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18.11.2020

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Nuria Flores Abreu

Site Coordinator Xochimilco

Nuria Flores Abreu is a biologist based in Mexico City. Formally, she has dabbled in various fields of biology, from neurosciences to animal cognition in wild life, through evolutionary ecology and molecular evolution. However, she has always been interested in participatory work and the transformative potential of art and science. Her main interest lies in triggering the formation of diverse, committed and self-critical communities through playful and reflective exchanges between local and external people and to hold participatory art and science encounters with a deep scope regardless of age, gender or profession of people.

At the end of 2019, she joined the project that today is Cocina Colaboratorio as cross and site coordinator in Xochimilco.

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.