GRIGRI PIXEL 2016-2020 [ENG]

GRIGRI is the name given in West Africa to objects used as amulets.

Grigri Pixel is a program that wants to explore the practices of cultural cooperation and citizenship between Africa and Europe, through the manufacture of grigris or magical objects to protect and reenchant urban spaces through artistic and digital manufacturing practices, collaborative and experimental from from both continents.

Five years of Grigri S U M M A RY O F 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 2 0 E D IT I O NS

A project by:

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AFRICAN INITIATIVES NETWORK

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I EDITION Makers and energy in African cities

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II EDITION The invisible, the common and the magical ......................................................... 40 III EDITION Right to the city IV EDITION Hospitality

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Grigri Pixel W H AT IS IT ?

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A network of transformative urban initiatives and practices.

Grigri Pixel is a program of residences workshops and seminars that wants to explore the practices of cultural cooperation and citizenship between Africa and Europe, by manufacturing grigris or magical objects to protect and reenchant urban spaces through artistic practices and digital manufacturing, with collaborative and experimental nature from both continents. We understand the magical as the practices that are still to be built, the collective processes that are difficult to measure and quantify, the learnings that arise in the limits of the unexpected and that are capable of changing ourselves by changing our closest environment.

WHY THE AFRICAN CONTINENT?

From this program, collective creation spaces are proposed to respond to the need for other stories and other ways of intervening in the city based on the experience of invited initiatives from the African continent, often ignored, and that is only 14.4 km from ours.

This continent, immense, rich and diverse, has undergone an accelerated urbanization process, in which, simultaneously, the DIY and the culture of bricolage are the basis of many learnings and exchanges. This ability to compromise hybrid forms between the public and the private, the formal and informal, the sacred and the profane is a constant in historical and contemporary African social practices, producing innovative and suggestive ways to reinvent the urban.

GROS-GRIGRI IN BAMAKO. Built anonymously by residents of a neighborhood in the city to protect land against speculation.

CONNECT CITY CREATION EXPERIENCES

Grigri Pixel aims to connect and link these city creation experiences, between Europe and Africa in order to raise common questions capable of making visible synergies, meeting points or differences in re-enchantment practices and processes for a common life inside the city.

This initiative seeks to generate alliances with spaces, projects and local communities of the collaborating cities, with whom cooperating in the collective construction of grigris, protective objects that materialize and symbolize the creative potential of the collective in the city against the processes of homogenization and commodification of their common spaces.

Grigri Pixel thus seeks to weave a network of contemporary urban initiatives and practices of a transformative nature that facilitates the exchange and learning of different knowledge and strategies in the creation of common urban spaces for a diverse and multicultural citizenship.

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W H AT I T I S ?

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An interdisciplinary program for action research.

Grigri Pixel emerged in 2016 at the Medialab Prado (Madrid) contemporary cultural creation center on the initiative of Susana Moliner. Curator and cultural manager from Madrid, she has worked for years with artists and communities from different West African countries.

The design and activation of the workshop is carried out by David Pérez, an architect specialized in collective design processes; Yago Torroja, electronic engineer and professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and Blanca Callén independent researcher.

JERRY DIT is a community that promotes the reuse of computer components to manufacture computers with plastic drums.

W H AT I T I S ?

AN ITINERANT AND SITUATED PROGRAM

The program began with a first experience in February-March 2016 at Medialab Prado in Madrid, and continued with a second laboratory that took place in May of that same year in Dakar in the framework of the fifth edition of the Afropixel Festival organized by the Kër Thiossane independent art center.

In October 2017, the second edition of Grigri Pixel was held in Medialab Prado with a production workshop in collaboration with EVA Espacio Vecinal de Arganzuela, in addition to other activities in cultural spaces of the city.

Within the framework of this second edition, the initiative continued in November 2017 in Barcelona where a production workshop was held in collaboration with HANGAR and the Taula Eix Pere IV, both entities located in Poble Nou.

The third edition of Grigri Pixel, held from October 15 to 28, 2018 at Medialab Prado, revolved around the Right to the City. Objects that were designed, built and activated were part of a festive intervention as a Pilgrimage for the Right to the City in the Barrio de las Letras, in the Downtown District of the city.

In 2019 the fourth edition of this program is carried out, a proposal of actions that revolve around the theme of Hospitality. The program of activities is extended with respect to previous editions thanks to the collaboration with the NGO SERCADE and the Community Mediators Program of the Community Social Center Casino de la Reina. Together with them, we conducted a series of previous sessions, as well as a conversation between Marina Garcés and Felwine Sarr with the aim of outlining a reflection and action framework that will serve as the basis for the intensive workshop that will take place in October 2019.

Within the framework of this fourth edition, a production workshop has also been held in Niamey (Niger) in collaboration with the Arène Théâtre space.

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Research associated with the project.

The Grigri Pixel laboratory aims to reconnect experiences of manufacturing objects and urban furniture with city building processes and common spaces.

This constructive and reconnection project is accompanied by a research process that raises questions common to all these experiences in order to make visible synergies, meeting points or differences about the practices and processes of care and maintenance of urban spaces in Africa and Europe.

WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS WE ASK OURSELVES

+ What are the threats and weaknesses that put at risk our communities and common urban spaces?

+ What conditions should a grigri have to take care of and protect the co- habitation of our cities?

+ Through the construction of these objects ...

Can we create other narratives of our urban spaces?

Is it possible to create these narratives from peripheral imaginary?

Could these narratives be a way to reflect and project our multicultural cities?

+ Can the relationship with the magical and the invisible be an opportunity to recover other learning and subaltern knowledge?

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I EDITION. Manufacture of the see-saw during the workshop held in Dakar for the Afropixel Festival.

+ What are the spaces, goods, bodies or urban communities to protect by built grigris?

+ What are the knowledge, tasks, tools, narratives, looks and peripheral and unconventional imaginary that could redefine and transform our cities - of origin or arrival - into spaces more careful, inclusive and livable?

II EDITION. Design of mobile, bright and self-sufficient benches for the Passatge TrullĂĄs.

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Thematic axes and research methodology.

All the research questions listed before are condensed and articulated from three general thematic axes:

A) Spaces, goods, communities to protect or re-enchant.

Threats and weaknesses.

B) Local know-how, unconventional and peripheral.

Amulets. Strengths and opportunities.

IV EDITION. Previous sessions in SERCADE for the drafting of a Hospitality Manifesto.

C) Imaginary, looks and narratives (peripheral and decolonial) of our cities (of origin and host).

