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making milpa



Making milpa is a translocal network of artists, makers, mediators, learners and many other different backgrounds exploring forms of collaboration, ways of inhabiting spaces (otherwise) and creating learning environments towards diversity and non-hegemonic forms of thinking.

Making milpa as a design and art practice



graphic parties
 
Language
of Water

 
the 
kitchen


the living room

Children-led Press









Mark

Children-led Press




Knowledge market. Action-workshop and zine publication, inspired on Pasar Ilmu by Indonesian art collective ruangrupa, involves appropiating of space for exchanging knowledge and decompartmentalizing learning. Everyone is a teacher and learning experiences can potentially happen anywhere, at any given time, and with a diversity of people.




Children’s rites and the right to the city of Wroclaw, Poland.

Children’s rites and the right to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Wroclaw (MWW).


Children’s rites and the right to the School’s  playground. 





Storage of questions.


Audio recordings collecting questions from the children. sound composition in collaboration with Vassilis Theodorou.




Lessons from the studio:

-Children are like water: simple, clear and playful.

-The print studio space is not fixed; it is like a river, it is in constant flux and adapts as situations arise.

-The print studio is a co-owned space where each and every user shares the responsibility of owning it. The space asks that those who use it maintain its condition so other users can feel
at home too. The space is in a state of flux, like the waves in a riverbed. It is transparent, elastic, and moves at its own pace.

-Looking after the studio space is both voluntary and obligatory task.

-The print studio is a safe space where everyone is free to keep to their own speed, rhythm and pace.

-It uses the least materials, reuses, and recycles whenever possible, and assigns use and purpose to each object within the space.

-Anything can be mobile, especially furniture, which should be lightweight and easy to move around.

-Users are encouraged to utilize, design, and facilitate the space according to their own learning interests and needs.

-The image of a rice plant that, instead of continuously growing
vertically, eventually bends downward, sowing its seeds back to the ground, is a metaphor used in Indonesian culture to express regeneration and intergenerational exchange. It underscores the responsibility of older generations to support, share knowledge with, and learn from younger peers.



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