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Cacao Futures Workshop: Cultivating Sumaq Kawsay
By Munay Kollektiv at BIPoC Climate Justice Conference 2025 (Spain), September 2025.
We presented a workshop that invites us to rethink cocoa not as a simple commodity, but as a symbol of memory, connection, and resistance in Abya Yala. Through a participatory methodology that intertwines critical exposition, sensory memory, and collective creation, we will explore cocoa as a portal to ancestral Quechua knowledge, climate justice, and decolonization.
From Andean perspectives, we will ask ourselves: What stories inhabit cacao? What violence, care, and pleasures run through it? How can we transform it into a political and affective tool for Sumak kawsay (good living)?
Through touch, aroma, and words, we will open an intimate space to connect with our food and territorial memories. To conclude, each participant will create a speculative visual manifesto that expresses a vision of cacao beyond extractivism: as a link, an offering, and an act of care.
Collaborative speculative visual manifesto
Practicing the Andean Worldview: Decolonial Tools to Reimagine the Museum
By Benazir Basauri Torres at the International Image Festival (Colombia), May 2025.
I presented a workshop that invited participants to engage with the Andean worldview as a set of decolonial tools to rethink the museum beyond its institutional and colonial frameworks. Through a collective and participatory approach, the workshop created an open and welcoming space to share stories and knowledges.
Together, we reimagined the museum as a place of care: a space where silence is filled with the sounds of native birds, where Indigenous languages are heard beyond imposed and normative forms of communication, and where the museum becomes by and for the community. From Andean perspectives, we asked: What does it mean to decolonize the museum? Whose voices are present, and whose are absent? How can the museum become a living, relational space?
Through making, listening, and collective reflection, participants engaged in hands-on praxis, exploring alternative ways of creating and relating. The workshop fostered a space of collaboration, care, and shared imagination, where new possibilities for the museum could emerge.
My participation was gracefully supported by the congress funds of
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Creation of a collaborative collage to reimagine the museum
International Space Aalborg #1 Workshop
By Benazir Basauri Torres at International House North Denmark (Denmark), July 2026
I led a workshop to assess the needs of the international community in Aalborg, gathering participants over a shared dinner to exchange ideas, share experiences, and build connections.
Special thanks to the engaged and diverse participants, the European Union for co-funding the event, and the International House North Denmark for providing the space.
I look forward to developing more projects with and for the international community in Aalborg.
Co-funded by the European Union.
We shared ideas and connected over a collaborative session around a dinner
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