“Emergency case situations: Farkadona case”: Love Difference at the workshop on participatory devices and processes of auto-organization
Love Difference is taking part in the workshop on participatory devices “Emergency case situations: Farkadona case”, taking place from the 2nd to the 23rd June in the refugees camp in Farkadona (Larisa – Trikala District, Greece), where a community of Greek-Pontians repatriated from the former Soviet Union lives. The workshop, organized by PPC_T (a Greek group of architects, teachers, artists, media experts) sees also the participation of Brazilian media activists working with free software, of the Gudran group from Egypt and of the Watercollection.net project.
During the past two years PPC_T started a participatory process of exploring ways for the rehabilitation and the incorporation of the community at the local society, economy and cultural life. In this sense, the Farkadona case, as an experimental model can serve research the possibilities of working with this method also on the other communities that live more or less in the same context of marginalisation and “exception”.
The goal of this activity is to propose new tools for the expression and for the personal and collective growth of a ghettoized community, attempting to envision a final model that could contribute to the social incorporation of the community in the society of Farkadona.
So during the next weeks some activities will take palce: a multimedia laboratory based on free knowledge and free software (with Thiago Novaes and other Brazilian experts), and two arts and crafts workshops with artists, to involve the women living in the settlement in artisanal production (jewellery with Aliaa El Griedy from the Gudran Foundation and clothes design/making with Walid Maw'ed from Watercollection.net) and commerce, through new ways of distribution, such as the “fair trade”.
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“Situazioni di emergenza: il caso Farkadona”: Love Difference al workshop sui processi partecipati di auto-determinazione>>>