Configuración del ámbito público mediante medidas espaciales y no espaciales: espacio público y organización comunitaria en el asentamiento informal Peter Nanyemba, Windhoek

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https://doi.org/10.26439/limaq2026.n018.8505

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respuestas adaptativas, asentamientos informales, organización comunitaria, espacio público

Resumen

En los asentamientos informales, el espacio público y la organización comunitaria se reconfiguran continuamente mediante prácticas cotidianas. Peter Nanyemba, en Windhoek, Namibia, enfrenta recurrentes inundaciones repentinas que generan respuestas espaciales y no espaciales. Este artículo analiza cómo estas medidas contribuyen a configurar el ámbito público, entendido este como la interacción entre espacio público y organización comunitaria. A partir de entrevistas semiestructuradas con residentes y expertos, mapeo y un taller comunitario de retroalimentación, el estudio examina estos procesos en las escalas del hogar, el vecindario y el bloque administrativo. Los resultados muestran que las medidas espaciales y no espaciales operan como un sistema interrelacionado: pueden favorecer la adaptación espacial, el aprendizaje colectivo y la organización comunitaria, pero también producir fragmentación, desigualdades, problemas de coordinación y respuestas desadaptativas.

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  • Elsa Yepez Westreicher, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Elsa Yepez Westreicher is an architect and urban planner from Lima, Peru, and holds a Master of Science in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where she graduated with distinction. She currently works as an architect and planner at Watzl Group in Stuttgart, contributing to interdisciplinary residential and commercial development projects. Her professional and research interests focus on urban resilience, climate adaptation, participatory planning, and sustainable urban development. As part of the Go Glocal research initiative at the University of Stuttgart, she conducted fieldwork in Windhoek, Namibia, examining communi­ty-based adaptation strategies to flash floods in informal settlements. Her master’s thesis was awarded the Bürkert University Prize in 2024. Her recent work further explores the relationship between climate adaptation, public space, and community organization.

  • Astrid Ley, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Astrid Ley (Prof. Dr.) heads the Department of International Urbanism and Design and the Institute for Urban Planning and Design and is the course director of the international master program MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design (IUSD) at the University of Stuttgart. Prior to her position in Stuttgart she was urban development research analyst at the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) in Berlin, senior urban researcher and lecturer at Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, and visiting lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She has continued interest in a people-centered urban transforma­tion in the context of the manyfold global challenges urban areas are both exposed and contribute to. Her expertise and publication record include topics related to urbanisation, housing and informal settle­ment processes, the role of local governance, co-production and civil society as well as the contextualisation of global agendas.

  • Ute Vees, University of Stuttgart, Germany

    Ute Vees is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of International Urbanism, University of Stuttgart. She has previously taught and conducted research at several German universities in the fields of urban planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture and integrated urbanism.Working with architecture and planning offices on process-oriented and participatory projects, she has gained experience in designing, organizing and implementing integrated collaborative planning processes. Her research interests include co-productive and strategic approaches to urban planning and the relationship between society and nature. She currently coordinates SDGs GoGlocal! a joint project between Windhoek, Cairo and Stuttgart on integrated urban development. In recent years, she has contributed to building interna­tional networks, particularly on the African continent.

  • Mohamed Salheen, Ain Shams University, Egypt

    Dr. Mohamed Salheen is the Vice President of Ain Shams National University for Academic Affairs. He is a Professor of Integrated Planning & Design and the ci-founder of the Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design at Ain Shams University. This formed very strong research platform and strong international network of researchers focused on all facets of sustainability. He served as advisor to the minister of scientific research on Integrated Development and with the minister of higher Education and scientific research for strategic planning and international Cooperation. He was also appointed as advisor to the minister of Housing for Development of informal areas supporting National Strategy and Action Plans. Salheen is active in practice and consultation. He founded the Integrated Development Group (IDG), offering services in Strategic Planning and Comprehensive Engineering consultancy. IDG, along with its international partners, offers high level Research and Design consultancy for various inter­national Agencies such as the EACEA, BMBW, GIZ, UN-Habitat, UNEP and UNDP.

  • Gaby Hansen, Namibia University of Science and Technology

    Gaby Hansen holds a PhD in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pretoria, specialising in Dryland Nature-based Solutions and climate adaptation for arid regions in Namibia. She holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture (Professional) from the University of Cape Town (UCT), as well as a BTech and N.Dip in Architecture from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). She worked as a senior architectural technologist in various architectural firms before transitioning to academia in 2010. She is part of the pioneering team that established the only Architecture School in Namibia. Her primary research interests lie in landscape and urbanism, with a focus on climate adaptation, informality, Dryland Nature-based Solutions, public space, and creative participatory co-creation and co-design in, on, and for planning and design.

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2026-10-26

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Núm. 018 (2026)

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Yepez Westreicher, E., Ley, A., Vees, U., Salheen, M., & Hansen, G. (2026). Configuración del ámbito público mediante medidas espaciales y no espaciales: espacio público y organización comunitaria en el asentamiento informal Peter Nanyemba, Windhoek. Limaq, 018, 71-97. https://doi.org/10.26439/limaq2026.n018.8505