Comunal is a collaborative team of women founded by the architects Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Jesica Amescua Carrera. As architects, they work in collaborations where building and designing are seen as evolving social processes. The built result is therefore made with the inhabitants rather than just for the inhabitants.
In this video, Jesica Amescua Carrera talks about their practice.
In the video photos are represented from various projects - According to the order as they appear in the video:
1. Manual of herbalism and traditional medicine in Nahuatl. Project carried out by the student community of the Digital Baccalaureate No. 186 of Tepetzintan, Sierra Noriental de Puebla.
2. Participatory design workshop with women as part of the "Social Reconstruction of the Habitat in Ixtepec" process. Project in collaboration with Ixtepecan families and the Ixtepecan Committee for the defence of life and territory.
3. Participatory design workshop to design the project "Tequiocalco. Campa tlachializtli mozcalaliztli in totlamatiliz huan toyuhcatiliz". Autonomous Center for Research and Revitalization of Community Knowledge (CAIRSCO).
4. Production of adobe in the Santa María Nativitas Coatlán community, located in the Sierra Mixe of Oaxaca. Project for the post-earthquake reconstruction of homes.
5. Self-production process of the Rural Productive School through mutual aid. Project in collaboration with the student community of the Digital Baccalaureate No. 186 of Tepetzintan, Sierra Noriental de Puebla.
6. Participatory design workshop to design the project "Tequiocalco. Campa tlachializtli mozcalaliztli in totlamatiliz huan toyuhcatiliz". Autonomous Center for Research and Revitalization of Community Knowledge (CAIRSCO).
7. Participatory diagnosis to collectively design a community kitchen in the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas. Project in collaboration with the inhabitants of Loma Bonita and Cocina Co-Laboratorio.
8. House self-produced by Roselia Rosado and her family as part of the "Social Reconstruction of the Habitat in Ixtepec" process. Project in collaboration with Ixtepecan families and the Ixtepecan Committee for the defence of life and territory.
Want to know more? Visit Comunal's website.
Concerning the designation of Copenhagen as The World Capital of Architecture 2023, the UIA- World Congress of Architects was held in Copenhagen from 02 to 06 July.
This video is part of a series featuring various speakers and participants contributing to the congress. The series is part of a collaboration between Arka and UIA - World Congress of Architects 2023.
Comunal participated at the UIA as speakers.
Want to know more? Visit UIA's website.
