{"id":1699,"date":"2021-12-23T15:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/viraltimes.climateactionchildhood.net\/?page_id=1699"},"modified":"2022-07-13T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T20:28:36","slug":"san-joaquin-1-eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/viraltimes.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/gardens\/san-joaquin-1-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"San Joaquin of the Yanuncay Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Educator: Cristina Ochoa
Children: Isabela, Juan David, Noah, Juliana, Juli\u00e1n Emilio, Sof\u00eda & Juan Martin<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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San Joaquin\u2019s landscape presents two disparate or divergent worlds including the traditional agriculturally-based areas and the newly built modern homes often enclosed in gated communities. This is also the land of multiple generations of basket weavers and other traditional artisans who continue to make a living as their land is transformed aesthetically. San Joaquin is made out of the contrast that emerges in the encounter of these two worlds: the beautiful green farmland fields and the manicured home gardens. A short stroll brings us to the Yanuncay river which together with the Tomebamba river runs down from higher elevations in the Andes. It is commonly known as the least altered of the four rivers of Cuenca.\u00a0 However, at a closer look, the river is reconstructed with endless stone borders that channel water to the local farms and artisans. Through these channels, the river provides for communities in a multitude of ways. <\/h4><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The San Joaquin garden is adjacent to the Yanuncay river, which surrounds Cuenca. To get to the river, we, a group of children and teachers, exit the gated urban neighborhood (Villas del Rio) while observing the pristine, maintained gardens of the houses. We like to think of the exit gate as magical as the children routinely anthropomorphize it and ask for it to open when we depart the populated area. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We are drawn to witness how the relations with\u00a0stone structures, water and light contribute to the life\u00a0of the\u00a0Yanuncay.\u00a0 In between experimentations with light, water, stones and shadows we cultivate an attentiveness towards what is fluid and changeable. Together with the children we move between multiple encounters with the river and the simulations that such encounters inspired. As we do so, we encounter river light. At the same time, we engage in processes of making light which allow us to blur the lines between magic and reality, natural and unnatural, bodies and shadows. This project brings us close to pedagogical processes that experiment with\u00a0logics that are attentive to fluid properties of the river and light we are in relation with and dependent upon.<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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I can see the forest in the water as if it were a mirror<\/em>. – <\/strong>Isabela <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The water light on the log looks like flames. <\/em>– Juan Martin <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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