La Anécdota’s first collaborative task was the proposal for Lorca’s reconstruction, which served as first practice experience. This first collaborative task served to reunite multiple voices from the different collaboration groups to generate a proposal.
The proposal was thought to be the beginning of a process for complex social and urban situation in Lorca. The competition bases stipulated an excessive technique condition, associated to seismic-resistant themes. From La Anécdota, it was thought that was an important issue, but not the only one. The project not only should focus in the physic and prefabric reconstruction, but also it should bear social and urban issues in mind in Lorca reconstruction.

In order to develop the reconstruction proposal, we worked with the specific situation of the disaster happened, by understanding the proposal as a chance to solve preexistent problems, and reflecting about possible ways of action: urban resilience, identity, solidarity, autonomy, confidence, economy reactivation, plug-in’s… that eventually were established as urban acupuncture strategies in a processus that proposed communication between the different agents.

In fifteen days – the time that last the processus for the competition first phase- a total of 67 people collaborated from all around the world, with different levels of implication, to contribute with ideas for Lorca.

We can assure now that we are capable of working with collective intelligence by using the capacity of relating global ideas with local context.

The initiative highlights a very important thing: due to social networks we are capable to share and be connected in a very fast way, opening a possibility field to deal with new ways of work in urban environments.

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