During the 2019-2020 academic year, it was planned to continue the experimentation and research program with vegetable fibers in schools, repeating the processes both at the Pau Vila School and at the Gornal Institute-School. In the first, the work sessions were planned for the last quarter of the course; in Gornal, the sessions began in early March, since, as in the previous year, the work process has been linked to the CUEME project to promote the Social Economy in the primary education cycle, and the productions made from experimentation with vegetable fibers were planned to go on sale during the great end-of-project meeting in May at the Bellvitge “market”. All this has been suspended due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 and the security measures adopted by the administrations, which have affected all areas of our lives.
In this context and with the aim, on the one hand, of supporting the two schools, Pau Vila and Institut Escola Gornal, in the work of sustaining the links with their students; and on the other hand, to make visible and share knowledge and practices that can be the seed for the emergence of alternative ways of life to the current system in collapse, from Keras buti we wanted to share a series of proposals that allow us to continue thinking together about how the systems of unbridled globalization and production and growth without limits, vulnerabilize their own existence. And about how to get to work to transform them!
For this reason, we propose several “doings” that can help us continue to keep the conversation open based on practices that have to do with other landscapes, other economies and other times. Just a few clues:
