{"id":236,"count":8,"description":"Esta es una Plaza began as a project in late 2008, driven by the initiative of a group of citizens\u2014mostly residents of the Lavapi\u00e9s neighborhood\u2014interested in making use of a vacant lot located at 24 Doctor Fourquet Street, which had remained unused for over thirty years.\r\n\r\nThe project gained momentum following the workshop Interventions in Empty Urban Spaces, organized by the Urbanaci\u00f3n collective in collaboration with La Casa Encendida and coordinated by Esterni from Milan. The specific action carried out during the workshop was to propose the transformation of the lot into a green space for alternative leisure and collective enjoyment. This proposal responded to the neighborhood\u2019s needs, identified through a study conducted at the time with local residents. During the brief workshop period, participants intervened in the lot by clearing out accumulated garbage and rubble and outlining some of the areas envisioned in the site's future development.\r\n\r\nThanks to the success of the initiative, the original core group\u2014comprising the workshop\u2019s participants, mostly architects, artists, and biologists\u2014along with other residents who had joined the process and were motivated to give the project greater reach and longevity, began the necessary procedures to obtain the official cession of the land from the Madrid City Council, the site\u2019s owner. The first step was to establish themselves as a Cultural Association under the project\u2019s existing name: Esta es una Plaza. Their goal was to turn this one-time action into a larger initiative, inspired by a desire to experiment with and develop a citizen-led, self-managed process in the spirit of similar initiatives that have emerged in cities around the world in recent decades. One key reference here is the Main Verte program.\r\n\r\nThe challenge of working together, voluntarily and in a coordinated way, to consolidate a collaborative space open to the public is today a reality. Through a series of interventions and activities over the years, the space has been transformed from a barren lot into a peaceful, green area that offers enjoyment for both children and adults\u2014providing an alternative form of recreation and a space for social gathering and coexistence. The project developed at Esta es una Plaza represents a more human and inclusive way of inhabiting the city, while also being environmentally conscious. It is a living and educational space that has gained recognition and interest from academic and cultural sectors, and that sees itself as a daily event built through self-reflection, participation, and consensus.\r\n\r\n1. Esta es una Plaza is the name of the lot where the project is located, the community that has formed around it, and the association that runs it.\r\n\r\n2. Main Verte is a program created by the Paris City Council to support the creation of community gardens through formal agreements between participants and the municipality.\r\n\r\n3. This movement emerged in the 1960s in New York, thanks to the inclusive and participatory policies of the city\u2019s Department of Parks and Recreation, and reached its peak during the severe fiscal crisis of the 1970s.\r\n\r\n4. These are publicly owned gardens open to anyone who wants to learn gardening.","link":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/venue\/esta-es-una-plaza\/","name":"\u00c9sta es una Plaza!","slug":"esta-es-una-plaza","taxonomy":"venue","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venue\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/venue"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/venue"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?venue=236"},{"href":"https:\/\/dev.azhr.tv\/proyector.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/screening?venue=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}