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On "Localized Care"

Localized Care

Collectives slowly adapt to their social, environmental, and societal surroundings to sustain their practice, engaging with local communities and public spaces in ways that reflect their flexibility as a form of care for their own community. Rather than one-sided solutions, they seek lasting compromises.

 

From the beginning, there was this really huge interaction with the neighborhood. So everything, like in Hafsa, was bigger in terms of community and space as well, because it was not only the studio space but also our relation to the streets. (El Warcha)

I believe that, um, as Tunisians, we have a different relationship towards the public space somehow. You can see it with the coffee shops. Just bringing a chair and sit in the parking lot. It is something that says a lot. (Interference Light Art)

It’s important to keep this what we are discussing, what we are feeling – energy, motivation – to people after us. (DEBO)