The TAHWILA Atlas is developed by LoCS in collaboration withAADK Spain.
AADK-Spain is an international artistic platform that supports the decentralization of culture, promoting research,creation and access to contemporary art in rural areas. The platform has been working in the Ricote Valley since 2012, collectively exploring howdifferent systems are seamlessly interconnected so that very different scales and actors share the same systemicand metabolic lines.The Digital Atlas aims to support a transition process of how to supersede the metabolic and systemiccracks that today separate ecologies from our economies, our urban from non-urban areas, our culturefrom nature.
Linking “the local with the global”, the TAHWILA Atlas will host the material product of trans- and interdisciplinary research and action interpreted with the means and the critical gaze of art, thus creating alternative languages that open up and bring new fields of knowledge and expression to a diverse audience and with it, new narratives and negotiation´s models.
Co-produced with individuals, groups and institutions from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, the project engages with communities in the Ricote Valley along the Segura River in Murcia and their shared concerns. These forms of co-production result in experimental situations and open negotiations and guide context-oriented analysis and practices, common interests and memory and the improvement of awareness, empowerment and engagement, which are the project’s objectives.
With the creation of the TAHWILA Atlas, the research and work group will generate an online platform under a Creative Commons license. This platform will reflect the current status of the research and make the results of the processes publicly available. With it, the project aims to address (self-)critically the notion of Europe as an open and shared public space not just at the local and european level but beyond. Thus using the bilingual (Spanisch/English) online public platform, it makes accessible the co-produced resources and opens up the discussion to a wider public with shared concerns (artist, researchers, activist, NGOs, associations, individuals and curious institutions).
Our strategies are based on generating multipliers that insert innovative research and alternative pedagogical programs in formal education and in institutions. With an every-day context-specific work and involving the community in artistic interventions, AADK Spain has managed so far to get people, with very diverse profiles and not related to the arts, to participate and see their own gaze legitimated.
The Ricote Valley as Critical Spatiality
Digital Atlas
lllustrations: Andrés Agudelo Ganem
The TAHWILA Atlas is developed by LoCS in collaboration with AADK Spain.
AADK-Spain is an international artistic platform that supports the decentralization of culture, promoting research, creation and access to contemporary art in rural areas. The platform has been working in the Ricote Valley since 2012, collectively exploring how different systems are seamlessly interconnected so that very different scales and actors share the same systemic and metabolic lines. The Digital Atlas aims to support a transition process of how to supersede the metabolic and systemic cracks that today separate ecologies from our economies, our urban from non-urban areas, our culture from nature.
Linking “the local with the global”, the TAHWILA Atlas will host the material product of trans- and interdisciplinary research and action interpreted with the means and the critical gaze of art, thus creating alternative languages that open up and bring new fields of knowledge and expression to a diverse audience and with it, new narratives and negotiation´s models.
Co-produced with individuals, groups and institutions from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, the project engages with communities in the Ricote Valley along the Segura River in Murcia and their shared concerns. These forms of co-production result in experimental situations and open negotiations and guide context-oriented analysis and practices, common interests and memory and the improvement of awareness, empowerment and engagement, which are the project’s objectives.
With the creation of the TAHWILA Atlas, the research and work group will generate an online platform under a Creative Commons license. This platform will reflect the current status of the research and make the results of the processes publicly available. With it, the project aims to address (self-)critically the notion of Europe as an open and shared public space not just at the local and european level but beyond. Thus using the bilingual (Spanisch/English) online public platform, it makes accessible the co-produced resources and opens up the discussion to a wider public with shared concerns (artist, researchers, activist, NGOs, associations, individuals and curious institutions).
Our strategies are based on generating multipliers that insert innovative research and alternative pedagogical programs in formal education and in institutions. With an every-day context-specific work and involving the community in artistic interventions, AADK Spain has managed so far to get people, with very diverse profiles and not related to the arts, to participate and see their own gaze legitimated.