Ynode – Caminu a su Connottu – Exhibition Tierra

Abstract

In various parts of the world we are witnessing massive ecological impact due to human activity and exploitation of the land perpetuated by economic agents, whose interests are far from the local communities of the territories under attack. The phenomenon of land grabbing is responsible, in certain areas, not only for the compromise of the landscape and the exploitation of the land, but also for the destruction of local economic activities, which increases the impoverishment of communities and the phenomenon of depopulation. The rural communities are often too small to be able to thwart the projects of large corporations or the government decisions that are made many miles away. Furthermore, within the same communities we can witness divisions between those who perhaps accept the new impositions, with the hope of being able to benefit from new income, and those who do not want to give up. The false and illusionary promises of development, promoted by the greed of the economic agents without any knowledge of the story of the place, could be fought with the construction of a new communitarian vision and an alternative dream of development. This may be the only possible way to be independent of external decisions imposed by others. This article aims to propose another vision through the description of a project whose aim was to spread small seeds, by imagining another possible future path, cultivating hope.