HOW WORKSHOPS AND RESEARCH ARE COORDINATED

The research has a longitudinal character that unfolds from three moments:

1. Prior to the workshops:

A diagnosis is made to detect possible needs, know the local starting situation and thus help define some of the conditions and design parameters of the object to be built.

2. During the workshops:

The constructive and decision-making process of the design is observed and analyzed, through which the realities and local needs are materialized in the object but also the imaginary and shared ideas about the common spaces in which the project operates.

III EDITION. Manufacture of clothing for the Pilgrimage for the Right to the City in Letters.

3. After the workshops:

An assessment is made of the workshop and its effects, of the possible (re) appropriations of the constructed objects and the consequences, in the short term, of the intervention carried out in that space.

Qualitative methodologies of ethnographic type will be used for the development of the research such as participant observation, individual or group interviews, photographic record, documentary analysis and other methodological instruments that can be applied without the direct presence of the team but with complicity and help from the local community and that are able tocollect and produce data and information that are meaningful for the research objectives.

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Team A B O UT US

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Susana Moliner C O O R D I N AT I O N

She is a curator and cultural producer. She has extensive experience in cultural production and mediation, having dedicated herself in recent years to the implementation of free culture programs in the African continent.

Interested in alternative learning devices and reflection on common goods in peripheral contexts, she has actively participated in the international platform Remix the Commons, the Pixelini Festival in Bamako, the contents of the latest editions of the Afropixel Festival for Kër Thiossane in Dakar or Fuencarral Experimenta with Experimenta Distrito.

Blanca Callén RESEARCH

Doctor in social psychology, she has developed an academic interdisciplinary career as a teacher and researcher in national and international projects in the field of social studies of science and technology, citizen participation and collective political action, free culture and social transformation through design and material cultures.

She has also developed artistic research projects linked to institutions such as the Fundació Antoni Tàpies or HANGAR. In the field of R&D management, she has coordinated European work teams, state projects and sub-projects and organized international conferences.

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Yago Torroja

ELECTRONICS AND INTERACTION

He is professor at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and belongs to the Centro de Electrónica Industrial of that University He combines his work as a teacher and researcher in the field of electronics with a gradual inclusion in the world of art, new technologies and music.

In this way, he manages to combine his academic activity with his artistic career, which he develops both individually and in collaboration with other national and international artists.

David Pérez

U R BA N I NT E R V E NT I O N

Architect and master in advanced architectural projects. He has 13 years of experience in the design and development of participatory dynamics, tools and processes for collective intervention in urban spaces of very different scales.

He bets on the promotion of the use of alternative strategies to approach urban phenomena to motivate the creation of proactive citizen cultures.

Design and use tactical urban planning tools as a way to transfer teamwork strategies and collective thinking dynamics to the processes of management and design of public spaces, with the aim of recovering the city as an emotional, relational and plural place.

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Network A F R IC A N I N IT I AT IV E S N E T WO R K

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Modou Ngom

SENFABLAB (Dakar, Senegal)

I EDITION 2016 - Madrid and Dakar II EDITION 2017 - Barcelona

Self-taught in electronics, in 1995 he opened an appliance repair space in Yoff, a popular neighborhood in Dakar.

He is responsible for the activation of the Fablab Defko Ak Ñep since its opening in 2014, a space located in the Sicap Liberté II neighborhood where digital innovation, creation and traditional knowledge intersect.

This space is located a hundred meters from Kër Thiossane, a cultural center that began its activities in 2002 around artistic practices, new technologies, and its implications in contemporary society.

Zainab Fasiki

(Casablanca, Morocco)

I EDITION 2016 - Madrid II EDITION 2017 - Barcelona

She graduated from the National School of Electricity and Mechanics in Casablanca obtaining a degree in Industrial Mechanical Engineering.

Zainab is a collaborator of the collective that publishes the magazine Skefkef, a comic strip that has brought together the works of several Moroccan artists. She organizes workshops designed to introduce high school students to DIY culture (do it yourself) and electronic installations with the Morocco Makers organization.

She published her first comic called Omor where she explores the difficulties of a woman's life in Morocco and denounces gender inequalities through three characters who are young Moroccans.

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Kokou Elolo

OPENSTREETMAP (Lome, Togo) I EDITION 2016 - Madrid

Economist, web addict and geek. He discovers OpenStreetMap in 2013 and since then participates in this community by developing tools, training other people and translating some of their tools to make them accessible to the Francophone community.

He is part of Minodoo, a nomadic community that in the Éwé language means "let's be together", a social innovation laboratory whose mission is to introduce new technologies into the daily life of the Togolese population, as well as the philosophy of open culture.

He has worked in learning communities such as JERRY DIY, to manufacture computers with recycled material in plastic drums.

Mamadou Coulibaly

YETA COLLECTIF (Bamako, Mali) I EDITION 2016 - Madrid

He is passionate about computer science, programming and free software, and teaches digital tools. He is an assistant in digital projects of an artistic nature at the Yeta Collective in Bamako, in which several artists from different disciplines gather around image, sound and new technologies. His career in free culture begins by collaborating with Kunnafoni, an association for knowledge access through free software.

The Yeta Collective (“the visible” in Bambara language) was born from the desire of several artists from different disciplines to gather around the image, sound and new technologies. The collective activity dates back to 2005 and in 2011 they launched the Pixelini festival in Bamako.

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Ismael Essome

MADIBA & NATURE (Kribi, Cameroon)

II EDITION 2017 - Madrid

Madiba & Nature is a social startup with origin in Cameroon that works from the recycling and recovery of plastic waste for the construction of ecological canoes, monuments and tourist homes.

His actions are based on the circular economy with the objective of reusing and recycling all the waste that contaminates Cameroonian cities.

They also propose green homes for impoverished people and schools for the most vulnerable built with reused materials. They even develop furniture made of plastic bottles.

Mané Toure

CÔTÉ JARDIN (Dakar, Senegal)

II EDITION 2017 - Madrid

Côté Jardin is an independent initiative based in Dakar and promoted

by Mané Toure Ndèye and which seeks to open a reflection on the problem of fruit consumption in Senegal.

Every year and in its corresponding season, thousands of tons of fruit are thrown away due to the lack of initiatives for processing and storage, but above all because the Senegalese consumer is not accustomed to taking it in other, unprocessed ways.

Côté Jardin offers a juice and milkshake bar that proposes another form of fruit consumption, while inviting us to reflect, through artistic and social practices, on local and bio consumption.

