Urbanization aims for growth and poverty reduction with 80 percent of its economic development concentrated in cities. Global restructuring or urbanization is a double process of integration and social exclusion on the other. Some of its products were the marginalized, the deinstitutionalized, expansion of urban settlements tied up with the issues of criminality, unemployment, and the flux of city migrants in hopes of better living conditions to name a few. The restructuring does not only focus its effects on the traditional poor but also affects people belonging to other classes with higher educational and social skills. As the development in the cities progresses, the growth of the marginalized communities also progresses. The creation of urban marginalized communities is said to have been the product of this restructuring. Developmental exclusion pushed these communities to create ways on how they may be able to continue to subsist more often through illegal means that are said to be morally acceptable known as “Quiet Encroachment”. They seek decency in their daily realities by adapting to consequences in their way of living, participating in socio-economic informality, and creating their own adaptable spaces.
The exhibition explores the idea of the production of social space in the urban marginalized communities within Metro Manila specifically in Camarin Caloocan. The artist looks at how these urban marginalized spaces adapt and shift from the structure imposed by the society in order to have access to one of human’s essential needs; shelter. From an ordinary encroached space to a place that is more than just a shelter; the essence of home . The exhibition aims to reflect these issues through Anamorphic constructions using Autoconstruccion.