as a bottleneck of Venezuelan migrants and Colombian returnees.
