Political Equator, the third meeting organized by Teddy Cruz, Oscar Romo with Andrea Skrepa (Casa Familiar - The Front) in three stations of San Diego titled: Conversations on co-existence: border neighborhoods as sites of production (June 3-4 2011, www.politicalequator.org). The experience of the reality of spaces in the border and neighborhoods of San Diego/Tijuana fused with cross-disciplinary experience from different examples of geographies such as Mumbai, Newark, Istanbul, Gaza, Netherlands and others. Three stations which represent the social/political/environmental realities are hosted the event: The communal and agriculture-based San Ysidro neighborhood organization Casa Familiar (www.casafamiliar.org), The station Tijuana River Estuary which is an environmental ngo in the migration of birds from Alaska to Chile, Alter Terra Field Station Los Laureles Canyon which is a side is an informal settlement in Tijuana. Realities of Environment, Military, Informal Settlement and Neighborhoods formed mainly the discussions. The event focuses, deals and makes visible, disseminates the knowledge of “catastrophic conditions of spaces of inhuman justice”. Although there are problems in the reality of participation/engagement, I believe, engaging and acting within social/urban localities, conceiving the artistic/architectural representations in terms of a critical instrument in a process-based engagement within localities. However, creating specific representation in order to find ways to disseminate action and knowledge are the only ways to create possibilities of counter-cultural spaces.
talk/presentation near Tijuana border by Teddy Cruz
talk/presentation near Tijuana border Oscar Romo
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