The house in the park: Domestic expressions in public spaces

This text stares at the interventions made by the municipality of Medellin in the so called linear parks. The aim is to interpret dwelling in relation to what is conceived, perceived and lived, in seeking to bring to discussion and evaluation the concordances between the state vision and appropriations and meanings of the actors who use these parks daily. In this research, the theory of the trialectics of spaciality raised by Henri Lefebvre (1991), who studies the space through "the conceived, perceived and lived", was fundamental. What was lived refers to the "domestication of public space", understood as exclusive daily practices of housing which are extended into public space. One of the objectives in the empirical stage was to understand how the house manages to permeate the urban space through domestic dynamics and their significance.