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Desierto de los Leones Urban Intervention
Desierto de los Leones Urban Intervention
After walking the National Park, the team of SEED realized that the Desert of Lions has many different spiritual areas to pray, called ermitas, this ermitas are small churches in the middle of the woods far from the population, and they were built many years ago for the Ermitanos (people that used to live inside the woods).
Today the people in the area had forgotten how spiritual is this national park in Mexico, and mostly they go to practice sports and to make bbq's.
We decided that an urban intervention in the Ermita San Elias wood be appropriate, having the porpouse of creating conscience.
We believe in the escence of human creativity as a tool to express. So we started two different exercises at the same time: the first was to paint, and the second was to collect all the trash that we found on the entrance to the Ermita San Elias.
People were avoiding completely this parts of the park, they didn't had the curiosity to go inside, and we realized that they didn't have respect for it because they were throwing garbage everywhere.
We started to create a path made of garbage outside of the entrace to the ermita. That path, in the middle is tranfromed in to pieces of nature creating the transformation of a non pure peregrinantion to a pure one. This intervention was to force the people to enter and observe.....................
The idea of entering a sacred place by following garbage transformed into nature was something that expressed our feelings very clear. we wanted the people to see, we wanted the people to feel, and mostly we wanted the people to have a pleasant experience.
We hanged the artworks in a rock wall at the entrance, so once the people enter the site ,they would find a work of art that in our opinion its a work that expresses freedom.
SEED(SUSTAINABLE,ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL DESIGN)
Today the people in the area had forgotten how spiritual is this national park in Mexico, and mostly they go to practice sports and to make bbq's.
We decided that an urban intervention in the Ermita San Elias wood be appropriate, having the porpouse of creating conscience.
We believe in the escence of human creativity as a tool to express. So we started two different exercises at the same time: the first was to paint, and the second was to collect all the trash that we found on the entrance to the Ermita San Elias.
People were avoiding completely this parts of the park, they didn't had the curiosity to go inside, and we realized that they didn't have respect for it because they were throwing garbage everywhere.
We started to create a path made of garbage outside of the entrace to the ermita. That path, in the middle is tranfromed in to pieces of nature creating the transformation of a non pure peregrinantion to a pure one. This intervention was to force the people to enter and observe.....................
The idea of entering a sacred place by following garbage transformed into nature was something that expressed our feelings very clear. we wanted the people to see, we wanted the people to feel, and mostly we wanted the people to have a pleasant experience.
We hanged the artworks in a rock wall at the entrance, so once the people enter the site ,they would find a work of art that in our opinion its a work that expresses freedom.
After the art work was left hanging on the wall, we started to document and observe the reaction of the people.
Here are a few images of families, friends and couples that entered the Ermita by following the peregrination.
We realized that the effect on the people was positive and pleasant, they expressed curiosity and happines, and many of them reacted by laughing out loud.
Here are a few images of families, friends and couples that entered the Ermita by following the peregrination.
We realized that the effect on the people was positive and pleasant, they expressed curiosity and happines, and many of them reacted by laughing out loud.
SEED(SUSTAINABLE,ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL DESIGN)
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