Awarded and published Project

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During the fieldwork phase, I focused on understanding the experiences of street vendors along Bogotá’s Carrera Séptima. I spoke with them, listened to their stories, and documented their daily lives through interviews, audio recordings, photos, and videos. This helped me get a clearer perspective on the dynamics they face every day.


Methodology and Role


To understand the struggles of street vendors along Bogotá’s Carrera Séptima, 
I used covert voice recordings during informal conversations, as I couldn’t present myself as a researcher. Embedding as a vendor to observe hidden dynamics firsthand.

Combining fieldwork with critical and speculative design, the project uses satire and fictional scenarios to expose how public policies and territorial privatization impact informal labor in public space.




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(Academic network of Design).

I also made an attempt to get involved directly by trying to work as a street vendor myself. This allowed me to experience first-hand the complexity of the space the constant surveillance, the informality, and the tension between legal and illegal actors. That experience gave me valuable insights to move forward with the design process.

Using all this material, I developed speculative proposals that, through critical design and satire, aim to question official narratives around “formalization” and shed light on the real conditions faced by those working in informal economies..