The proposal to organize the Culturopolis Laboratory aimed to put on the table, initially, discourses and practices that are linked to debates about how cultural rights can be exercised, what this exercise consists of and what requirements are necessary for it to be granted.
So, we moved the Cross-Border Seed Library from La Florida to Pati Manning to exchange seeds and tell each other their stories (because as we say, every seed has a story). We opened a space for anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal political cooking with the Las Jamaiconas collective, and we talked about how the exercise of cultural rights is intertwined with the sustenance of life with Núria Flò, director of the Collserola – Josep Miracle Library where she promotes a Seed Library, the artist Christina Schultz and Cecilia Carrillo Navarrete from the Terralba Project, the self-managed vegetable garden for migrant women promoted by Viurenou and Sindillar.
We closed the day with a session by Senegalese DJ Baba Sy, musician, activist and member of Jokkoo Collective, a cross-border advocacy for the sounds of the African continent and its diasporas.
The space at Pati Manning was adapted by Holon, which has also been the team responsible for energizing the drafting process of the Barcelona Declaration for Cultural Rights that will be presented during Mondiacult.