Program
At CEENTAA we want to create a space for experimentation, which encourages critical reflection and joint action, to collectively rethink our positioning in the world and in relation to it.
To this end, we organize activities and events, which we develop with the support of professionals from various areas of thought and which meet the wishes of those who join us.
Thinking about our place in the the world implies reconciling ourselves with nature and seeing ourselves as part of it again. Agroforestry, as a model of regeneration and coexistence, proves to be a basis that will allow us to structure this thinking and the activities that accompany it. Therefore, we propose 4 thematic axes, which constitute fundamental concepts in an agroforestry, to serve as activation tools.
2024-2025
01.
Soil
Programming support: Alejandro Alonso Díaz
Soil is a complex living organism that performs essential environmental services for life on Earth. A healthy soil regulates the climate, transforms nutrients, concentrates and filters water, and sequesters carbon from the atmosphere. So why do we view it as inert matter? How can we look at the complexity of soil as an analogy for creating a common ground?
02.
Time
Programming support: André Barata
The time we experience in our daily lives is a construct that now forces us to constantly accelerate in order to supposedly increase productivity. What if our time went from being a machined construct to a natural perception? What would happen if we slowed down? What kind of time would this be and how could we relate to it and the meaning of life?
03.
Water
Programming support: Andreia Garcia
Water is life. But why do we take it for granted? Even when faced with the imminent scarcity of water, we live under the illusion that it is something we will always have access to. We think that by ignoring the threats they will disappear and to do so we create ways to remain under the illusion. Is this selfishness or a form of protection? Or is it rather a consequence of the idea conveyed by the dominant discourse that there is no alternative? The good news is that change is still possible.
04.
Body
Programming support: João dos Santos Martins
Rationalist thought created a split between the mind and the body, with the latter being seen as a machine. But the human body is a complex entity that is connected to all other beings and is the support on which culture and time are inscribed. The body contains both our identity and the material conditions of human existence, as well as our capacity for individual and collective agency. A body is all the stronger the more complex it is.
Share Ideas and Projects
This program aims to meet the wishes of the local population, as a way of building a community. If you live or work in Vila-Velha de Ródão (or near the municipality) and think that this project could contribute to a reflection on a subject that seems important to you or to a project that you would like to develop, please share it with us. Wishing is important.
To make contact easier, we have created this space, but join us at the events we organize and talk to us.