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Afate Gnikou

WOORA MAKE (Lome, Togo) I EDITION 2016 - Dakar II EDITION 2017 - Madrid

Woora Make is an initiative of Afate Gnikou, the inventor of the first African-made 3D printer, the “W.afate 3d printer” completely built using electronic waste in Togo.

Woora Make was launched in December 2016 from the launch of a new improved model of the original 3d printer and was awarded the “Best innovation” badge at the 2014 FabLabs international meeting in Barcelona.

Woora Make is also a structure that supports programs related to education, health, industry and is also currently developing a project to open a free and free Maker space in Togo.

Aderemi Adegbite ICAF (Lagos, Nigeria) II EDITION 2017 - Madrid

Iwaya Community Art Festival (ICAF Lagos), is a project developed by the Vernacular Art-space Laboratory Foundation (VAL Foundation) to challenge the conception of art in the white cube and bring it closer to people who believe they do not know it or are unable to visit and appreciate exhibitions in traditional galleries and museums, and do this through the realization of installations and performances in alternative and abandoned spaces.

This festival makes use of the streets and surroundings of the Iwaya community to carry out these alternative artistic interventions.

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Bay Dam

VX LAB (Dakar, Senegal)

II EDITION 2017 - Madrid

Dame Diongue, better known by his stage name Bay Dam, is a computer programmer passionate about Linux and the complete free software ecosystem. In Dakar, in 2014, during a Montreal artist residence, he met Sofian Audry and Alenxandre Quessy with whom he later developed MapMap, a free software video mapping program.

He has also worked on numerous video mapping projections and interactive installations, some of them in collaboration with other artists.

Founder of VX Lab, a laboratory dedicated to research and experimentation in digital arts, Bay Dam is actively involved in the creation and development of free software.

Lalya Gaye

ATTAYA PROJECTS III EDITION 2018 - Madrid

Born in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland, Lalya Gaye is a Swedish and Senegalese-Malian interactive digital design artist and researcher based in Newcastle, UK. In the convergence of art, technology and design, her work explores the poetic integration of digital technology in the daily life of urban spaces and objects of daily use, in order to capture and review our physical and emotional relationships with everyday, space and distance.

She works with public art installations with various materials such as metal, light and sound, participates in audio experiments linked to places, teaches digital media and interactive design and regularly offers creative electronics workshops.

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Mmakhotso Lamola

LIMBIC RES. (Cape Town, South Africa) III EDITION 2018 - Madrid

Limbic Resonance is a research project that seeks to unearth narratives and experiences of other people [people of color, queer, women] who live in Cape Town and materialize them through a series of interactive installations and web content.

Limbic Resonance describes how the chemistry and nervous system of our brain are influenced by those around us and are closer to us through resonant energies and emotions (auras). This ability to share deep emotional states arises from the limbic system of the brain.

These states include the resonance of feelings of empathic harmony or the emotional states of fear, anxiety and anger.

Mama Koné

CÔTÉ-COURT (Bamako, Mali) III EDITION 2018 - Madrid

The Cultural Association Côté-Court is based in Bamako, created in 2011 committed to art, and in particular for theater in public spaces, as a tool for education and citizen empowerment in your country.

With the help of its partners, Côté-Court works to raise awareness of the people of Mali and Africa, especially young people, developing workshops and theater shows as a device for democratization of public space.

One of the main actions of Côte-Court has been to create a festival where women play a central role. Since 2016 they organize the ARTS-FEMMES festival, whose main objective is to recognize the place and the role of women in artistic creation.

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Abdellah M.Hassak

(Casablanca, Morocco) III EDITION 2018 - Madrid

Abdellah Hassak, sound artist who participates in the "MusĂŠe Collectif". This project is the result of research, compilation, reflection and creation by groups of artists, activists, students, children and residents who act in their neighborhoods to recover unknown stories.

This initiative is implemented through a series of workshops, meetings and temporary exhibitions in several neighborhoods (Ain Chock, Old Medina, Ben Msick, Bernoussi, Sidi Moumen, Oulfa, Hay Mohammedi, etc.) before being installed in the public space in the center of Casablanca planned for 2019.

Ana Raquel Machava

MAPUTO CINEMA FEST. (Mozambique) IV EDITION 2019 - Madrid

Ana Raquel Machava is an architect and urban planner graduated in 2016. With a special interest in the opportunities that the city offers, she and her partners have a commitment from architecture to the development of the urban environment and the creation of conditions to offer alternative solutions to everyday issues and for the development of a society capable of responding to new contexts of human reality.

Since 2016 she has developed urban experiences in the city of Maputo where she and her colleagues reinterpret the abandoned or excluded spaces of urban dynamics with the launch of interventions such as temporary movie theaters.

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Nana Kadidjatou ARÈNE THÉÂTRE (Niamey, Niger) IV EDITION 2019 - Madrid

Originary from Niger, born in Zinder in 1982, Nana holds a diploma in Administration and Management of Cultural Projects obtained in 2011 in Niamey. After having graduated, she practices cultural management in Niamey, in Ouagadougou, in Togo, Luxembourg and Montbéliard.

Mother of 2 boys and one girl, she currently works for the Arène Théâtre company. For 6 years she has been in charge of the administrative affairs of this company's activities as well as the Émergences Festival, a theater festival based in Niamey that promotes theatrical shows in small spaces nearby.

For just a year now, the Arène Théâtre company has its own space in the Séno district, in the north of Niamey.

Gildas Guiella

OUAGALAB (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) IV EDITION 2019 - Madrid

Ouagalab is the first fablab of Burkina Faso. Born in December 2011 on the initiative of Gildas Giella and a dozen young Burkinans who participated in the third edition of the InnovAfrica Forum, which took place in Ouagadougou during the same year.

Established informally and provisionally housed in the premises of the Yam Pukri association, the Ouagalab organizes in 2012 its first activities around the assembly of a numerical control milling machine, the presentation of open source software and the programming of Arduino cards. In 2014, through crowdfunding, the group gets the necessary financing to start their own space that is self-built by its members.

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Amadou Mbaye

HAHATAY (Gandiol, Senegal)

IV EDITION 2019 - Madrid

With a degree in Spanish Language from the Gaston Berger University in Saint Louis, Amadou completes his higher studies in Spain (Granada) in the framework of the Master's in Development Cooperation.

Since May 2018, he is coordinator of the community development section of Hahatay in which multiple sectors of work are covered and where he mainly cooperates with young people and women. Hahatay is a meeting place that unites people with the same concern and commitment to be involved in an integral human development.

