Mariana Martinez Balvanera
Goals and motivations
Inspired by the power of food and narratives to connect through identities, territories, and create spaces for strong resilient communities!
Designer, creative director and coordinator for socio-spatial community projects. I develop projects that stand in the intersection between social design, placemaking and participatory arts in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams. Embedded in different contexts, these processes create spaces for exchange, understanding and new collective sense of place.
Co-Founder of Cocina Colaboratorio (CoLaboratory Kitchen), a project that brings farmers, scientists, creatives and chefs together around the kitchen table to connect, exchange knowledge and prototype new trans-disciplinary solutions to farming; a test ground for ideas that conciliate land restoration, conservation, food production and better livelihood in farming communities.
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