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Zoë Heyn-Jones


descomponer / regenerar
Year: 
2024-ongoing

Location(s):
 Materia Abierta Studio, Colonia Escandón, Mexico City, Mexico.

Co-authors:
Materia Abierta (Ana Rivera Uribe & Federico Pérez Villoro)
descomponer y regenerar is an arts- and ecology-based public program of workshops and activations. It is based in our collective composting project and rooftop garden on the patio of the Materia Abierta studio in the Escandón neighbourhood of Mexico City. 

Neighbours and community members are invited to participate in a variety of workshops that aim to increase our practical gardening and composting skills while exploring the conceptual, philosophical and poetic facets of composting and cultivation through the arts. It serves as a meeting place for the extended community that has grown up around the five editions of the Materia Abierta summer program to convene around the practices of care necessary to collectively sustain the garden and compost.
What pedagogies are generative in our urban rooftop garden and compost project, and how can we explore them collectively in the service of mutual flourishing? 
We constructed the infrastructure for the garden and compost in collaboration with architects Axelle Dechelette Ramon and Javier Guzmán Cervantes, working with all reused and recuperated materials in alignment with the methodology of Guzmán’s exsoup project and principles of urban permaculture. 

This infrastructure has been planted with edible, medicinal and flowering plants in order to provide respite for insects, create a tiny microclimate, and activate urban rooftop space in order to manifest a humble example of what Vandana Shiva has called for us all to create, tiny gardens of hope on every balcony, rooftop and corner. 

#1: apertura

#2: energías efervescentes

#3: regenerar la ciudad


Collaborators:
descomponer / regenerar #1: apertura
Axelle Dechelette Ramon
Javier Guzmán Cervantes
Miguel Cinta Robles 
Dani Escamilla

descomponer / regenerar #2: energías efervescentes
La Zanahoria
Andrea Aquino Morales
Nodo Te’Tzäpä
Sonia Bandura
Programa de actividades para infancias: Mar de Lava

descomponer / regenerar #3: regenerar la ciudad
ale b.l
Leto Delher
Beatriz Paz Jiménez
Librería Amoxtli

Photographic documentation by Rubén Garay

Support:
The Gwartler Stiftung; the Canada Council for the Arts.
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