Creating a Just Recovery for Puerto Rico

Dear GlobalGiving community,

The first three months of 2022 have stormed by! We are deeply grateful for your support, collaboration through this journey over the past four years.

As we transition out of a post-disaster model to a forward-looking creation standpoint, we launched theLaboratorio de Diseño Participativo (LDP)in February. The LDP is a project to share audiovisual and participatory design tools that allow prototyping, designing, and promoting creative solutions to the diversity of challenges faced by community groups across Puerto Rico in construction, infrastructures, public spaces, etc. We have partnered with four communities across Puerto Rico to facilitate and leverage the tools and resources needed to design the solutions that respond to their communities’ most pressing challenges. We are currently developing the plans for the first phase of the LDP to start in May with four unique communities! More on this collaboration soon!

The LDP is part ofNuestre Espacio Común “Our Common Space”(以下简称、NEC),一个研究的平台, plan, imagine and collectively build spaces that tell our stories and promote climate justice and equity in our communities. Recognizing the absence of accessible resources to carry out projects that advance climate justice through NEC La Maraña aims to disseminate participatory planning, design, and storytelling tools to organized communities, to enable transformations toward climate justice.

Parallel to the launch of LDP, we have been polishing the latest cut of theDesde Adentrodocumentary and the Cartuchera Comunitaria. Desde Adentro is undergoing its last editing phase before heading into post-production. In addition, we are planning the distribution of the documentary. Be on the lookout for our social media in the coming months as we launch the film’s social media and website!

As for theCartuchera Comunitaria(click to take a look), we have integrated it into the LDP and it will guide the workshops and activities moving forward with the different communities. As La Cartuchera stems from the work done in Imaginación Post Maria, we are very excited to share and use these tools with four different communities eager to transform their surroundings. We are currently revisiting the final texts and tools to launch parallel with the LDP communities in May.

During this time, we joined in celebration of the 20 years of GlobalGiving! It was an honor to be part of such an important achievement and event that brought together many community leaders and organizations from across the world. Thanks to all of you ,for supporting and enabling so many communities and projects worldwide to radically imagine, design and build a better present.

Abrazos,