TATIANA SOUTHEY-BASSOLS

This project speculates on female empowerment and the effects of displacement on the everyday life of a street vending community in Lima. The Andean Migrants use informal street vending as a form of livehood. In Lima, there is a constant negotiation between formal and informal means of cooperation. There exists a spatial order within the apparent perceived chaos of informal markets. The transience of such living results in absence of education and social marginalisation. Gender inequality results in the creation of next generation street vendors. The project is a master plan for the development of a pueblos jovenes in Lima for migrant street vendors to explore the means by which their precarious lifecycle of poverty and illiteracy, especially amongst women, can be broken without breaking the cultural and familial connections that currently exist.