The Tranvía Cero collective was founded in Quito (Ecuador) in 2002. The thrust of its work focuses on the democratization of processes, the production and circulation of artistic expressions, and the contextual use of public space from the standpoint of interrelating and connecting with a community.
Its work processes are integrated by various plastic, visual, and self-taught artists, designers, communicators and cultural facilitators. Tranvía Cero currently consists of Pablo X. Almeida, Pablo Ayala, Karina Cortez, Silvia Vimos and Samuel Tituaña, all of whom pursued art studies at the Universidad Central del Ecuador.
“Moravia Patent” is the collective’s proposal for MDE11, a process of art-community and collective construction in which produces maps and a “manual of innovations”.
Its development is being carried out with members of low-income groups with a view to meeting everyday survival needs: these range from waste disposal, to the use of basic services, decoration, and the use of public space and of natural resources.
Creative resources, their circulation in and impact on the community have been borne in mind on selecting those innovations.
The project works in the Moravia district and in Medellín’s Comuna 5, where round tables for work and discussion with community leaders will be the basis for establishing spaces for socialization to increase the amount of knowledge of the innovations selected.
The “manual of innovations” will represent and showcase the capacity for invention, creativity and innovation that low-income sectors have to develop all the time, but that in most cases is not recognized by business, industrial, academic and research sectors.
The linkage proposed by Tranvía Cero can be considered an initial tool for proposing public policies that will benefit their creators and the low-income sector in general.
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