Community Project
La Historia Interminable – Primaria y Secundaria Rio Grande
The project’s objective was to work on ideas of cartography and perception of the participants’ environment from a personal point of view. As well as how the life stories of each one can make a space signify or acquire a greater meaning for that who inhabit it. The sessions were held in Casa Wabi, where the resident showed them a presentation of their work and images about maps and different cartography types. Participants were invited to draw a sketch or map of Rio Grande from memory to detect the spaces. What they remembered most from the following sessions; aluminum plates were distributed so that the boys and girls could tell a personal story about something that happened in Rio Grande and transform that story into an “Ex-Voto” or miracle that could be placed in situ so that anyone who passes in front of that image can know what happened there. A map with the location of all the Ex-Votes were made, and one was distributed to each participant.
The project’s objective was to work on ideas of cartography and perception of the participants’ environment from a personal point of view. As well as how the life stories of each one can make a space signify or acquire a greater meaning for that who inhabit it. The sessions were held in Casa Wabi, where the resident showed them a presentation of their work and images about maps and different cartography types. Participants were invited to draw a sketch or map of Rio Grande from memory to detect the spaces. What they remembered most from the following sessions; aluminum plates were distributed so that the boys and girls could tell a personal story about something that happened in Rio Grande and transform that story into an “Ex-Voto” or miracle that could be placed in situ so that anyone who passes in front of that image can know what happened there. A map with the location of all the Ex-Votes were made, and one was distributed to each participant.
