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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Marcela Guerrero Casas

Informal wisdom: notes from Nairobi

After arriving at 2am in Nairobi and getting only a few hours of sleep on Monday, two days later, I was finally starting to feel normal…

4 min readMar 30, 2023

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Informal wisdom: notes from Nairobi

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Food, art & a dose of optimism to redefine activism

“How do we bring joy to our community kitchens?” asked a young participant at the Urban Food Futures conference which kicked off yesterday…

4 min readNov 18, 2022

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Food, art & a dose of optimism to redefine activism

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Building bridges across imperfect contexts: a view from Bogotá

Speaking to my mother about a visit I’m helping facilitate, she made a comment which hasn’t left me. She asked me what I was doing back in…

3 min readOct 24, 2022

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The streets belong to us, when we are together

A few months ago, I was mugged while running on a Sunday morning in Cape Town. It happened in a place not considered as ‘dangerous’; but I…

3 min readAug 19, 2022

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

My never-ending compost story

Throwing away organic waste and mixing it with general rubbish is one of those things you are almost physically unable to do once you have…

3 min readMay 3, 2021

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My never-ending compost story

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Big questions, small actions: a recipe for survival

Over the December break I read a book called ‘Socrates Express’ by Eric Weiner, it is a sort of life manual based on the teachings of a…

4 min readFeb 1, 2021

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Big questions, small actions: a recipe for survival

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

“Best practice” is in the eye of the pedestrian

A group of transport academics and activists based in different parts of the Americas recently convened an online discussion about…

5 min readDec 14, 2020

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“Best practice” is in the eye of the pedestrian

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Opening up streets during a pandemic

If anyone had told me that ‘open streets’ (temporary car-free streets) would be part of the discussion in how to tackle a global pandemic…

6 min readJun 24, 2020

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Opening up streets during a pandemic

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

On home and belonging: what I learnt in Colombia last year

I recently spent a year in Bogota, Colombia — the longest period of time in the country of my birth since leaving 23 years ago. Being back…

4 min readMay 6, 2020

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Keeping distance…but only physically

A couple of years ago I contracted a nasty type of flu during a trip, when I returned home my partner, having greater awareness than me…

3 min readMar 29, 2020

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Marcela Guerrero Casas

Marcela Guerrero Casas

I am passionate about cities, public space & community engagement. Born in Colombia, I have spent my adult life in the US & South Africa. Cape Town is home.

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