The activities developed in the center focus on reflection and work around concepts such as the relationship with the other, the welcome or the "Teranga" that has to do with the exchange.

Meryem Aboulouafa (Casablanca, Morocco)

IV EDITION 2019 - Madrid

Moroccan, graduated by the École Supérieur des Beaux Arts of Casablanca as an interior architect and designer in 2011.

She has participated in numerous national and international artistic residences, among which the “ICI” residence carried out in 2010 and focused on the design and reproduction of the city of Casablanca in a particular space-time context stands out.

In parallel to the interior architecture and design, music is omnipresent in her trajectory. An 8-year itinerary at the Paris Conservatory in Casablanca reinforced by multiple collaborations with musicians from diverse countries.

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Sen Fablab

Zainab Fasiki

Open Street Map Togo

#Prototypage #Électronique #Éducation

#ComicsArtist #WomenPower #MechanicalEngineer

#OpenData #Map4Africa #Team228

@senfablab

www.fablabs.io/labs/senfablab

@zainab_fasiki

www.instagram.com/zainab_fasiki

Madiba & Nature

Woora Make

#Vjaying #Multimedia #ProductionCulturelle

#Ecotourism #RecyclagePlastique #EconomieCirculaire

#EwasteRecycling #Afri3Dprinter #Woora4All

www.collectif-yeta.pagesperso-orange.fr

@madiba20161

http://www.madibanature.com

@wooramake

www.facebook.com/wooramake

Côté Jardin

Iwaya Art Fest.

VX Lab

#ConsommationLocale #LaboratoireCulinaire #EngagementSocial

#VernacularArtSpace #CrossCulture #CommunalReimagination

#Laboratoire #Experimentation #ArtsNumeriques

@CoteJardinDakar

www.twitter.com/CoteJardinDakar

@ICAFLAGOS

www.facebook.com/ICAFLAGOS

@vxlabcc

www.vimeo.com/vxlabcc

Limbic Resonance

Attaya Projects

Arts Femmes

#InterdisciplinaryResearch #WebBasedMedia #MovementTask

#Collaborative #DigitalMediaArts #InteractionDesign

#TheatreFemmes #Formation #ValeursCulturelles

@limbicres

www.limbicres.tumblr.com

@AttayaProjects

@festivalartsfemmes

www.facebook.com/festivalartsfemmes

www.attayaprojects.com

Abdellah M. Hassak

Arène Théâtre

Maputo Cinema Fest.

#AudioArt #Archiving #CiviSociety #OpenSource

#Theatre #Spectacle #Audiovisuel #FestivalEmergences

#UrbanInterventions #Cinema&Architecture #FilmmakersCommunity

@ahassak

www.hassak.net

@Arenetheatre

www.facebook.com/arene.theatre

@maputocinemafestival

http://www.maputocinemafestival.org

Ouaga Lab

Hahatay Gandiol

Meryem Aboulouafa

#DemocratieTechnologique #InnovationFrugale #InteligenceCollective

#Cooperacion #ONG #Comunidad #Migracion #Voluntariado

#Musique #Design #Performance #Designer #Singer

@ouagalab.bf

NETWORK

www.twitter.com/osmtogo

Collectif Yeta

@yeta.collectif

www.ouagalab.com

@OSMTogo

@HahatayGandiol

www.hahatay.org

@meryemaboulouafa

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Experiences carried out PAST E D IT I O NS 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 2 0

I Edition M A K E R S Y E N E R GY I N A F R IC A N C IT I E S

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Esta es una Plaza MADRID 2016

From February 23 to March 5, 2016 in Medialab Prado and in Esta es una Plaza.

Within the framework of Objetos Comunes project of Medialab Prado, the first edition of the Grigri Pixel workshop was held in Madrid. Under the pretext of manufacturing energy-efficient urban objects, the project sought to create alliances between citizen managed spaces in different African countries and the self-managed community garden Esta es una Plaza in the Madrid neighborhood of LavapiĂŠs.

Another important aspect of this meeting was to reflect on the different forms of intervention in the urban sphere, paying special attention to the ways of doing in the green spaces self-managed by citizens in Madrid and in four African cities.

Grigri Pixel invited in this first edition four African makers from Bamako (Mali), Dakar (Senegal), Lome (Togo) and Casablanca (Morocco), four makers, handyman, activists and artists, representatives of four groups linked to the promotion and dissemination of open source manufacturing, to seek innovative and creative proposals for the development of a prototype that brings other perspectives to energy autonomy in urban spaces.

The team of guests: Zainab Fasiki from Casablanca, Kokou Elolo from LomĂŠ, Mamadou Coulibaly from Bamako and Modou Ngom from Dakar.

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With this workshop we wanted to connect knowledge and strategies of African makers and, in this way, think about digital manufacturing and the production of everyday objects from the perspective of other territories.

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IMAGES: Previous page: preparing the DJ session for the final party using the energy produced by Grigri Totem.

This page (up): Modou Ngom with Irene Ayala in one of the initial working groups.

This page (down): Kokou Elolo with RocĂ­o Rosado and Beatriz Moreno during the manufacture of the grigri.

The prototype that was made during Grigri Pixel sought to give way to think how to make our cities more habitable through technological devices capable of generating alternatives that produce values of autonomy and good living for their communities.

A prototype, in the form of collective amulet / grigri, to protect and illuminate the common spaces of cities.

The manufacturing workshop was carried out in close collaboration with a group of twenty-six participants.

For two weeks two magical objects were designed and manufactured collectively to protect the space of This is a square.

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IMAGES: This page (up): Manufacture of solar panels for the Grigri Totem in the Fablab of Medialab Prado.

This page (down): Assembly of the wheel producing kinetic energy for the Grigri Relax.

Next page: Final party in the light of Grigri Totem in Esta es una Plaza.

The workshop started from a questioning about the ways to provide solutions beyond the purchase and assembly of materials such as manufacturing a solar panel following the steps of a tutorial.

By sharing the experiences of the African makers invited to the workshop, we wanted to emphasize the planned obsolence of the objects and delve into the implications and possibilities of manufacturing with low budgets, recycled materials and discarded, almost unusable technologies.

It was thus attempted to provide a critical look at digital manufacturing, completing the questions that Common Objects launched the program where this first edition of Grigri Pixel was registered.

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The two grigris or collective amulets produced during the workshop were:

On the one hand the Grigri Totem, a small wooden truck equipped with solar panels to connect a projector, illuminate or charge the mobile.

