In collaboration with DukeEngage Colombia and the
Manantiales de Paz (Springs of Peace) community
Summer 2015
En colaboración con el programa DukeEngage Colombia y
la comunidad de Manantiales de paz
Verano 2015
By Tamera Marko
Reflections, Fall 2012
Por Tamera Marko
Reflections, Otoño 2012
This project is a multi-institutional, transnational collaboration between families, artists, academics, documentarians, students and faculty in the US and in Medellín. We collaborate with families who over the last 60 years have been building their communities in the city of Medellín. Thousands of these families came to Medellin because they were forced to flee their homes in rural communities due to violence. Families tell their own stories of resilience in their own words and images. As of 2015, we have documented 250 stories, and have archived over 7,000 hours of video, 10,000 photographs, and 1,000 pages of written-word text.
This is a collaboration between the First Year Writing Program and the Office of Service Learning and Community Action at Emerson College, DukeEngage Colombia at Duke University, Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Medellín, MIT, el AULA in Medellín, the Alcaldía de Medellín, the Secretaria de Bienestar Social, Programa Medellín Solidaria, Agencia de Cooperación e Inversión de Medellín y el Área Metropolitana.