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Creatives

29.2.2020

Marqués de Comillas, Mexico

Tool

Mobile Radio Station

Radio Ejidal

A pop-up exchange platform between scientific knowledge and local knowledge. In the back of a van, Jesper Buursink, radio expert and Elizabeth Guerrero, sociologist and podcast maker, set up a temporary radio cabin. The reach of such radio was immediate to the street, as a set of speakers allowed passer-by to listen to conversations happening on the radio. Within, conversations and stories were exchanged about sustainable forest management, organic agriculture, local recipes, soil degradation, daily life experiences of members of communities and the specific studies of the researchers. Within the cabin ideas were generated about the balance between daily life, production and the environment.

What is your favourite recipe? Radio Ejidal at Loma Bonita, 2018. Photo by Cascoland

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.