On the other hand, the Grigri Relax, a rocker capable of producing energy and lighting from the joint movement of 2 or more people when rocking.

This second prototype was the starting point to design the production workshop that would take place in Dakar a few weeks later.

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Jardin Jet d’Eau DAKAR 2016

From April 25 to May 3, 2016 at Kër Thiossane and at the Jardin Jet d’Eau.

In the framework of the Afropixel Festival, the second Grigri Pixel manufacturing experience was developed in Dakar, between April 25 and May 3, 2016.

This festival, organized by the multimedia art center Kër Thiossane, dedicated this fifth edition to the reflection on the city, digital manufacturing and the production of urban common goods, was an ideal context for that second stage of the project in which the Grigri Pixel team was expanded with the incorporation of Adrián de Miguel, who joined to collaborate in registration and production work.

The proposed manufacturing workshop was carried out based on the premise of retaking the rocking prototype capable of producing energy and lighting carried out in the Madrid workshop. The objective was to rethink the previously investigated system and adapt it to collectively design and build a see-saw capable of illuminating the Jet d'Eau Garden, a community space managed by Kër Thiossane in collaboration with various neighbors inside a block of flats in the Sicap Liberté II neighborhood in Dakar.

Within the framework of the I Edition we participated in the Afropixel Festival, organized by the Kër Thiossane art center, with a workshop for the production of self-sufficient lighting prototypes.

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Thanks to the collaboration of 18 participants from 6 different African countries and with the essential support of Modou Ngom, one of the participants in the workshop in Madrid, a magical object was co-designed and manufactured for two weeks to illuminate the Garden with the movement produced by the swing of children when playing.

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IMAGES: Previous page: Afate and Abdoulaye with the wood prototype made during the workshop.

This page (up): Yago Torroja working with the participants in the solar cell welding.

This page (down): Hassane Dao during the manufacture of the grigri.

With this second experience, we sought to continue responding to some of the objectives of the program:

- Publicize collaborative digital design and manufacturing practices from the African continent, with special emphasis on the use of recycled materials and disposable technologies to produce objects.

- Disseminate critical and contemporary practices of free culture and digital manufacturing from the African continent.

- Share ways of making self-managed green spaces, in this case the Jardin Jet d’Eau in the city of Dakar.

- Facilitate free culture cooperation projects between the African nodes of Grigri Pixel and the learning communities of Medialab Prado.

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IMAGES: This page (up): Grigri electronics detail: light wheel feed.

This page (down): Light effect produced by the wheel in motion.

Next page: A moment during the final presentation of the self-sufficient see-saw prototype at the Jardin Jet d’Eau.

This second experience of Grigri Pixel continued and completed the line initiated in Madrid in terms of the manufacture of energy self-sufficient urban furniture, as well as the development of works in the context of a community garden space.

Starting from the rocking chair prototype made in Madrid, we worked on adapting the system designed to be used in the manufacture of a seesaw, that could provide a recreational space for the Jet d'Eau Garden that did not have any area of this kind.

Continuing with the same idea of producing electricity from the kinetic energy generated by the movement when playing, this grigri was built incorporating a luminous and interactive mobile element manufactured from a bicycle wheel.

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Participants: From Senegal: Hamidou Ba, Mamadou Barry, Moustapha Coly, Moddio Daff, Jeremie Roland Diatta, Awa Diouf, Mame Mor Faye, Issa Guéye, Fatime Mbengue, Pape Assane Ndao, Daouda Ngom, Mohamadou Ngom y Joséphine S. Séne.

From Camerún: Cyrille Essoh.

From Mali: Abdoulaye Bouaré.

From Congo: Stiven Briand Massala.

From Togo: Afate Gnikou.

From Burkina Faso: Jacob Sawadogo.

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Espacio Vecinal Arganzuela MADRID 2017

From October 2 to 15, 2017 in Medialab Prado and in the Espacio Vecinal de Arganzuela.

On Monday, October 2, 2017, the II Edition of Grigri Pixel started in Madrid. The African initiatives, the local EVA group and the program of activities that would take place during the following days were presented at Medialab Prado: the construction workshop, the video-mapping workshop with the AV Floss team; the seminar on "The invisible, the common and the magical"; the “Cook your Grigri” workshop with the Cocinar Madrid collective and the 3D printer construction workshop based on recycled computer material with Afate.

The team of guests: Bay Dam from Senegal, Ismael Essome from Cameroon, Mané Ndeye from Senegal , Aderemi Adegbite from Nigeria and Afate Gnikou from Togo.

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After the presentation they began a series of workshops conducted by each of the four African guests. Each session took up the results of the previous workshop and among all the parameters that the grigri design would meet were defined. In addition, each workshop followed the same structure: it served, at first, to learn more about each of the invited African experiences and their local context, and then to apply the lessons learned from these experiences to the EVA context. Each of these possible applications would address a different dimension of the grigri: the first one, facilitated by Mané, would deal with the CONCEPT of the grigri around food; the second, facilitated by Afate, would ask about the FORMALIZATION of the grigri from the ideas that emerged from the previous workshop; the third workshop, led by Ismael, would review the SUSTAINABILITY of the grigri's formal proposals and their connection with the neighborhood space; and the fourth, led by Aderemi, would try to see how the grigri could connect with the EVA and Arganzuela neighborhood COMMUNITY. E S PA C I O V E C I N A L A R G A N Z U E L A

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This page (down): Ismael Essome during the manufacture of the grigri.

The first three days were dedicated then to develop these four iterations of the possible grigri. Through each workshop, we were devising, concretizing and deciding collectively what the protective amulet for EVA should be.

The main challenge was how to connect all the proposals to each other in a coherent way, towards the same purpose.

The Grigri that we built for EVA tells us about the past, about food and that old market of fruits and vegetables that now partially occupies EVA; it is installed in the present, it makes a wink to the activities that EVA carries out every week around mobility and bicycles; and it is projected towards a future desire to open up to the neighborhood, to welcome other neighborhoods of Arganzuela and to continue growing as a project.

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IMAGES: This page (up): Mane Ndèye preparing a mafe in EVA during the “Cook your grigri” workshop.

This page (down): Last day of manufacture of the grigri in the courtyard of Medialab Prado.

Next page: Intervention of Marina Garcés during the seminar held at Intermediae.

On Saturday, October 14, the results of the work were presented. The EVA grigri is an amulet that protects us and takes care of the common spaces.

It is a magical object and also a useful object that helps a group of people to cook together. It only works well if several people agree and deploy it among all.

