Geodesic greenhouse made from reused blinds
ATTENTION: THIS PROJECT IS REGISTERED IN THE LINE OF WORK “SELF-BUILT LIGHTWEIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR URBAN GARDENS” OPEN WITH “THE TREE” WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BE EXPANDED AND FURTHER DEFINED IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
FOR ITS CORRECT UNDERSTANDING IT IS NECESSARY TO STUDY HIS BACKGROUND.
We like to organize our workshops so that they can be developed along two lines of work.
The first, most obvious, is the strictly didactic one in which the proposed teaching plan is developed to reach the established objective.
The second, even more formative, begins exactly at the moment when the regulated activity ends.
It can be said that true learning does not end, but rather begins when the regulated activity is over, since participants are invited to try to use the acquired knowledge and the prototypes produced in the real world.
It can be said that true learning does not end, but rather begins when the regulated activity is over, since participants are invited to try to use the acquired knowledge and the prototypes produced in the real world.
Open cages University in transition
In October, at the end of the Escala Local workshop , not finding any immediate initiative to which to donate the structures produced, we took them back to Seville with us.
As announced, we were interested in donating the structures to an initiative that could value them and benefit from them. We hoped that this would be in Malaga to give the students involved in their creation the opportunity to continue with their commitment and the journey they started in the workshop, as well as to encourage their contact with social initiatives that are taking place in their environment and of which they were not aware at the time, in order to possibly begin to collaborate with them.
We thus came into contact with “ Jaulas Abiertas Universidad en Transición ” an association with educational purposes open to teachers and students and related to the University of Malaga. Jaulas Abiertas has an open-air classroom for non-regulated educational activities and workshops and an urban garden.
We immediately felt a connection with their proposals and they accepted our approach, which was not limited to the structures being useful and functional equipment for their garden program, but that they were, above all, a tool for the development of the students involved who would have carried out the adaptation of the existing structures to the requirements of the association in collaboration with Ctrl+Z.
They understood that this objective was worth waiting for the time necessary for the students to be able to organize themselves to carry out a project of limited dimensions, but in many cases their first real project.
In February, at the end of winter, various work days were organised to prepare the base and the surroundings, as well as a specific one for the assembly and installation of the dome, in which numerous volunteers participated.
We immediately felt a connection with their proposals and they accepted our approach, which was not limited to the structures being useful and functional equipment for their garden program, but that they were, above all, a tool for the development of the students involved who would have carried out the adaptation of the existing structures to the requirements of the association in collaboration with Ctrl+Z.
They understood that this objective was worth waiting for the time necessary for the students to be able to organize themselves to carry out a project of limited dimensions, but in many cases their first real project.
In February, at the end of winter, various work days were organised to prepare the base and the surroundings, as well as a specific one for the assembly and installation of the dome, in which numerous volunteers participated.
Conclusions
We try to take sustainability and coherence seriously in all phases of the processes we are involved in. Workshops and training activities are no exception, although the transfer of knowledge is the main objective of this type of activities, we try to ensure that the “physical products” produced in the workshops can be activated and can gain meaning in support of some worthy activity.
The materials and work involved should not be “non-returnable” but rather put at the service of society. Thanks to our deep understanding of the need for all this, we have found a way to turn them into a greenhouse for an urban garden linked to a more articulated ecological and educational project.
As a result, we hope that new activities will be developed in the future with the Jaulas Abiertas association and with the students involved.
We believe that this is the best way to successfully close the educational circle started with the workshop, to value its results, to create a community and contacts with similar initiatives and of course to have a good time!
This project has been developed in collaboration with the association “Jaulas Abiertas Universidad en Transición” (Pablo Torres Boza and Jochen Buchmaier and their team), and with Belén Rodriguez Heredia, Indira Estrada Vidal, Inmaculada Montilla Montilla, Juan Manuel Aragón Téllez and of course Juan Navarro Diaz, students of the Escala Local workshop who were deeply involved in the entire reconversion process.
The following volunteers have participated in the assembly:
Jordán Lamas Santiago, Isabel del Mar Benítez Toledo, Pablo Cristán Domínguez, Francisco Fontiveros Becerra, Adrian Lobillo Berenguer, Manuel Villarubia Rojano, Salvador Salgado Alcaraz, Elena Enciso Martínez, Manuel Palma Segovia, Cristina Martínez Alcalá-Galiano, Francisco Conejo Arrabal, María Lanzat Lanzat, Raquel Gómez Trasierra, Andrés Arjona Cuesta, Salvador Pascual Canyoner.
Special thanks to Germán López Mena, who couldn't join us this time, but we're counting on him!
Jordán Lamas Santiago, Isabel del Mar Benítez Toledo, Pablo Cristán Domínguez, Francisco Fontiveros Becerra, Adrian Lobillo Berenguer, Manuel Villarubia Rojano, Salvador Salgado Alcaraz, Elena Enciso Martínez, Manuel Palma Segovia,
Cristina Martínez Alcalá-Galiano, Francisco Conejo Arrabal, María Lanzat Lanzat, Raquel Gómez Trasierra, Andrés Arjona Cuesta, Salvador Pascual Barranquero.
Special thanks to Germán López Mena, who couldn't join us this time, but we're counting on him!
