Tatiana Ome completed her PhD at the DPU, focusing on sustainable development and alternatives to development. Her 2017 PhD thesis -An Ethnography of Bogotá's Ecobarrios: The Construction of Place-based Eco-political Subjects, Subjectivities and Identities is an important resource for this project in Bogotá. She is an anthropologist and archaeologist with a Master’s Degree in Anthropology and Archaeology, both from Los Andes University in Colombia. Tatiana has more than 15 years of professional and academic experience in the public sector, academia, the non-profit sector, and multilateral organizations (e.g., United Nations). Her work has covered various topics, including alternatives to development (Ecovillages, Eco-neighborhoods, transition initiatives), just transitions to post-development, urban anthropology, urban development, cities and migrations, cultural heritage and urban and historical archaeology.

Andrés Sepúlveda is a sociologist from the National University of Colombia, holding a Master's Degree in Architecture and a Postgraduate Diploma in Regional Planning and Development, both from Los Andes University in Colombia. Additionally, he holds a Master's Degree in Urban Management and Development from the IHS - Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has also pursued studies in Development Studies and Non-profit Management at the postgraduate level in universities in the UK and Canada. Andrés has experience in the public sector, academia, the private sector, international cooperation and the non-profit sector. His work has covered topics such as urban informality, participatory processes in urban planning, upgrading processes of informal settlements, cities and migration, and street art in city making processes.

Rita Lambert is an urban development planner and architect with over 20 years of international experience based at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL. Her research, postgraduate teaching and consultancy are closely linked and span across various countries (mainly Latin America and Africa). Her work focuses on environmental justice, urban risk, energy justice, urban regeneration, affordable housing, mapping and participatory methodologies. She undertakes action-research, training and capacity building working closely with communities, NGOs, local and national governments, and local researchers, to co-produce strategies towards just urbanisation.

Adriana Allen is Prof of Development Planning and Urban Sustainability at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, and has over 30 years of experience in research, postgraduate teaching and consultancy undertakings in 25 countries across the Global South. Through the lens of risk, sanitation, water, land, food and health, her work looks at the interface between everyday city-making practices and planned interventions and their capacity to generate transformative spaces, places, and social relations.

Pascale Hofmann is an urban environmental planner and associate professor at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, and has over 15 years of experience conducting research and consultancy work in the global south and Europe. She has expertise in water supply and sanitation in urban and peri-urban spaces, adequate and equitable access to services and the sustainable use of resources, everyday trajectories of the urban poor and actionable knowledge supporting pathways out of poverty.

Pablo Jaramillo Salazar is the Associate Professor and Ex-Director at the Department of Anthropology of Universidad de los Andes. Pablo graduated from the Anthropology programme at the Universidad de Caldas in 2004. Between 2006 and 2010 he did his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester (UK). Since 2010 he has been a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes. In this department he has been director of postgraduate studies and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics (UK) and visiting professor at Unicamp (Brazil).

He is an associate member of the Development and Societies Laboratory (UMR201) at the University of Paris 1 -Sorbonne Pantheon- and the IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Revista Colombiana de Antropología. His publications include four books and academic articles published in journals such as the Revista Colombiana de Antropología, Ethnos and the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

Jaime Hernández-García is Full Professor at the Department of Aesthetics, in the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, in Bogotá, Colombia. He is Senior Researcher at the Colombian Ministry of Science. He studied architecture at Los Andes University in Bogotá, his Masters at York University, and his PhD was awarded by the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in United Kingdom. He completed a Post-doctorate in Conflict and Cities at the University of Missouri Kansas City, with a Fulbright Scholarship. His research interests include informal settlements, public space, nature based solutions and community participation.

He has published widely in English and Spanish, articles, chapters and books; among his recent books: “Urban Space: Experiences and Reflections from the Global South”, published by Javeriana University; “Ecología de los Paisajes Artificiales”, published also by Javeriana University; “Public Space in Informal Settlements, the Barrios of Bogotá”, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing; and “Researching the Contemporary City: Identity, Environment and Social Inclusion in Developing Urban Areas”, published by Javeriana University.

