Ibero-American Citizen Laboratories Meeting
26 November - 2023
Silo – Arte e Latitude Rural, represented by its director Cinthia Mendonça, was present at this important moment for Ibero-American laboratories
During the programming of the Ibero-American Citizen Laboratories Meeting, Cinthia Mendonça, director of Silo - Arte e Latitude Rural, presented an open workshop on “Citizen Innovation Laboratories and Agroecology,” proposing conversations about agroecological practices and philosophies in the Latin American context.
Citizen Laboratories, or Experimentation and Innovation Laboratories (as we call them at Silo), are spaces dedicated to the production and exchange of knowledge on experimental bases, in order to constitute practices guided by the combination of methodologies, experimentations, science, and knowledge that generate reflections on our ways of doing and acting.
Meetings like this one, which took place in November 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay, enable the exchange of experiences for the construction and solidification of collective knowledge with the objective of not only envisioning and problematizing issues that impact the lives of communities, but also proposing solutions in a practical way and from a collective perspective.
Cinthia highlights that “throughout the meeting we talked about documentation processes, culture, technologies, and we also reinforced and renewed our alliances and commitments.” It is an integrated endeavor that brought together, during the days of the event, rich initiatives established in the practices of groups and social organizations based in Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Colombia, and Mexico. One of the most exciting activities of this edition was the creation of a timeline of the laboratories, an activity open to the public that was carried out collectively.
Several partners that make up this network of Laboratories were present, such as Bernado Piñero’s Laborade from Nave Agora (AR), Camilo Cantor from Exploratorio Vagante Urbano (CO), Laila Sanchez from Citilab (ES), José Carlos Mota from the Urban Civic Labs at the University of Aveiro (PT), Marcella Ibarra from the Economic and Social Innovation Lab at the University of Puebla (MX), Marcos Garcia (ES), Vitor Sousa from Instituto Procomum (BR), and the entire team and community of LabNL.
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