
Alissa DieschUniversidad del Norte | Uninorte · Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Design
Alissa Diesch
Doctor Architecture and Urbanism
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Introduction
territorial design and urban planning, urban heritage, circular design, urban governance, postcolonial spaces, critical cartography, megacities
research in architecture, multi-method research, artistic research, participatory action research
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August 2018 - September 2024
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When it comes to climate change, circularity has become a major topic. Closed loops, reuse, recycling, and renewable materials are fashionable ideas in architecture and product design. In order to establish the new paradigm of circular design, this book introduces an urban and territorial dimension to the goal of transforming living spaces for resi...
As a consequence of the rapid urbanization of Bogotá during the 20th century, the current mega city includes six ancient villages in its urban morphology. These settlements were founded, like the historical center of Bogota, in colonial times, but their history dates back to pre-Hispanic times. In this article, research is spatially delimited to tw...
Urban literature and policy research on social innovation, call for agency building and influence on institutional planning as the main expected outcomes. Empirical evidence for this hypothesis is being tested in some European cities, but the hypothesis does not yet seem sufficiently explored in the cities of the Global South.
Focusing on Colombia’...
Bogotá's rapid urbanisation from the second half of the 20th century onwards turned six surrounding villages into parts of today's metropolis. Spatial, social and discursive changes in this process are examined from an urban design perspective. The polycentric view from the periphery opens up a new understanding of continuous and dynamic transforma...
A review of The Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture. Exhibition curated by Damjan Kokalevski and Łukasz Stanek at the Architekturmuseum der TUM (Pinakothek der Moderne), from February 29 to September 8, 2024. The thought provoking, enjoyable exhibition features four examples of architectural gifts and the relation to their urba...
The Future of Creative Cities explores the potentials of creative cities. In a collaborative workshop the Faculty of Creative Studies of Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá and the Chair of Territorial Design and Urbanism of Leibniz University Hannover created an encounter to explore connections between urban design and art. By providing a virtual spac...
Westside Story
Scenarios for 10 villages west of Hanover
Rural life near the city? In all larger German cities, urban expansion has greatly changed the peripheral areas since 70 years. In Hanover, where suburbanisation took place along major infrastructure axes, 10 small villages close to the city have survived to this day. Only partly characteri...
In many global contexts, mountains are closely interconnected with and related to urban phenomena and urban agglomerations, with different flows, rhythms, linkages, and spatial expressions. Moun- tains are part of a diverse range of metropolitan agglomerations and urban networks in touristic areas or along infrastructural axes, as well as long-stan...
Culture-led approach for territorial innovation, resilence, and bio-economy
Half of the people in Europe are living near to the sea, at once we imagine the seafront of Barcelona or Copenhagen. We want to direct curiosity to the SEASIDE beyond metropolis. In the Covid-19 situation, many people became aware of small towns, villages and countryside, for leisure, but also for new living and working models, supported by digital...
The maps and essays in this atlas offer a new view on the urban expansion of Bogotá and the process of the metropolitanization of the Sabana de Bogotá. The cartographic results of two doctoral thesis focus on the spatial-morphological transformation of Bogotá and the territory of the Sabana (Arturo Calderón Esteban), and zooms of the six former vil...
This book explores mountains as a world apparently distant to metropolis that offers chances for resilience. Mountains have always been and are now—in cli- mate change, social and economic changes, and even in the Corona crisis—plac- es of inventiveness. Our interest are new lifestyles and living/working models in mountain areas that attract new “t...
The comparative reading of postcolonial spaces of port cities on both sides of the trading poles offer a new understanding of their cultures and urban structures and reveal overlooked relations on a global level. The harbors have been key sites in the transfer of goods, people and cultures, the connection of distant but related worlds as well as th...
Due to the extreme growth of Bogotá in the second half of the 20th century, part of the city now consists of six former villages. These prior rural sites demonstrate an equally long settlement history similar to the historic center of Bogotá. However, in a research project realized at the Universidad La Gran Colombia came to light, that they are no...