minkalab 2014

With more than 65 participants from different parts of the world, different cultures and backgrounds, over 30 workshops, lectures, performances, music and cultural events during 3 intense days.

Some achievements of the meeting were:

• To gather farmers , technicians, indigenous groups, creative young people around the following topics: The good living , Memory and Sustainable Technologies.
• To create synergies in order to develop and support future local projects.
• Peasants and indigenous are now motivated to develop similar events in their communities.
• The intention to create a library to exchange and preserve native seed.
• A video and text documents waiting to be published and shared under a free license creative commons (CC).
• Recognition and location of indigenous communities and peasant groups in the region.
• Free access to education, art and culture to peasants and indigenous families.
• The consolidation of an intercultural group to organize the next MinkaLab .
• Among others.

Some activities were:

• Representation of the peasantry in Colombia by Alejandro Araque .
• Biopractica , visualization of microorganisms. Hamilton Mestizo.
• Economiy of short paths. Iban Agudeloc.
• Experimental music and noise . Jorge Bejarano.
• Historical tour of traditional Colombian music. Grupo Serrania.
• Native Nutrition . Maria Elena Guzman.
• Teaser to co-create social technologies. Juan Reina.
• Ancestral Architecture. Valentina Ocampo.
• Ritual and medicine plants. Conrrado.
• among others.

A very warm regards from all the team and participants of the MinkaLab 2014.