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Herramienta Generosa Vol. 1, 2 and 3

Annotated by Miguel A. López
Year

2019

Publisher

Beta-Local

Author

Michy Marxuach

Topics
Gentrification and Urban Matters Pedagogy & Education
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Annotation

Herramienta Generosa is a periodical published by Beta Local in Puerto Rico. This series brings together a number of materials and contributions associated with the various public events organised by this independent art space. Their collective work and public activities encourage other methodologies to think about new pedagogical paradigms, utopia, communication, knowledge production, movement, politics and public space.

Miguel A. López

¿Qué estructuras creamos y cuáles derrumbamos? ¿Qué espacios apoyamos y cuáles inventamos para desempacar significados, para rescatar y plantear momentos de urgencia? ¿Cómo construir canales compartidos de aprendizaje donde puedan coexistir múltiples historias? Si nos presentamos como interlocutores vivos, ¿seremos capaces de establecer relaciones también con la materia inerte, con las historias ausentes? Entonces será cuando podremos desarticular posiciones deliberadas, dejando en la sombra rastros de nuestra construcción, u de este modo, re-articular perspectivas múltiples desde los aprendizajes vividos.
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