Micro-practice with local people to mitigate erosion by building pilling walls in Barrio Cantera, an informal settlement with landslide risk in San Martin de los Andes, Argentina. October 2018.

Informal settlements constitute an indispensable part of recent global socioeconomic world. While most discussion of improvements of their livelihoods has centered on securing tenure by consolidating property rights, this project focuses on the issue of ‘possession’ rather than property. It encompasses the re-evaluation of the indigenous ontological perceptions of the environment. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the potential of human-land relationships based on the perspective of ‘Living Sphere Tenure Security’ in real neighborhoods in Latin America. It does so with the subjective contribution of local people through participatory micro-practices as well as through alternative proposals to the local government plans and policies.