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27.5.2021

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Emilio Hernández Martínez

Designer

Emilio holds a Master of Arts, specializing in Future Studies and Design applied to Social Innovation. His practice focuses on researching and exploring the role of art and design as tools to activate alternative ways of inhabiting the world. Within the project, he works on conceptualizing and implementing art-education projects, guiding various groups in building translocal communal spaces for learning and social action. He collaborates on designing collective learning experiences that create opportunities for participation and training in art, agroecology, and participatory design.

Emilio is the founder of the Centro de Imaginación Oaxaca and serves as the Coordinator of the creative processes for the project in Santo Domingo Tomaltepec, Oaxaca since 2020.

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.