The book Patios Silvestres (Wild courtyards. Recommendations for the design of outdoor spaces in schools) is the result of almost two years of work in a participatory process in which we have been involved together with Madrid City Council techniques, teachers from the following nursery schools: Luisa Fernanda, El Alba, Hiedra, Captain Grant’s nephews, Los Juncos […]
More photos of the project Context The school and kindergarten Manuel Núñez de Arenas is a public school in the neighborhood of Pozo de el Tío Raimundo, Madrid. Next to the school is the local football field, which use and opening hours are restricted. The best way to access the football field is to jump […]
Basurama participated in the exhibition EXPO CRUZ curated by Paco Clavel in the traditional celebration of the “Cruces de Mayo” in Pastrana (Guadalajara). Basurama intervened one of the wooden crosses that were distributed to the 10 artists taking part in the exhibition. We try to make the cross usefull, to give it another propouse. We […]
We were at Lourdes School working with some of their students for the collective construction of a vertical garden and orchar. We built it from packaging materials such as plastic boxes and plastic bottles. The objective was to build the vertical garden as a prototype, so the students could work and study it during the […]
This should be in english. Basurama es un colectivo dedicado a la investigación, creación y producción cultural y medioambiental fundado en 2001 que ha centrado su área de estudio y actuación en los procesos productivos, la generación de desechos que éstos implican y las posibilidades creativas que suscitan estas coyunturas contemporáneas. Nacido en la Escuela […]
The installation is reusing more than 15.000 expire plastic water bottles to create a dystopic landscape to walk through. It represents a reflection on a possible future in which the environment as we know will have changed entirely and we will have to make our way through plastic geographies and salt crystals lakes. Only Geology […]
WATER MEMORIES ITINERANT OFFICE is an art installation made together with Rachel Schmidt in the frame of the The Water Office a project curated by Blanca de la Torre which through different workshops, The Water Office seeks to provide a platform for those voices acting as “trenches” in the “water wars” that were predicted at the end […]
The available abundance in our cities, together with the current model of consumption, comes with the generation of a massive quantity of residues. Madrid municipality produces and stores a great amount of materials of all kinds, including everything, from large publicity canvas to lamp posts). The great majority of those elements are still in good […]
For eight centuries, Spain was a Muslim country. During the whole middle ages, most of its culture was completely defined by the Arab heritage. Many features of that time still survive in modern Spain. Among them, the costume of hygiene and constant bathing, together with all water related technologies: irrigation, gardening, reflections, water follies and […]
SALVAJE is a proposal from the scenic arts collective LA TRISTURA for the course of cultural management AUTOBARRIOS SANCRISTOBAL. This festival has been organized together with the young trainees of the course #culturabajopuente: YasynHlaloum, Nuria Jiménez, Nhoa R. Palomo, Sandra Reyeros y César Romero. AutobarriosSanCristobalis a proyect of the creative collective Basurama & Sarah FdezDeutsch with the local associations Casa San Cristóbal-Fundación Montemadrid y Educación Cultura y […]