A presentation around place making through collective actions, collective stories and collective story telling

1. Bernardo Gutiérrez // @bernardosampa
Territories: collective stories, collective action

2. #Global2011

4. “I find sense in trying and trying, once and again,
in finding a way of trusting strangers”
Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan

5. “Something completly different happens when you are in the same space with other people”
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, icelandic poetess

6. “The city is not and ended book: it is people’s language”
Henri Lefebvre, French philosopher and sociologist

7. “The fight happens between open stories and close stories. Stories that show the
mythological machine way of working and stories that hide it”
Wu Ming, Italian writers collective

8. “The spimes are social objetcs with hidden stories, objetcs located in space
and time, always associated to a story”
Bruce Sterling, Shaping things
Significant Objects project

9. “The reality is the real and the imaginary”
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer

10. TWO EXAMPLES

11. São Paulo – Rio de Janeiro – Porto Alegre (2012 - 2015)
1. Wikipraça // WikiSquare

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Physical network
The action Balança meu Arouche created physical networks through Arouche square in São Paulo, in order to
incentivate the occupation of the space and the social relationships

13. Open source benches
Re-Abécedario action built open source wood benchs for Arouche aquare in São Paulo. During different days, the
letter shape benches were build together with local dwellers. People created “words” with the benches, for fostering
the imaginaries and desires of the Arouche square.

14. WikiNamoradeira, the open source ‘love bench’

15. Collective Dj
O Dj somos nós was an action that incentivated to play music in a box through blue tooth
technology. Every single person could sent music through a mobile phone

16. O Arouche e Você consisted in individual interviews in Arouche square of São Paulo. The interviewed
people spoke about their link and memories with the territorie, before formuling new desires for it
Memories + desires video set

17. Você e o Arouche was projected several
days in Arouche square several times

18. 2 // Ciudad.Decide
Ciudad.Decide was a pilot project for anchoring in territories Decide Madrid, the official open
source participation platform of Madrid City Hall. The aim was to get citizen proposal in the platform

19. Fuencarral.Decide
Fuencarral.Decide was the first stop of Ciudad.Decide, developed in Fuencarral district

22. A cartoonist made personal portraits in order to humanize and personalize Decide Madrid platform

23. The first round of listening showed for imaginaries and lines of work for proposals: culture, childhood, sports and gardening

25. “Telling is as important as walking: if you go too fast your tongue stumbles on your legs, you
need to slow down to coordinate them. The desire to tell prevails over the summit. Molotov
mountaineering goes to the mountains to retrieve stories: its pace is the oratory step. The
breath to speak is never a waste of breath: the mountain is a repository of stories and signs
of past revolts, resistances, repressions, waiting to have a new voice”.
Alpinismo Molotov manifesto
Collective stories, collective action

26. Referencias
-Slide 1 picture. Campo de Cebada, Madrid
-Slide 4 picture: protests in Seoul in the late 2016 againts corruption
-Slide 5 picture: Experimenta Distrito, Madrid https://www.experimentadistrito.net/
-Slide 6 picture, Cine Usera, Madrid (self organized cinema) http://cinemausera.org/
-Slide 7 picture: Solar Almendro 3, Madrid, self organized children oriented space
Wu Ming Foundation site: https://www.wumingfoundation.com/giap/
-Slide 9. http://significantobjects.com/
-Slide 10. 366 sillas // http://www.maiderlopez.com/portfolio/366-sillas-2/
-Slide 11. The wikipraça site was exported to this wordpress blog
https://wikipracablog.wordpress.com/
-Slide 15. VOcê e o Arouche video set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNCGUCza0uc&list=PLogshUWtS_NsB-1uK5OfUQyqrpTHXi
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-Slide 18. Decide Madrid platform: https://decide.madrid.es/
-Silde 19. Ciudad Decide pilot project https://www.medialab-prado.es/proyectos/ciudaddecide
-Slide 25 Alpinismo Molotov manifesto http://www.alpinismomolotov.org/wordpress/2015/01/26/il-
manifesto-dellalpinismo-molotov-2/

27. Bernardo Gutiérrez (@bernardosampa) /// bernardobrasil@gmail.com ///
bernardogutierrez.net