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Alban Hasson is the Graduate teaching assistant of the ESD programme. He has been at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit since 2018 and involved in different research and teaching activities.He recently completed his PhD on conditions of an expansion of the political space for urban agriculture justice and food democracy in London. His main research interests lie in environmental justice, the right to the city, and food sovereignty.

Hugo Oswaldo Mendoza Ávila is a sociologist and member and leader of the social movements of low-income neighborhoods located in the historic centre of Bogota. While resisting the gentrification of the area, their struggle is for the right to the city, the defense and protection of vital ecosystems and of human and non-human rights.

Hugo is currently a member of the ‘Cerros Orientales’ (Eastern Hills) board and of the ‘water guardians’ network, who work to preserve the city’s water system and have been instrumental in influencing policy changes that prioritize the protection and restoration of rivers, wetlands and water reservoirs. They organise clean-up campaigns, reforestation efforts, and education programs to raise awareness.

Hugo is a graduate in social sciences from the National Pedagogical University and has a Masters in Educational Care for the Prevention of Addictions in boys, girls, young people and adolescents at the University of La Rioja. Hugo works within the Inclusive Health Team of the Kennedy Local Mayor's Office in Bogota. He also teaches at the school Unidad Educativa el Futuro del Mañana.

Moreover, Hugo is a researcher and popular educator at the School of Popular Environmental Education-Action Guaches and Guarichas for Bacatá. The school began in 2018 and is constituted of different grassroots organisations and processes. Guaches and Guarichas work for the defense and restoration of the ecosystem La Vaca Wetland located in the UPZ 80 Corabastos, in the Locality of Kennedy, Bogotá. This area has complex social and environmental challenges. Guaches and Guarichas seek to counteract these through popular pedagogies using approaches based onparticipatory action research and a critical understanding of the context.

Laura is social communicator and journalist with experience in educational communication, ecosystem facilitation and is also a legal representative of the collective Somos Uno.

Juan is an ecosystem designer and facilitator, and director of Somos Uno.

Somos Uno seeks to protect rivers and wetlands and are developing alternatives to development, such as the Ciudadela Colsubsidio and Cortijo eco-neighbourhoods, in the town of Engativá, Bogota. They focus on grassroots education to reconnect local dwellers with nature by interweaving art, science and ancestral practices. Since 2014, Somos Uno worked for the recognition, connection and protection ofbio-cultural corridors under threat from unsustainable urban development. Somos Uno thinks globally and acts locally and articulates its work through a network that harnesses knowledge and practices forcommunity education as a key means to advance the transition towards sustainable and just futures.

Héctor Hugo Álvarez Cubillos is vice president of the Territorial District Planning Council, which is the highest instance of citizen participation in the city. He is a community leader at the Triangulo community and a long advocator of community-led Eco-barrios (eco-neighbourhoods). He is also a member of the ‘CerrosOrientales’ (Eastern Hills) board, a citizens platform made up of grassroots environmental movement that includes local residents, environmental activists, and indigenous groups.

Through the above organisations, Hector’s work focuses on the protection and preservation of the eastern hills that dominate the city’s landscape. Considered the green lungs of Bogotá, these hills are a forest reserve with diverse flora and fauna, and the southern fringes house several informal settlements. Hector is resident in one of these settlements on the hills now labelled as an area on non-mitigable risk and under threat of eviction.

Martha is a resident and community leader in the Santa Rita neighborhood and has run the community action board (JAC) since 2018. The JAC is a non-profit government organization, focused on understanding and acting upon the pressing needs of the Santa Rita residents and acts as an intermediary organisation between the community and state entities in charge of tackling social and environmental problems.

Over the years, the JAC has undertaken several initiatives that include:

• The creation of communal gardens on land that was invaded and used for drug abuse and waste disposal.
• The coordination of works with the mayor’s office to pave streets.
• Awareness-raising and capacity-building workshops with waste pickers and the migrant community.
• Cultural and sporting events and training to support networking across various social actors in the community (philanthropic foundations, cultural groups and private companies).