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      Translated title: Urbanismo utópico, realidades distópicas: una etnografía (im)posible en Yachay, “ciudad del conocimiento” Translated title: Utopian urbanism, dystopian realities: an (im)possible ethnography in Yachay, the City of Knowledge

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          Descrito como el proyecto más importante en la historia del Ecuador, Yachay, que significa conocimiento en quechua, es una iniciativa de desarrollo urbano concebido como el puente hacia una sociedad que no dependa de la naturaleza. Abrazando la actual ola de optimismo que rodea a las plataformas de código abierto de intercambio de información, Yachay se ha proyectado como un nuevo “paraíso del conocimiento”. Se trata de la utopía de una nueva ciudad que transforme un país basado en una economía extractiva en otro basado en el conocimiento y las nuevas tecnologías. El riesgo de perseguir este sueño es el ignorar las condiciones económicas y políticas existentes, pero también las esperanzas de construir “un país nuevo” que trajo consigo la así llamada Revolución Ciudadana. Quisimos pensar, reflexionar y aprender sobre uno de los planes urbanísticos más emocionantes que han surgido en América Latina. Este artículo informa sobre los intentos frustrados para llevar a cabo la investigación e interpreta los elocuentes silencios y renuencias de los responsables de este macroproyecto urbanístico.

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          Described as the most important project in Ecuador’s history, Yachay, meaning knowledge in Kichwa, is an urban development initiative conceived as the bridge towards a society free from the dependent exploitation of nature. Embracing the current wave of optimism that surrounds open-source platforms of information sharing, Yachay has been projected as a new “knowledge heaven.” This is the utopia of a new city converting a society based on an extractive economy into one based on knowledge. The risk of pursuing this dream is ignoring the existing economic and political conditions but also the hopes to build a “new country” that the so-called Citizen Revolution brought about. We wanted to think, reflect and learn about one of the most thrilling urban plans to have emerged in Latin America. This paper reports on frustrated attempts to conduct this research and interprets the eloquent silences and reluctance of those responsible for this urban macroproject.

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                Contributors
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Role: ND
                Journal
                etn
                Etnográfica
                Etnográfica
                Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia - CRIA (Lisboa, , Portugal )
                0873-6561
                June 2018
                : 22
                : 2
                : 335-360
                Affiliations
                [02] orgnameUniversitat Rovira i Virgili España
                [01] orgnameUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona España miquel.fernandez@ 123456uab.cat
                [03] orgnameLeeds Beckett University Gran Bretaña
                Article
                S0873-65612018000200006
                10.4000/etnografica.5474
                531f0e07-3ea4-4b5d-8ed9-1ae9053bf89c

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 15 May 2018
                : 11 December 2016
                : 04 July 2017
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 48, Pages: 26
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                smart cities,Yachay,Ecuador,censured ethnography,citizen participation,etnografía censurada,participación ciudadana

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