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Creatives

22.3.2022

Xochimilco, México

Report

This publication presents itself as a derive and another activation instance

Touring Xochimilco with en Giro y a la Olla

En Giro y a la Olla was for 5 months in the landscape of Xochimilco investigating, sharing and creating scenic situations within the framework of CoLaboratory Kitchen.

Understanding agricultural production systems as processes of knowledge-practice-production located in a territory and in a historical time, we propose elements that have been crucial in the process of investigating the Chinampera-Xochimilca daily life and in generating new questions about the body.

We have created an open collage and decided to name them as: dancing bodies; drifts-landscapes; hands-giving; corn-sustain and extended family-portraits.

Download the PDF publication of En Giro y a la Olla here

Mover y Fermentar,
San Gregorio Atlapulco, Xochimilco, Cdmx
December, 2021

Moviendo y Fermentando en Mi huerto antojería, San Gregorio Atlapulco, 2022. Foto por Rubén Garay.
Manos en Mover y

Sobre la Mesa,
Centro de Xochimilco, Cdmx
February, 2022

El Convite,
Taller el Ahuehuete, Ayécatl, Xochimilco, Cdmx
February, 2022

Convite, performance desplegado en la chinampa de Taller el Ahuehuete, Ayécatl, 2022. Foto por Ruben Garay.
Convite, performance desplegado en la chinampa de Taller el Ahuehuete, Ayécatl, 2022. Foto por Ruben Garay.
Convite, performance desplegado en la chinampa de Taller el Ahuehuete, Ayécatl, 2022. Foto por Ruben Garay.
Publicación resultado de residencia de En Giro y a la Olla, 2022. Diseño e impresión por Mj Balvanera, Riso Pop-up.

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.