UN’ESPERIENZA PARTECIPATA TRA PAESAGGIO E ARTE NEL MESSICO NORD-ORIENTALE

Abstract

A PARTICIPATORY EXPERIENCE BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND ART IN THE NORTH-EAST OF MEXICO

This article illustrates the participatory modalities adopted in a recent experience bridging
between landscape-design and land-art in the Sierra Madre Oriental of northern Mexico.
While briefly summarizing the structure of the work within its natural and metropolitan
context, this text focuses on the description of participatory collective methodologies and
processes that involved groups of performers, artists, activists, and finally primary-school
pupils in the region. In particular, the text describes the reciprocal contaminations that
occurred between the research group and the activist-artist collectives in the conception
phase, then, the shared moment of the first exploration of the intervention, and, finally, the
methodology adopted in evaluating the impact of the experience on the young visitors.
Final conclusions draw a balance of the experience and cast possible scenarios for future
work.
Keywords: co-creation, participatory implementation, environmental awareness