la historia en el Viejo San Juan

In collaboration with Puerto Rican native, Nick Quijano and the vision of tenured Puerto Rican residents in Old San Juan, this project is seeking to develop an interactive map for residents to add memories. The goal is for the local Puerto Ricans to reclaim their heritages within their spaces. The project was developed from a fieldwork trip in Spring 2022 from a Historic Preservation Studio "Urban Regeneration in the Americas" at the University of Pennsylvania. The photo album below depicts the conflicting uses of historic public spaces by the residents and the increasing population of tourists and expats. In addition, the album captures our meetings with architects, planners, artists, and anthropologist.