“care moves through another type of invisible abundance. They have to do with all practices that lead to the repair or maintenance of life. They are related to the simplest and most common. Giving food, providing warmth, producing well-being, maintaining conversation, listening to the unabated or unusual, offering care, feeling the future, experimenting with others, doing things together, enjoying nuances, monitoring processes and creating safe spaces.” Antonio Lafuente

In our ancestral agglomerations, care amalgamed health and collective life. This same care always had technological support, from the conversion of plants into healing foods and teas, to the linguistic constructions that maintain social substance.

Medicine and technology symbiotic advancement have increasingly transformed our health – and its care – into something that did not belong to oneself. It was up to techniques expert. Not care techniques experts, but on the technocratic apparatus that developed the market, investments and even cures.

The pandemic brought back a vision for health as dependent on personal care and, at the same time, community. Mutual care. Reciprocity and solidarity as fundamental elements of health against disease. From the use of traditional methods of immunological treatment to the collaborative production of personal protective equipment for professionals in the health sector, passing through collectives of community primary care to the paradigms of futuristic Latin narratives, what paths does pandemic catharsis present us? What are the possible destinations in a post-pandemic social planet, in the social, economic and environmental spheres? And what are our wishes, today, that guide this almost dystopian future?

We want to learn and further develop from the experience of responding to the pandemic that connected agents from the public, private sectors and civil society. We want to explore the times and their related actions and combine the past, the present and the future, in a digitalised living space.

Moderated by :

Georgia Nicolau is the co-founder and director at Instituto Procomum, an organization working for the commons. She is part of the Global Innovation Gathering since its foundation and is part of the supervisory board of the network.

Ricardo Ruiz Graduated in Social Communication, Master in Management of Local Sustainable Development from the Faculty of Sciences of Administration of Pernambuco at the University of Pernambuco. He is a researcher at the Productive Infrastructure and Logistics for Sustainable Local Development Nucleus (University of Pernambuco). He serves on the supervisory board of Global Innovation Gathering (Germany) and co-coordinate careables program in Latin America.

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