ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed a new housing crisis in Argentina, with informal land occupations emerging in metropolitan peripheries. One of its main expressions was a new wave of informal land occupation in the metropolitan peripheries. In this scenario, a large land occupation known as Toma de Guernica took place in the southern area of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region. This chapter analyses the synergy between inhabitants, grassroots organisations, and academia that collectively developed an urbanisation project supporting the right to land and housing. This articulation is addressed in terms of resilient co-production of planning and design strategies for urban governance. Such land occupations have been referred to as “land reappropriations” endorsing the housing needs of vulnerable groups. Guernica Land Reappropriation is a laboratory of counter-hegemonic practices, insurgent popular planning, and direct democracy, where new cooperation emerged between academia and the working class, fostering communitarian resilience during crises.