The EVA grigri can also move, move and exit procession, with the help and push of others. For the magic of the EVA grigri to be activated, one must communicate, listen and try to understand each other.

He needs the generosity and openness that allows him to enter and welcome others. The EVA grigri is done with the will and desire to do with others. He has a lot of commitment, learning and mutual trust. The grigri also serves to congregate and celebrate, to meet and "be" with others.

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In the seminar "The invisible, the common and the magical" the invited speakers - Marina Garcés, Paz Núñez, Simon Njami, and Abu Ali - reflected, from their respective experiences, on how to live together, from the differences, in urban common spaces and the role played by the symbolic, the magical and the invisible in the creation of common imaginary.

The seminar functioned as a space to think and debate publicly about what are some of the practices, gestures, looks and everyday knowledge that, both from one place and the other, and crossed with each other, could help us build urban meeting spaces for live together in diversity.

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Taula Eix Pere IV BARCELONA 2017

From November 2 to 12, 2017 in Hangar and in the Passatge TrullĂ s.

The magic of Grigri lies in the fact of sharing with others a process of collaborative imagination, creation and construction. In that collaboration, knowledge, ways of doing and visions are exchanged about the city, its common spaces and what it is that we believe takes care of and protects us as inhabitants of those spaces. But for that exchange to take place, as Simon Njami said during his visit to the Madrid seminar, there is a need for recognition of the other: only when we recognize others as equals, as one, can we welcome and apprehend all that can offer us And vice versa. At that moment is when the magic of Grigri begins to activate. Therefore, although the construction workshop began on November 2 in Hangar, in reality, the Grigri was launched almost a year earlier, with the first conversations we had with the neighbors of the Taula del Eix Pere IV to explore the possibilities of collaboration

During the II Edition of 2017 we were invited to conduct a production workshop in Hangar, in the Poblenou of Barcelona in collaboration with the Taula Eix Pere IV, neighborhood association.

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From these previous conversations, from the participation in numerous assemblies and meetings with neighbors, from listening to the analysis that the Taula had previously made about the neighborhood, the first proposals emerged: the Grigri would go to the TrullĂ s Passage, a public space in the Pallars crossing with Pere IV that, after long claims and neighborhood struggles, was moderately conditioned by the City Council so that the surrounding neighbors would energize it. Twice a year, coinciding with the neighborhood parties, the Bogatell Neighborhood and Neighborhood Association organized the neighborhood parties there.

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IMAGES: Previous page: Preparing the grigris for the procession from Hangar to the Passatge TrullĂ s.

This page (up): A moment during the manufacture of solar panels with Gabriela, Yaiza, Dame and AdriĂĄn.

This page (down): One of the work teams doing carpentry work to assemble one of the grigris.

The group of participants was made up of people of different ages and training profiles although architecture and design predominated.

Also among the participants were neighbors from the neighborhood, around the passage, which helped the grigri design and construction process to be done in a localized manner and to respond to the reality of the context.

Also, the participation of three people of Senegalese origin, two of them members of the Diomcoop cooperative, dedicated to commercial activities, facilitated this exchange of knowledge and imaginary with the African continent that the project seeks. This was reinforced by the work of the guest makers, Zaineb El Fasiki, from Morocco; and Modou Ngom, from Senegal.

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IMAGES: This page (up): The grigris about to finish with the assembly and painting work.

This page (down): The grigris take to the streets as an element of play during a neighborhood meeting at the Passatge.

Next page: Pilgrimage or procession of the grigris from Hangar to be taken to their final destination in the Passatge TrullĂ s.

In the initial days of the workshop, the group of participants, divided into four teams, had to design their bank proposals, with their particular functionalities.

From these initial debates, four proposals came out: a sunbed; a bench of two, to sit or lie face to face; a bench with holes and perforations, so that children can go through it and play inside its structure; and a bench divided into two whose parts could work together, like a podium at different levels, or separate.

There was also the possibility of incorporating a solar panel to each bench and thus feeding with solar energy some strips of colored LED lights that would illuminate the banks.

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Towards 12h the final day of the workshop begins the "pilgrimage" of the grigris that, marching in procession, will bring the luck and protection of the amulets towards the TrullĂ s passage.

There, a meal prepared by the Union of Street Vendors awaits us to share with the neighbors and with all the people who came to celebrate the arrival of the grigris. We are accompanied by neighbors of the Taula del Eix Pere IV and the neighborhood, Santi de EVA (Arganzuela Neighborhood Space) coming from Madrid, friends and classmates of the participants ... We eat and chat with others while we lie down, sit and play in / with the grigris .

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Right to the City MADRID 2018

From October 15 to 28, 2018 in Medialab Prado and in the Barrio de las Letras.

The third edition of Grigri Pixel, held from October 15 to 28 in Medialab Prado, revolved around the theme of the Right to the City, launching objects, actions and a collective investigation, which has resulted in a festive intervention as of Pilgrimage through the Barrio de Las Letras.

The ultimate goal of this action was to conjure and re-enchant the No-Plaza, an undefined urban space that is located at the crossroads between Calle de la VerĂłnica and Calle de Gobernador. Our purpose was to carry out a vindication of common life in the city as a place of meeting and collective creativity, and to appeal, from this experience, to other memories and imaginary of a multicultural and diverse citizenship.

The team of guests: Mama Kone from Bamako, Abdellah M. Hassak from Casablanca, Mmakhotso Lamola from Cape Town and Lalya Gaye of swedish-senegalese nationality.

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During the months prior to the workshop, we worked with entities linked to the right to the city, especially in the neighborhood of Las Letras and LavapiĂŠs, to provide information and new contacts for the diagnosis prior to the workshop.

From these conversations, the project was disseminated and possibilities for collaboration were explored. These meetings also gave the opportunity to expand the diversity of participants in the workshop, including both people from the neighborhood and people from migrant groups, and to create new complicities and collaborations. From this diagnosis, we were able to prepare a Context Kit, a guide document to deliver to guests and collaborators.

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IMAGES: Previous page: A moment during the Pilgrimage for the Right to the City in its tour of the Barrio de las Letras.

This page (up): Commissioning of one of the processional objects.

This page (down): Teamwork, making the felt pots to hang on the wooden structures of the processional objects.

Illustrations (up): Drawings made by Sara Fratini collecting the entire process.

On Tuesday, October 16, the meeting Shared diagnosis: the right to the city in Madrid took place with the participation of SOS Racismo Madrid, CS La Ingobernable, EV Arganzuela, the Manteros Union of Madrid and also the Neighborhood Association Sol de las Letras.

