1, 2, 3 for the Ravine Project. Capes off to the ground

Abstract

This is an exercise in systematizing the experience of the project 1, 2, 3 for the ravine,  from which the group of Ecoguardas de Tarango was formed, with boys and girls from the peri-urban colonies El Ruedo and La Milagrosa, at the barranca de Tarango (Area of ​​Environmental Value in the west of Mexico City). The project aimed to generate experiences located in the realities of the ravine that would allow the children to reconfigure their relationship with the space and environment, human and non-human, under a paradigm of care. This document identifies five practices that from the ecocentric approach were key in this intervention: Feel, investigate, document, do, and celebrate. A theoretical approach is also made to place this experience in the face of contemporary theoretical trends and debates that call into question dominant paradigms that relegate the political-ecological, the educational and the sensitivity of the experiences to a second term. We close the document by recognizing how the reflections embodied in this text are partly fueled by the experience of confinement generated by COVID-19 pandemic.