Migration & Urban Development
Migration and Urban Development is a proposal that intends to show the migration phenomenon from its socio-economic perspective and its impact on urban development. The goal is to raise awareness amongst the Costa Rican public about the state and development of their capital and the complexity of the migratory dynamics in the world, region and at national level.
The project grew out of the perceived importance to describe and create social conscience regarding one of the most important phenomena in the world and specifically in contemporary Latin American societies: migration. The growing flow of Latin migrants has important socio-cultural and economic impacts on the countries of origin as well as the receiving countries. Moreover, migration has an effect on the development of the receiving ("growing") and expulsing ("shrinking") cities. This is shown in the exhibition using San Jose, Costa Rica and Managua, Nicaragua as case study examples. The investigation focuses on important topics such as the informal economy, use or decline of public spaces, problems of waste disposal, pollution, transport, security, and the development of the urban centre in relation to suburban sprawl. Those areas are compared to the urban residual zones, which are typically inhabited by the poor including large numbers of economical migrants.
The exhibition material includes a multimedia montage with films, radio programs, and video projections of Blitzinterviews (short oral history), photographs, maps, and infographs.
One part of the exhibition is exhibited in the National Museum of Costa Rica, this so-called Indoor Museum is paralleled by the Outdoor Museum where information is presented on large scale billboards, LED screens, bus stops, banners, the museum wrap in various public locations of San Jose.
Credit
Idea and Curatorship :
Oliver Schütte and Marije van Lidth de Jeude.
Assistant to the project to the project :
Laura Jiménez.
Investigators :
Oliver Schütte, Marije van Lidth de Jeude, Quirine Eijkman, Elisabet Rasch, Elisabeth Bell.
Photographers :
Oliver Schütte, Marije van Lidth de Jeude, Piet den Blanken, Edgar Cleijne, Monica Quesada.
Technical collaboration :
Municipality of San Jose (department of urbanism), Office for Metropolitan Architecture / AMO, FLACSO, CCP / UCR, UNFPA, IFAD, RUTA, the Department for Migration and Foreigners of the Ministry of Governance and Public Security, State of the Nation, the ombudsman, Radio Nederland, Radio Nicaragua Actual, Foundation for Cultural Mestizaje, Voces Nuestras, IOM (International Organization for Migration) and its statistical centre SIEMMES.
Sponsors :
HIVOS, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Costa Rica, IOM (International Organization for Migration), PHILIPS, Color Visión, Eucor, the Federation of Architects in Costa Rica, Euromobilia, Municipality of San José.
San Jose, Costa Rica (2006).
EW/NS 03
EW/NS is a sequential observation of the contemporary living environment and human settlements, organized by the exhibition centre for architetcure and urbanism Arc en Reve.
Our contribution is based on socio-cultural and architectural research in the cities of Havana (Cuba), Houston (U.S.A.) and The Big Metropolitan Area in Costa Rica.
Credit
Oliver Schütte, Marije van Lidth de Jeude, Sarah Niesert, Sebastian Koch with Bill Price Inc., CiudadCity and the University of Houston.
Bordeaux, France (2005).
EW/NS 02
EW/NS is a sequential observation of the contemporary living environment and human settlements, organized by the exhibition centre for architetcure and urbanism Arc en Reve.
Our contribution is an installation including six films about the economic, social and cultural situation of urban and rural areas in Nicaragua as well as 1:1 model of the prototypical growing house we designed for the Sintiopia Project.
Credit
Oliver Schütte & Marije van Lidth de Jeude with Nicaraguan NGO Habitar and the Nicaragua Committee in Haarlem, The Netherlands).
Bordeaux, France (2004).