The purpose of this open meeting was to develop a shared diagnosis about daily life in the Barrio de las Letras and how it is affected by recent urban transformations.

From the invited experiences, in dialogue with the contributions of the public, we analyzed and discussed how to defend, in practice, the right to the city on a neighborhood scale such as Las Letras: what difficulties do we encounter, what tools do we have or what objectives we set ourselves as neighbors and citizens.

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IMAGES: This page (up): Mama Kone shows us the song she has prepared for the pilgrimage during the “Cook your Grigri” workshop at the Guatemala Community Center.

This page (down): Departure of the pilgrimage from Medialab Prado.

Next page: The pilgrimage as it passes through one of the streets of the Barrio de las Letras.

Illustrations (up): Drawings made by Sara Fratini collecting the entire process.

On Saturday, October 20, the seminar Right to the city - Right to other urban imaginaries took place, whose objective was to share experiences, reflections and imaginaries that, from African and European cities, will help us think about what it means the right to the city, what challenges its defense poses to us and what conditions should be met to achieve it, especially when we focus on the historical centers of cities and their architectural and cultural heritage, until we turn them into common goods of all and for all.

For this, Ibrahima Wane, from the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Monza KANE Limama, rapper and cultural activist from Nouakchott, Cherimus, artistic collective from Sardinia and Itziar González, architect and urban planner from Barcelona.

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As part of the activities carried out during the Pilgrimage and the final day of the workshop, on Sunday October 28 a public vote was held to propose a name for the “nameless� square. Plants from the municipal plant nursery were also delivered to neighbors and other people, attending the activity, that was an excuse for mapping assistance.

Finally, there was an open radio activity "Radio my neighborhood" with interviews with attendees. This activity was recorded and is part of a sound archive along with records of the daily life of the neighborhood and its memory or the acoustic concert performed by Reuben Odoi Yemoh and Neus Kita Fatma.

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Hospitality MADRID 2019

From May 23 to October 28, 2019 at Medialab Prado and at SERCADE.ong.

In 2019, the fourth edition of Grigri Pixel is celebrated with a program that revolves around the theme of hospitality and has two main objectives: on the one hand, reflect on the power that arises in a territory when it is able to open, facilitate the encounter and give rise to that apparently different, foreign and strange and; on the other hand, to demonstrate the capacity of these processes to enrich each other's people, expanding their horizons and common imaginary.

Through a multiple collaboration at the local level between Medialab Prado, Sercade (reception center for migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa) and the Neighborhood Association of the Las Letras neighborhood, we propose a program of actions to be developed together with people who want to join, punctually or continuously, to bring knowledge and experiences with the aim of elaborating and sharing narratives, imaginary and points of view on the idea of "we" in the city of Madrid.

Part of the team of community mediators: Yannick Tresor, Ibrahima Sarry, Mamadou Kamate, Steve Zedong y Talla Fall. Missing in the photo: Nasser Sokante, Mamadou Fofana, Abdou Azizi y Ousmane Balde

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The program will be organized from May to June from three sessions, a conversation between Marina GarcĂŠs and Felwine Sarr in Madrid, and a workshop in Niamey, Niger. The objective of these activities is to outline a framework for reflection and common action that will serve as the basis for the two-week intensive workshop during the month of October in Medialab Prado.

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IMAGES: Previous page: A moment during the conversation between Marina Garcés and Felwine Sarr in the Plaza de Letras, in front of Medialab Prado.

This page (up): One of the work tables during the previous sessions for the drafting of the Hospitality Manifesto.

This page (down): Part of the stamps made in one of the previous sessions for the manufacture of a Hospitality Teaser.

What makes us "neighbors"?

What agreements can we reach to be able to recognize ourselves in shared collective identities, and from plural and inclusive sense of belonging?

In what ways can we formalize, symbolically and materially, the commitment and mutual recognition with others, with our neighborhood and city?

From May to June we launched four sessions to generate a common framework from which to regain confidence in doing together in the face of the challenge of building a city and community among people who belong to “worlds”, a priori, distant and alien.

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IMAGES: This page (up): Reading of the Hospitality Manifesto carried out by the Community Mediators team.

This page (down): One of the work tables during the previous sessions for the preparation of the Trajectory Maps.

Next page: A moment during the conversation between Marina Garcés and Felwine Sarr.

During the three consecutive Thursday afternoons - May 23 and 30 and June 6 - we have developed an open and free program composed of three workshops to exchange and materialize transit, migration and hospitality experiences with the migrant community of Africa Sub-Saharan SERCADE center.

The workshops combined reflection and material production, on the one hand, to shape a neighborhood manifesto or pact through the joint elaboration of a text that includes an idea of “we” and; on the other hand, collectively produce a teaser, an object composed of multiple pieces (one piece for each person involved in the work process) that, embedded together, symbolically materialize the pact reached.

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In the fourth session we invited Marina Garcés (UOC professor and philosopher from Barcelona) and Felwine Sarr (thinker and economist from Dakar) to a public conversation, outdoors in the Plaza de Letras, to think and share different forms and strategies to reestablish or generate feelings of belonging to a common territory that are not marked by the origin of the people who inhabit it, but by the fact of living, sharing and intervening in it.

How to make us meet? How to make the neighborhood or the city a "house"? or What makes us “neighbors”? These are some of the questions we try to answer.

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Les Chaises Koubeyni NIAMEY 2019

From June 17 to 30, 2019 in the Technical Office of Spanish Cooperation in Niamey and in the Arène Théâtre Space.

In the context of the fourth edition of Grigri Pixel a meeting was held in Niamey (Niger) to activate a reflection on hospitality in this territory, thanks to the invitation of Victor Franco, in charge of cultural affairs of the Embassy of Spain in Niamey.

The encounter, which takes place during the second half of June 2019, is presented as a continuation of the process initiated in Madrid in May of the same year, a work developed in collaboration with the NGO SERCADE and the community mediators program of the Casino de la Reina. During these previous sessions we reflected and made collective creations to approach a story about hospitality in the city of Madrid in collaboration with migrants who use Sercade services.

The aim of these previous sessions is to generate a framework that serves as a starting point for the intensive workshop planned in October, thus, throughout the meeting held in Niamey, work is being carried out around formats similar to those proposed in Madrid. On the one hand, a collective catalog of hospitality maps is prepared based on the personal trajectories of the participants. On the other hand, we are working on the drafting of a Hospitality Manifesto.

