{"id":12844,"date":"2017-01-20T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2017-01-20T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:17:54","slug":"urban-students-project-en-comuna-comes-in-second-place-at-urban-sos-fair-share-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/urban\/2017\/01\/20\/urban-students-project-en-comuna-comes-in-second-place-at-urban-sos-fair-share-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Students project En Com\u00fan(a) comes in second place at Urban SOS: Fair Share competition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12850\" src=\"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/urban\/files\/2017\/01\/15995086_10154420343119842_688785187864310067_o-1-1024x564.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aecom.com\/urban-sos-finalists\/\"><strong>Urban SOS: Fair Share<\/strong><\/a> is an urban competition led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aecom.com\">AECOM<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanalen.org\">Van Alen Institute<\/a>, in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.100resilientcities.org\/#\/-_\/\">100 Resilient Cities<\/a> and pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. The challenge looked for multidisciplinary student teams that would combine the concepts of sharing economy with physical design to propose innovative solutions to critical urban issues. <strong>The challenge culminated in a live final jury event in Los Angeles on January 10, 2017, with<\/strong> <strong>finalist En Com\u00fan(a), conformed by Parsons\u2019 Urban alumni and current students, emerging as the 2016 second place!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on the thesis research project that Design and Urban Ecologies\u2019 alumni <strong>Mateo Fern\u00e1ndez-Muro<\/strong> and <strong>Mar\u00eda Morales<\/strong>\u00a0started on 2016, they reconfigured and pushed their project forward with the help of current Theories of Urban Practice student <strong>Francisco Miranda<\/strong> in order to present it to the Urban SOS: Fair Share competition.<\/p>\n<p>En Com\u00fan(a) consists of a tool to support the <em>comuna\u2019s<\/em> (self-governing Andean territories) struggle for autonomy. Through this tool, En Com\u00fan(a) is helping residents of indigenous <em>comunas<\/em> in Quito to share resources and improve the social and economic infrastructure of their communities. The team has worked with 18 <em>comunas<\/em> of Quito to produce a pilot website that maps their needs and resources, making it easier for the <em>comuneros <\/em>to connect and work collectively. Ultimately, this tool could help the indigenous residents with a range of community development projects, ranging from cooperative banks to building homes and connecting employers with skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mateo, Mar\u00eda and Francisco!<\/p>\n<p>You can read more on the competition and the other finalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aecom.com\/urban-sos-finalists\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban SOS: Fair Share is an urban competition led by AECOM and the Van Alen Institute, in partnership with 100 Resilient Cities and pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. 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