Spaces & Play-ces

Spaces & Places is an idea that was designed to invite any community interested in transforming spaces through art and game. Through this idea you can inhabit and encourage the enjoyment of some public space that has been abandoned, that presents a narrative of insecurity or violence, that is forgotten, or simply of a space that you want to transform.

Transforming spaces will make the population surrounding the intervened areas and organizations can inhabit them. In addition, it promotes recreational activities in the community in order to generate greater coexistence and development of motor skills and coexistence.

This idea was developed by Colectivo Tomate, a non-profit civil association that since 2009 generates and facilitates meeting and connection processes between people in communities in Mexico, with the aim of strengthening collective trust and their self-management capacities so that they trigger participation in the transformation of the environment, through our own methodology whose tools are dialogue, non-violent communication, participation and art. In this way we have verified and measured that trust between people creates the foundations for them to unite and for them to jointly build the transformation they want to see in their environment.