Day 7 | Atlas from ‘La isleta’

The Canary Islands received last year some 17 million tourists. “This is a perfect laboratory for building alternative projects to mass tourism,” says Manuel. “Ecotourism is a very small minority, but now some very interesting ideas are beginning to develop on the island,” explains Shanti. One of these emerging projects is the Atlas (Alternative Travel Local Association).

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Día 7 | Atlas de La Isleta

Las Islas Canarias recibieron el último año unos 17 millones de turistas. “Este es un laboratorio perfecto para construir proyectos alternativos al turismo de masas”, apunta Manuel. “El ecoturismo es algo muy minoritario aunque ahora empiezan a desarrollarse algunas ideas muy interesantes en la isla”, explica Shanti. Precisamente uno de estos proyectos emergentes es  la Asociación Atlas (Alternative Travel Local Association).

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Día 4 | Game VS Play y conexión Glocal

Jornada de trabajo interno. Por la mañana, se planificaron los talleres de la semana y arrancaron tres de ellos: Gobernanza, CivictechLab y CommoningLab.

Por la tarde, la sala de coworking de Atlas -la asociación de la calle Anzofé, en el corazón de La Isleta, que acoge esta edición del Glocal Camp 2018- ha sido el lugar donde se ha producido la conexión vía hangout con otros nodos de la red. “Tenemos que lograr una presencialidad a través de lo digital”, reflexionaba Mario, desde Alicante.

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Day 4 | Game VS Play and Glocal connection

Internal working day. In the morning, the workshops of the week were planned and three of them were started: Gobernace, CivictechLab and CommoningLab.

In the afternoon, the Atlas coworking room – the association of Anzofé Street, in the heart of La Isleta, which hosts this year’s Glocal Camp 2018 – was the place where the connection via hangout with other nodes of the network took place. “We have to achieve a presence through digital,” reflected Mario, from Alicante.

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Day 3 | Cohousing WTF

The Glocal Camp 2018 starts to be counter-programmed in an irremediable way. Today in the morning two meetings are being held simultaneously: BarriosLAB and HabitatLAB. The first focuses on the pooling of local projects and initiatives that work on activating the territories at the neighborhood level. Among them, Mestura Puerto (Fasebase), Islario (Panic Studio), both local projects of CivicWise in Canarias; Activa Orriols, Sembra Orriols, Factoría Cívica and Xarxa Oberta (Carpe) from Valencia, and Ovestlab from Modena.

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Día 3 | Cohousing WTF

El Glocal Camp 2018 empieza a contraprogramarse de manera irremediable. Hoy por la mañana se celebran de forma simultánea dos encuentros: BarriosLAB y HabitatLAB. El primero se centra en la puesta en común de proyectos e iniciativas locales que trabajen la activación del territorio a escalas de barrio o similares. Entre ellos, Mestura Puerto (Fasebase), Islario (Panic Studio), ambos proyectos locales de CivicWise; Activa Orriols, Sembra Orriols, Factoría Cívica y Xarxa Oberta (Carpe), desde València, y Ovestlab, desde Módena.

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Day 2 | Im(pulse) to participation in the Canary Islands

“From the peninsula you have another image of the islands: you don’t know or value the natural and architectural heritage that we have,” says María. She is from the technical team of participation from a neighborhood in the south of Gran Canaria. Her husband is a teacher and works up north. “Every morning we both leave the house dressed as if we were going to work in different countries,” he jokes. An example of the island’s contrasts.

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