Within the framework of the IV Edition, we were invited by the Spanish Embassy in Niger to conduct a production workshop on the theme of Hospitality.

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Finally, a design and construction workshop is developed that results in the manufacture of a collective amulet: Les Chaises Koubeyni.

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IMAGES: Previous page: About to begin the presentation and final party at Arène Théâtre.

This page (up): Zainabou, one of the participants, during the manufacture of solar panels.

This page (down): Ali Narey, along with other participants, holding the textile pieces in the metal structures of Les Chaises Koubeyni.

The proposed design and construction workshop relied on two main elements: the construction of a furniture element capable of generating a reception space and the manufacture of an electronic system to provide self-sufficiency in terms of energy consumption to these furniture elements.

In this way the chairs of hospitality or Les Chaises Koubeyni arise, a space created collectively to read the manifesto of hospitality elaborated throughout the workshop. These chairs are also a place to lie down and protect from the Sahelian sun, they are a self-sufficient urban amulet that captures the sun's energy through self-constructed solar panels and that transforms it into lighting.

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IMAGES: This page (up): One of the attendees at the final presentation event.

This page (down): The hospitality chairs grouped together to form a small meeting space.

Next page (up): Ali Garba, Yaya Toure and Souleymane Abdou in the hospitality chairs during a moment of the final party.

Next page (down): Group photo with all the participants in the workshop a few moments before the final presentation.

Les Chaises Koubeyni are also a scenic resource for the Arène Théâtre company space, located in the Séno district, in the north of the city of Niamey.

This district was founded in 2012 to welcome people victims of the heavy floods of August of that same year, it is a neighborhood with all kinds of deficiencies and is also a place of reception of migrants from other African countries.

Thanks to the presence of the company in this territory, it links its activities with a particularly neglected and marginalized population, hosting, for example, part of the programming of the Bijini Bijini Festival of street arts, offering also artistic formations and cultural to the people who live nearby.

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Participants in the workshop:

Fatouma Akiné

Nana Kadidjatou Aboubacari

Moussa Gentil Mahaman Bachir

Mohamed Abdoulmunime

Jean Rene Kokoye

Ali Narey

Jhade Tawakal

Abdel-Razak Toure Seydou

Mouhamed Kitary Coulibaly

Mahamadou Illias Ango

Ismael Maman Boukari

Ali Garba

Abder Raouf Garba

Zeinabou Moussa Amadou

Zeinabou Lawali

Souleyman Abdou

Alhousseini Yaye Toure

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¿Hasta dónde se abre tu casa?

MADRID 2019

From October 14 to 26 2019 in Medialab Prado and SERCADE.

At the end of World War II, there were seven walls or fences throughout the world that prevented population transit between territories. Today, while rescue ships are prevented from docking in their ports, criminalizing their reception with the complicity of the entire European international community, who pay countries in conflict and without the basic humanitarian guarantees to jealously guard their borders, we count on with seventy-seven walls and fences around the world, most erected after September 11, 2001.

But these physical walls and fences also have their counterpart on a practical and discursive, ideological level. At the same time that in the general political sphere there is a return to the most essentialist identitarianisms, on an international scale independence movements proliferate and the most xenophobic and racist right resurfaces, defending national unity by reinforcing borders and taking the impoverished and migrant foreigner as a scapegoat to structural problems. On a local scale, inside cities, other socio-economic frontiers also appear with direct and unequal repercussions on bodies.

The team of guests: Gildas Guiella from Ouagadougou, Nana Kadidjatou from Niamey, Amadou Mbaye from Gandiol, Meryem Aboulouafa from Casablanca and Ana Raquel Machava from Maputo.

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To do this, we propose to take as a work axis for our workshops and reflections the practice of hospitality and the figure of neighbors (in community) as a collective subject whose power lies in the fact of “coming” to a territory, sharing it, inhabiting it, defining it and giving life to it from practice and the common present, regardless of the origin of each one.

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IMAGES: Previous page: About to start the presentation and final party in the Plaza de Letras.

This page (up): Guildas, founder of OuagaLab, along with Steve, Adam and Lena, participants in the workshop, during the session held at SERCADE. This page (down): Adriana, Blanca, Yanelys, Paula and Natou during the preparation of the communication resources of the collector team.

This page (images strip): Some moments during the manufacture of the inflatable, the cart and the grigri-box; these were the three objects or grigris resulting in the three working groups proposed during the development of the workshop.

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Through multiple collaboration between Medialab Prado, SERCADE and the Association of Neighbors of the Las Letras neighborhood, we want to ask ourselves a series of common questions and propose a program of actions, workshops and seminars that, throughout the year (with a series of workshops and a discussion) and now, in October (with the construction workshop and the seminar), help us to answer them partially and to get a little closer to our objective.

The framework of hospitality and welcoming gestures are very useful for us to work on common urban spaces because they require us to open (ourselves) and give space and place to what is yet to be known, to the unknown, the apparently different, foreign and strange, but that promises a transformative encounter. Or at least, disruptive.

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IMAGES: This page (up): One of the performances that took place during the final presentation party.

This page (down): A group of people inside the inflatable attending the projection of the film that included the work of collecting stories about hospitality.

Next page (up): Paula Domingo, Serigne Mbaye and Abdourahmane Seck during the seminar held in Sercade.

Next page (down): Group photo with all the participants in the workshop a few moments before the final presentation.

Images strip: Different situations inside the inflatable during its use and manufacture.

Hospitality, then, is not only the practice of welcoming the foreigner, but of everything different, outsider, that arises on the margins of a society or on the limits of our thinking. Where until now the possible ended.

Therefore, starting from an initial trust and without guarantees (we do not know what will result from the encounter), hospitality helps us expand what it is possible, to identify our own borders, limits, hierarchies, prejudices, assumptions and fears to interrogate, question, try to cross them , grow and open ourselves, not without difficulties, to mutual learning and (self) knowledge through questioning and displacement of our respective starting points: geographical but also "of view" and privileges.

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The hospitality that frames the Grigri Pixel 2019 seeks to be a cosmopolitan practice that takes freedom of movement for granted and that equalizes us in the right to difference and to access, transit, be and remain in a place. But welcoming us and giving (us) a place does not refer only to offering and receiving physical and geographical space, to having a roof; but also to be able to transit and inhabit common identities and welcoming and inclusive inter-subjective places that are “homeâ€? - made of experiences, bodies, memories, shared imaginary‌ -. Make (us) a common place and feel that we belong: start from ourselves to leave ourselves and become (us) others.

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