Redes heterogéneas del patrimonio. Los Casos del Centro histórico y el humedal Córdoba, Bogotá (Colombia)

Public policy about heritage has played an important role in the construction of national-states as part of the project of modernization. This project assumes a ‘scientific objectivity’ that defines categories and implements heritage settings, which results authoritarian as it excludes other visions. This study visualizes different social and social-spatial networks in two heritage sites of Bogotá, considering resident’s social practices and representations from a relational perspective. We assume that people as well as places are gendered and that social and spatial relationships are mutually constructed. In order to understand these two heritage sites and their local realities, we adopt the notion of place-network. Particularly, we use centrality measurements by analyzing residents’ use, value and experience of the heritage sites. The main attributes used to mark the differences amongst residents are spatial distance form the heritage sites and gender uses of the sites. As a result we obtain different scenarios of the sites that give evidence of heterogeneity in the relationship of residents with the places studied. This heterogeneity is a key issue to develop social participation strategies within the planning and management processes of heritage sites within participatory democracy models.