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CULTURAL & SOCIAL PROJECTS

Design · communication and visual storytelling rooted in territory · culture and community.

I work across visual communication, research and collaborative practices to support cultural, social and environmental projects. My work explores how design can create spaces for dialogue, preserve knowledge and make local stories visible.

RESEARCH

& PARTICIPATION

Disueña el territorio

ARTISTIC RESEARCH & CRITICAL PRACTICE

La Visceral / Ternura Radikal

TERRITORY & COMMUNITY

El Convite Campesino

CULTURE & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Worlding - Restorative Justice

CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE & PUBLICATIONS

Casas Bioculturales

01 - RESEARCH & PARTICIPATION

THE PROJECT

As a participatory action research project, this project explores experimental animation as a tool for creative expression and collective storytelling with children.

THE APPROACH

Through hands-on animation workshops, the project proposes creating spaces where children can explore their territories, memories and everyday experiences through drawing, movement and experimental image-making.

The methodology brings together participatory research, animation and community-based storytelling, using creative practice as a way to listen, document and build knowledge collectively.

MY ROLE

Research · Participatory Action · Experimental Animation · Community Engagement

1 SOCIAL
2 SOCIAL

02 - ARTISTIC RESEARCH & CRITICAL PRACTICE (BARCELONA)

LA VISCERAL

Research on unwanted loneliness among young people in Catalonia

 

THE PROJECT

La Visceral is an ongoing artistic research project exploring unwanted loneliness among young people in Catalonia. The project investigates loneliness not only as an individual experience, but also as a social and relational phenomenon shaped by contemporary ways of living and connecting.

 

Through artistic mediation and participatory approaches, the research explores how young people experience, express and understand loneliness, opening spaces for dialogue and collective reflection.

 

MY ROLE
Ongoing Research · Master's in Artistic Mediation

TERNURA RADIKAL

Artistic research · Political positioning

 

THE PROJECT

Ternura Radikal is an ongoing artistic research project that explores radical tenderness as a political and collective position. It questions how care, vulnerability, empathy and affection can become forms of resistance within contemporary social and political contexts.

 

The project uses artistic mediation and collective practice to explore tenderness not as something passive, but as a way of relating, resisting and imagining other forms of coexistence.

 

MY ROLE
Ongoing Research · Master's in Artistic Mediation

3 SOCIAL

03 - TERRITORY & COMMUNITY

EL CONVITE CAMPESINO

A network of rural and community-based projects

UBASUKA
Brand Identity

CORAZÓN DE FRAILEJÓN
Visual Identity

SYSE
Visual Communication

ESCUELA AGROECOLÓGICA
Photography · Documentation

 

4 SOCIAL

04 - CULTURE  SOCIAL JUSTICE

THE PROJECT

A short documentary created with Juliana Ramírez and the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Knowledge of Colombia, exploring cultural initiatives that use community spaces to strengthen dialogue, identity and social connection.

The film brings together stories from projects developed with Indigenous, Afro-Colombian, rural and Rrom communities across Colombia.

MY ROLE

Visual storytelling · Video · Editing · Production

THE RESULT

The film documents how cultural spaces can become places for meeting, memory and collective participation, giving visibility to diverse community-led initiatives across the country.

5 SOCIAL

05 - CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE & PUBLICATIONS

CASAS BIOCULTURALES

Conversations COP16 + Guide for Government and Community

THE PROJECT

A publication developed around biocultural housing and the relationship between territory, community, architecture and environmental knowledge.

The project brings together conversations and practical knowledge intended to support dialogue between communities and public institutions.

MY CONTRIBUTION

Editorial Design · Visual Communication · Publication Design

DESIGN AS A TOOL FOR CONNECTION

My practice moves between design, audiovisual storytelling, research and community-based work. I am interested in projects where visual communication can help preserve knowledge, strengthen identities and create connections between people and their territories.

Maria Alejandra Bustamante

Barcelona, Spain

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