Workshop with local people sharing knowledge about the neighborhood, Barrio Cantera, an informal settlement with land slide risk in San Martín de los Andes, Argentina, October 2017.

Slums have emerged as a consequence of socioeconomic globalization and are frequently associated with land informality. By requestioning the land property as individual ‘right’, this project attempts to propose how to increase tenure security at neighborhood level through introducing the land possession as collective ‘responsibility’ to maintain properly the distributed land plots to individuals. The target project research areas are informal settlements in Latin American countries. We strategically introduce community engagement projects to explore the possibility of the scattered living sphere at neighborhood level and through generations. Such idea is inspired by the informal community logic that might have also links to the Andean pre-modern knowledge.