Socio-ecological Co-creation Network for Latin America (RESACA)

OBJECTIVES

We are oriented to explore and develop co-creation methodologies from the transdisciplinary dialogue between art, science, politics, and society to respond to regional Socio-ecological challenges. In turn, collaborate in the generation of a theory that promotes the horizontality of knowledge from the promotion, creation, and circulation of knowledge to provide a shared vision among those who make up society, the sustainability sciences, the environmental humanities, and the arts. Furthermore, our purpose is to promote critical and epistemological reflection that allows the transformation of consciousness based on academic, public, and artistic knowledge as an entity that promotes change.

ABSTRACT

RESACA integrates professionals from the sciences, the arts, and the humanities from different regions of the South American continent. Its main objective is to promote reflections on the socio-ecological challenges that Latin America has been facing, from comprehensive approaches that synthesize diverse knowledge and methodologies to be able to tackle the nature of complex problems. Therefore, RESACA aims to work on the study and generation of transdisciplinary co-creation methodologies, drawing on the collective wisdom and its power to promote transformative actions of public policies with sustainable approaches. RESACA is consolidated as a traveling laboratory that seeks to activate the circulation of knowledge between communities and those who work at the interface of humanistic and environmental knowledge, promoting empathy and critical thinking to understand, analyze and contribute to the search for solutions to problems.

START DATE

December 2018

MEMBERS

  • Adams Ceballos (Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Aquaculture, University of Concepción, Chile)

  • Alejandra González Soca (Department of Human Sciences, Universidad Católica, Uruguay; Faculty of Arts, National School of Fine Arts Institute, University of the Republic, Uruguay)

  • Ana Carolina Dias (School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada)

  • Mariana González Lago (Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

  • Mauricio Cheguhem Riani (Faculty of Philology, Literary Inscriptions of Science (ILICIA), University of Salamanca, Spain)

  • Sofía Rosa (Faculty of Arts, Environmental Humanities Network (RIHA), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)

  • Trilce Castillo (Research Institute at the Faculty of Political Science, UNR-CONICET, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, UNR, Rosario, Argentina)

ASSOCIATED MEMBERS

  • Alejandro Jaime (Faculty of Art and Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru)

  • Carolina Freitas (Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)

COLLABORATING GROUP

  • Esteban Jobbágy (Institute of Applied Mathematics San Luis, IMASL-CONICET, National University of San Luis, Argentina)

  • Jorge Marcone (Rutgers-New Brunswick University, USA)

  • Cristina Zurbriggen (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Uruguay)

RESOURCES

RESACA Manifesto (download PDF – Spanish only)

RESACA Network logo (download JPG)

CONTACT US

E-mail: resacalared@gmail.com