High in the desert hills on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, a team of University of Washington designers and researchers is working in the informal urban community of Lomas de Zapallal to implement a series of green space interventions. In August and September of 2013, they worked with community members in the Eliseo Collazos neighborhood to design and construct 29 household gardens. The video below captures the incredible personal and cultural transformations that spring from these small gardens!
This work is part of a parallel project that includes Professor Susan Bolton’s fog-catching research, which aims to harvest freshwater from fog for the rain-starved communities around Lima.
Check it out!
Collazos Garden Project/Peru from White Noise Productions on Vimeo.