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I PLAY FOR MOCOA
I play for Mocoa was a citizen participation project I coordinated as part of Colombia's Fuente de Paz Association team. It was a co-creation laboratory with children in Mocoa focused on the reconstruction of their city after the avalanche occurred on March 2017. Through imagination and experimentation, we created, with people from the San Miguel neighborhood community (victims of the avalanche), a woven monument and an itinerant structure to mobilize games and artistic activities for children in the territory.
Year: 2017.
Project design: Tatiana Montaña, Silvia Fuentes, Camilo Mutis (coordinator).
Developer team: Silvia Fuentes y Camilo Mutis.
* Project developed with the Association's own resources, donations and fundraising through different self-managed events (such as an improvisation show and a poetry recital).
> Photos of the process.
> MONUMENT made with 10 metal frames, handwoven with cabuya, and installed in the surroundings of Doña Rosa's house, an emerging community center. Children wanted to give life to San Miguel neighborhood (one of the most affected by the avalanche) and they proposed to build a monument. We invited a group of women to do it with them and the result was a series of textiles to redefine Doña Rosa's house as a meeting, collaborative and learning space.
> MOBILE ESTRUCTURE for games and activities in public space.
+ CHAGRA DE JUEGOS
> Book of games and pedagogical activities (designed by Taller dos puntos) to support community leaders in developing artistic activities in their schools. The word Chagra refers to the vegetable patch as a space for community knowledge; it doesn't refer only to the vegetation and fruits that grow there but also to the care, knowledge, and boundaries with land and territory. Appealing to this word in the title, playing was promoted as an important element of the collective memory. Its content is written as a myth, relating the materials and dynamics with stories from the Kamëntšá community.
> Self-managed events (with the support of Improvisual project, Daniel Montoya and Enclave de libros).
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