Fear: Alfredo Cohen
Communicating is putting in common. Communicating does not have to do with inoculating, selling, proposing, or presenting ideas to other people. Communicating seriously, communicating truly, is much simpler and at the same time more complex than the emitter-receiver and message relationship that we were once taught at school. The communication in which we believe in elParlante Will “An essential and inherent function of human nature, which goes far beyond mass means of information and includes horizontal and participatory processes through which two or more human beings share experiences, interests and feelings face-to-face or remotely, aided by technology.” (Kaplún, 1998)
Thus, the type of communication that we try to put into practice in our projects is that which is the construction and circulation of senses, a polysemic category that includes different meanings of the social sciences and that in culturally heterogeneous contexts such as Catalan, has to do with education, self-esteem, critical awareness, social norms, collective action, participation in the information society, but also in everyday life and its social cohesion. Thus, we seek that our initiatives are inspired by Habermas’ communicative action with which he refers to “the interaction of at least two subjects capable of language and action who (either with verbal means or with extraverbal means) establish an interpersonal relationship” (Habermas, 124: 1987)
What the projects of sensitization, collective creation, as well as the socializations, training or research that we carry out are looking for, is to go far beyond the devices, the technology itself or the transmission of mass information. We have understood from the beginning that communicative processes are a dimension of sociocultural processes, which is why what interests us is people and their discussions, their sensibilities, their ability to deliberate. We are interested in people from schools, neighborhoods, streets and institutions. And then, if communication is shared, we understand that there is something previous that is shared, something prior to which you can participate, in which you can collaborate.
Thus, we want to end this post by sharing two co-creation processes that we carried out in two very different scenarios: the neighborhood of El Raval in Barcelona and the municipality of Sabanalarga in the Colombian Caribbean. Both experiences share work methodology and despite the differences in contexts, the results end up being similar: the generation of spaces open to positive interaction and the empowerment of young people to inform, express themselves and discuss issues that affect them.
Process behind project cameras
Ravalead@s TV
Behind the camera process of the Yamaró project