Community Project
El Camino – Costa Oaxaqueña
The Oaxacan coast and its communities have experienced a gradual change in the use and memory of its landscape, largely the result of tourism development in recent decades. We find, given the isolation of many populations, the scarcity of resources and the exponential increase in the population in the coastal area, a need to recover, revive, the memory of the landscape. Specifically, we are interested in focusing on the roads and paths, such as the Federal Highway, the accesses to the sea or the paths between crops, since these allow not only to connect populations, they are also a place of meeting, relationship and enjoyment. An example of this would be the pilgrimage of certain saints to the sea at the hands of community members in times of drought.
The idea is to make a compilation (through interviews and public collections) of uses and changes in the access roads to different locations and environments. Based on this look at the recent past, we would collectively create with community members and populations from Alaeda to the Casa Wabi space a proposal to change the path that is located on the borders of the Foundation’s lands. In parallel, we would carry out an intervention in one of the advertising spaces on the road recalling the recent past.
The Oaxacan coast and its communities have experienced a gradual change in the use and memory of its landscape, largely the result of tourism development in recent decades. We find, given the isolation of many populations, the scarcity of resources and the exponential increase in the population in the coastal area, a need to recover, revive, the memory of the landscape. Specifically, we are interested in focusing on the roads and paths, such as the Federal Highway, the accesses to the sea or the paths between crops, since these allow not only to connect populations, they are also a place of meeting, relationship and enjoyment. An example of this would be the pilgrimage of certain saints to the sea at the hands of community members in times of drought.
The idea is to make a compilation (through interviews and public collections) of uses and changes in the access roads to different locations and environments. Based on this look at the recent past, we would collectively create with community members and populations from Alaeda to the Casa Wabi space a proposal to change the path that is located on the borders of the Foundation’s lands. In parallel, we would carry out an intervention in one of the advertising spaces on the road recalling the recent past.
