- Implemented a one-year pilot project with a focus on literacy awareness targeting 500 households
- Led a team of 5 staff members and 10+ workshop facilitators with a $70,000 USD budget
- Created a Public Editorials Donation Network with the participation of private and public publishing houses, 30+ donors, and government institutions responsible for supplying 40 community libraries
Workshops consisted of a series of activities for all ages, with the goal of sharing participants stories through storytelling and book binding workshops directed by artist Lisa Torske. Later, these books were presented and displayed in several libraries across the city. Aditionally, the childrens area of two separate libraries were redesigned and further developed by zur-ich art colective.
Exhibitions of the books that were written and bound by 150 participants across the city were then presented in outdoor events at the Quito public libraries network. A final exhibition with the material developed during all of the workshops was presented at the Metropolitan Cultural Center of Quito. Participants of this event were able to create a collective book about local jargon.
Mural interventions were installed adjacent to the Quito public libraries to promote intergenerational literacy activities. Scavenger hunts were used to invited participants to search for clues in their community to complete a story that was written with fragments of information from their neighborhood. David Hinojosa was the typography artist who created a remarkable visual installation through using free hand calligraphy art for each of these murals.
Instructional guide for the storytelling and book binding workshop
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Lucía Garcés Dávila 