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<\/a><\/p>\nBeing at Medellin, we had the opportunity to emerge in local communities and activities and met people from ruta n<\/a>, a local hub for supporting transformation processes mostly based on digital technologies. Ruta n fosters innovation ecosystems making an important contribution to the orange economy in Latam.<\/p>\n We also visited Moravia, an area with an outstanding community center and had the opportunity to talk to Cecilia, one of the community leaders not only sharing the story of how the building that was built by Rogelio Salmona<\/a> in close collaboration with the local community.<\/p>\n We had the chance to meet a lot of people in the barrio and at the Foundation\/Food Bank F. Saciar (tropical kitchen) where Cecilia gave an overview of entrepreneurship initiatives of the Foundation and during lunch with community, she introduced the Moravia manifesto to us, a result of the Urban Lab Medellin Berlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n In afternoon we had a walk through Comuna 13, led by Fredie, a young anthropologist that is deeply connected to this area.<\/p>\n On the second day, we had the opportunity to meet one of the more than 400.000 coffee farmers (organized in 211 cooperatives) and understood the production and distribution processes. I had to think of Dave Eggers book \u201eMonk of Mokkha\u201c<\/a> looking for ways to connect to support farmers really focusing on the (organic) quality of their products and connecting them to the customers – a topic we might address in the near future.<\/p>\n After a productive board meeting we had a strategy workshop the whole Monday focusing on the needs we see to proceed the work for Cumulus in addressing future needs and opportunities. We were able to leave Medellin with a sense of shared understanding and were excited to travel to Medellin for the Cumulus Conference The Design After of Universidad de Los Andes, convened by Faculdad de Arquitectura y Disegno.<\/p>\n Being there, we had a pre\u2014conference workshop led by Alok Nandi, President of ixDa about future collaborations between our associations, especially looking at the emerging DERdays (Design Education Research Days) with a conference to come in Beirut in the beginning of 2020.<\/p>\n During the conferences we had the opportunity to also work on our relations with the DESIS Labs and sorted out new opportunities – amongst many other conversations we had with colleagues and friends from all over the world.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>
This was a wonderful immersion for the new board to start their ambitious work.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
We had the chance to take the first official picture of the new CEB7\u00a0 at the terrace of<\/span> @ArqDisUA<\/a><\/span> @Uniandes<\/a><\/span> #cumulusBogota2019<\/a><\/span> #thedesignafter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
We left Bogota with a clear roadmap to be prepared for the work until our next board meeting February in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"scoped_notify_notify_others":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4572],"tags":[4595,4593,4594,4596,4592,4597],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cumulus","tag-board","tag-bogota","tag-ceb","tag-latam","tag-medellin","tag-moravia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.kisd.de\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}