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Marqués de Comillas, Chiapas, México

Keepers Lab&Kitchen

Bridging the gap between scientist and communities

Keepers Cocina Laboratorio, video de proyecto. Foto por Bart Majoor 2018

Solutions and Knowledge are there. Design is needed to connect the theory and the practice. KEEPERS brings the connections to the table.

Dealing with the effects of climate change is not simply a matter of technological ingenuity or smart applications. It’s complex stuff. It takes good collaboration, on all levels, to actually trigger change. People with various perspectives need to connect. But it’s exactly that connection that’s missing.

In early 2018 the region of Marques de Comillas will be hosting the first KEEPERS pilot. The design and programming of KEEPERS will be shaped following Cascoland’s unique methodology: designing short-term interventions, tools for meeting and communication, creating public space, and collective moments. This way design works to bridge communication gaps, unlocking humanity’s potential to solve problems together.

Video produced by Cascoland for the Climate Action Challenge from  What Design Can Do, winner of the challenge for funding to develop the Pilot in 2018.

Collaborators

Fiona de Bell
Bart Majoor
Femke Bijlsma
Mariana Martínez Balvanera
Roel Schoenmakers

 

The kitchen is a social place, a com­mon place to gather and connect. It is a place to share not only food, but stories, ideas, aspirations and initiatives. Colaboratory Kitchen is an ongoing mobile and on-site project that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and cooks together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities. A response to the lack of connection between disciplines that are key for new alternatives towards more sustain­able and just futures.

The questions at stake are: How do we bridge scientific and local knowledge? What kind of interdisciplinary projects can we create towards a better livelihood and ecological resilience of farmer communities? How can we conserve the environment and its biodiversity in balance with sustainable food production and pair local consumption to global demand?

We create a space for a trans-disciplinary community to grow and take action, by sharing and cooking futures together.

The project was initiated in 2016 as a collaboration between Cascoland and the Forefront Project (WUR, UNAM), a joint effort to design spaces and tools of communication and action towards strengthening socio-ecological bonds, south of the Lacandona Jungle, Chiapas, México. Now a days the scheme is being developed in three rural locations in Mexico: Santo Domingo Tomaltepex, Oaxaca, Xochimilco, Mexico City and Loma Bonita, Chiapas, as a collaboration with UNAM, local organizations and a range of collaborations from professionals in different disciplines.