Description
Public Culture
Research Project: Cochabamba Water War, Bolivia
Write a 2,000-word continuous paper, addressing each of these
questions through the narrative. Please be as concise and provocative with your
answers.
1. What are the main crises that prompted the creation of this project? Who
produced the problem, who was most affected by it? Add evidence, etc.
2. What is the main site of intervention? What are the physical and spatial
characteristics of the project, the context? In what ways was the place
transformed? A sort of before and after scenario?
3. Who are the main stakeholders, the institutions, the agencies that need to
collaborate to achieve this? What is the role of artists here, or of politicians, or
community activists? How does this inspire you to activate your own role as
a researcher, and enact social change?
4. What are the creative strategies that were conceptualized to tackle these
crises? What were the main steps that were taken to produce the project?
5. In what ways does this project benefit the larger public? In what way does this
project challenge the status quo? Why is this project unique, and instrumental to
reconstructing public thinking?
6. What is the main idea here that can be replicated, in other places? at different
scales? How would you propose to use the lessons of this project to challenge
existing policies, societal, environmental problems, etc.?
