Podcast - Collective Futures. Radio IF
Collective Futures. Episode 1: Introduction
In this episode, we introduce a new initiative from IF: Collective Futures. A transdisciplinary platform created to make visible and foster connections between practices devoted to the collective improvement of the environments we inhabit.
Throughout the different episodes, we will encounter the collectives and protagonists that make up this constellation of collective experiences—emerging at a time when such efforts are often discouraged.
Collective Futures. Episode 2: What is the Escuchatorio?
In this episode of Collective Futures, we introduce another dimension of the initiative: The Drift of Collective Futures. A journey through various community spaces with the aim of opening space for conversation aboard the Escuchatorio.
But what exactly is the Escuchatorio?
Collective Futures. Episode 3: On Territories and Their Interpretations
Having introduced what Collective Futures is about, we now begin to delve into related themes—such as, in this case, the concept of territory, its multiple interpretations, its recurring uses, and the experiences related to listening to it.
Collective Futures. Episode 4: Paradigm Park. Relics of a Greater Conflict
In this episode, we begin conversations with the various members that make up the Collective Futures platform. On this occasion, we speak with participants in the events that led to the creation of Paradigm Park, discussing its origins, its multiple foundations, and its most recent formats, such as the FestivAE. Our guests include Ariel Cusnir, Nicolás Bacal, Tom Werth, and Xiel Castelar, with Leonello Zambón contributing from both sides of this exchange.
Collective Futures. Episode 5: MACMO. Resisting the Mandate of Immediacy
In this episode, we meet with Eugenia González (in Buenos Aires) and Agustina Rodríguez (from Montevideo), directors of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montevideo – MACMO.
A museum without a fixed location, a museum in the making: a symbolic, relational, and constantly evolving space that seeks to activate contemporary art as a tool for critical reflection, collective imagination, and situated action.
MACMO is simultaneously an artwork, an institution, and an artistic practice, redefining how public space connects with artists, collectives, communities, and individuals, moving within a flexible, nomadic, and perpetually transforming structure.
Collective Futures. Episode 6: Rowing Against the Current. Persistence as a Task
Rowing Against the Current for Water and Life is a socio-environmental campaign denouncing the impacts of the extractivist model imposed on the Paraná River, particularly through the Paraguay-Paraná Waterway Project. Its primary aim is to defend water, environmental, and territorial sovereignty, shedding light on the challenges faced by river ecosystems and riparian communities. It also seeks to strengthen collective organization, citizen participation, and legal actions to halt the advance of extractivism and restore sovereign management of the Paraná River. Franc Paredes joins us to discuss these issues and the challenges posed by collective projects.
In this episode, we talk with Carolina Andreetti, Juliana Ceci, and Carlos Gradin, members of the Expeditions to Puerto Piojo collective. They have undertaken the live reconstruction of a fragment of coastline in Dock Sud, within the current Petrochemical Hub, which was once a popular riverside resort. The recovery of forgotten histories, reflections on riverside identity and popular culture, and the group’s process of building an archive are some of the topics we explore in this conversation.
Collective Futures. Episode 8. Building Collectively. Questions Arise from Practice
In this episode, we welcome Verónica Copello, Nicolás Spangenberg, and Agustín Díaz, members of Construir Colectivo. Together, we discussed their commitment to territorial work, activism, and the potential of architecture as a tool for improving community-based popular habitats. Practices, experiences, commitments, trajectories, and the collective construction of a theory around these processes were all present in a deeply inspiring conversation.
Collective Futures. Episode 9. Popular Archive of Villa 20. We Are All Historical Figures
The life of a neighborhood through its history, the awareness of the present arising from the understanding of its past, and the idea of a community in continuous unfolding that pays tribute to those who came before—these are some of the themes discussed in this conversation with Ari Nahon, Daniel Alva and Damary Peña Semo, who joined us on behalf of those keeping this archive alive as a commitment to a shared future.
The Popular Archive of Villa 20 is living collective memory.