| Museo Libre, founded in 2013 by the collective SURVAMOS in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá, operates as a socio-spatial network where **art**, **materiality**, and **collective agency** collaborate. The locality, home to around 700,000 inhabitants distributed across more than 360 **barrios**, is one of Bogotá’s most unequal districts (SURVAMOS & Endémico Andino, 2021). With **steep topography**, **self-built housing**, and **limited infrastructure**, Ciudad Bolívar has long faced environmental degradation and social marginalisation. Museo Libre emerged as a creative response to these conditions—an initiative that reimagines the periphery as a living network of collaboration and cultural production rather than neglect. | Museo Libre, founded in 2013 by the collective SURVAMOS in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá, operates as a socio-spatial network where **art**, **materiality**, and **collective agency** collaborate. The locality, home to around 700,000 inhabitants distributed across more than 360 **barrios**, is one of Bogotá’s most unequal districts (SURVAMOS & Endémico Andino, 2021). With **steep topography**, **self-built housing**, and **limited infrastructure**, Ciudad Bolívar has long faced environmental degradation and social marginalisation. Museo Libre emerged as a creative response to these conditions—an initiative that reimagines the periphery as a living network of collaboration and cultural production rather than neglect. |