Material culture of the amphibian habitat: A case study of Bocas del Atrato in Colombia

Abstract

Amphibian habitats are natural ecosystems in which human groups coexist between water and land and flood and drought. The problem is the lack of study, since from the reference authors there is a gap of 10 years in which it is necessary to state the settlement, housing typology with materials and constructive systems. The objective was to identify the effects of climate change in a rural community in the village of Bocas del Atrato in Turbo-Antioquia (Colombia), through a collaborative research between the community, the public sector and academia by means of the participatory methodology in construction “Transforming Actions”. As a result, the conceptual projection of strategies based on nature was obtained and it was concluded that these amphibious landscapes in similar territories still need to be studied in order to generate different routes to be exploited from the knowledge of local knowledge and academia, through entrepreneurship.