KAOSPILOT Outpost in Bogota

The team of Kaospilot studetns have now chosen 8 projects that they will work with for 6 weeks, during their stay here. The projects are quite different in nature, here is an overview:

• Orfanato
• Idartes – Galeria Santa Fe
• Fundacion para Perdon y Reconciliacion – ESPERE Shop
• Kayros – Safe housing mural
• Somos Mas – Biblioteca Codito
• Yo Creo en Colombia – La Minga
• Maria Panela – Tienda Chocó
• The Hub Bogota

The Kaospilots will work with Orfanato, an alternative communication collective, working with design, image creating and street art.

The project has three main parts to develop a creative ORFANATO STUDIO, Publish the first version of the VISCERAL MAGAZINE and prepare the VISCERAL FEST, a festival for graffiti and street artists.

On the project the Kaospilots will work with a new gallery space in Teusaquillo, close to the 2011 homebase. The aim of the project is to foster an active usage of the space from different cultural and social groups, so they would make the most of it. The goal is that the work of the Gallery may be advanced into a whole new level of dialogue with the citizens over the next years.

For more information have a look here:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/IDARTES/121667137935541

The students will work with  The Fundación para la reconciliación, who has developed educational tools for peace and coexistence in Colombia and Latin America, through 4 lines of work:

• Political Culture of Forgiveness and Reconciliation,
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation Schools,
• Youthreconciliation Network,
• Centers for Reconciliation and Emotional Literacy,

The task of the students is to create a line of products that will position the brand in various global scenarios. They will work to

• Position alternative messages and attitudes conducive to creating environments for coexistence and peace.
• Make available to any person, products that invite him/her to think and act differently in their everyday relationships.
• Place the themes of forgiveness, Care and Reconciliation in the daily lives of people.

For more information about the foundation have a look here: www.fundacionparalareconciliacion.org

The Students will work with Ashoka Fellow Haidy Duque and her Organisazion Corporation Kayros on creating a mural in a local neighbourhood to help generate motivation for training and participation within the community.

The purpose and focus of this project is to guide families to build safer and in accordance with the standards of seismic resistance, so the houses can withstand earthquakes.

The purpose of creating the mural is to animate the community to have conversations about how to build more safely following some basic norms and to avoid vulnerability to seismic disturbance.

The students will work with Somos Mas to generate activities that can motivate the citizens in the neighbourhood of Codito to use their space and empower
them to find a model and process, where they can run their community center
themselves. They students will work with the local community leaders to build capacity and explore a way of community engagement that can create true ownership from the community. At the same time they will be exploring how this approach can be replicated in other similar projects.

See a small video about the project here