A closer look into a Social Design project - Eloísa Cartonera

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From February until July this year I had the opportunity to be in Buenos Aires studying diverse social design projects. I was simultaneously meeting project owners, artists, performers and social designers working at many levels and in many formats. Most of my time I dedicated to Eloísa, a very unique publishing house. This resulted in a very rich personal experience that would deeply reshape my views on social design and socially engaged artistic practices. This post is a first attempt to put some of ... Read More

The Bureaucratic Duty to Inform

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It’s six o’clock in the afternoon. Inside the bus there are around 80 people, many of them standing. Apart from the city raining outside, the only unusual thing to be found inside the bus is a poster, sitting too small inside the frame. Carris *1 puts up these occasional posters to inform us, among other things, about the February 11th referendum *2. We all know about the referendum, we all watched the impassioned debates and the book launches on TV, we all ... Read More