Historical and social cartography for the appropriation and the empowerment of the territory and the social construction of knowledge in the Barrio Santo Domingo Savio at Medellín

Abstract

The investigative exercise was carried out in the neighborhood Santo Domingo Savio, in Medellín, and is based on social cartography as a theoretical-methodological framework, in the search to re-establish socio-cultural and historical practices, as well as the recognition of the subjects as actors and managers of the neighborhood project and the empowerment of the inhabited place, from the subjectivities to the cartographic computer language that from this perspective must not only accurately reflect the coordinates and the lines of the map but also must account for the empowerment, appropriation, and tensions that are generated as phenomena of the subject environment link; This proposal arises from the research participatory action to recover knowledge and experiences that are  implicit in social interactions and is based on the collective construction of knowledge, with the participation of the community, who finally generate knowledge of the place for transformation of the territory and the possibility that they enter into dialogue with the hegemonic language of technologies and GIS as the standard language of contemporaneity.