Building on their friendship of over fifteen years, miner Pretinha and anthropologist Marjo de Theije started to collaborate in a joint film project in Suriname in the course of 2022.
In July 2022, Pretinha and Marjo engaged in making a film project on gold lifeways in Suriname. A crew, under the guidance of film director Júlia Morim de Melo and Marjo de Theije, filmed at the garimpo (goldmine) with Pretinha and several of her Brazilian co-workers in the Brokopondo region of Suriname and in Paramaribo.
In June 2022, Sabine Luning and Nii Obodai teamed up with three miners of the mining community in Gbane in northern Ghana: Lamisi Yiwaali, Zakari Imrana, and Haruna Bashiru.
Together they discussed how the miners would like to portray their lives and mining worlds and wrote a film scenario together. They thought of scenes and narratives to show the place of mining in their lives, as well as their ambitions and perspectives on the future. Later they were joined by the filmmaker and director Gideon Vink and his close collaborator Massihoud Barry. They had come from Burkina to collaborate in making this film.
This has resulted in the 15-minute documentary entitled: ‘Gold Matters in Kejetia (Gbane, Ghana) – Future makers’.
All photos courtesy of Sabine Luning.
In August 2022 Sabine Luning collaborated with Benjamin Ampiah, Ebenezer Mannah, and Anthony Acquah to develop a script for filming the world of small-scale miners in Tarkwa.
Together they wanted to show how small-scale mining is intertwined with the history of this industrial mining town, how current gold mining practices involve collaborations between Ghanaians and Chinese, and how the government is trying to organize the small-scale mining sector.
Gideon Vink, Massihoud Barry, and Souleymane Drabo later joined from Burkina to collaborate in the actual filming.
This has resulted in the 15-minute documentary entitled: ‘Gold Matters in Tarkwa (Ghana) – Taking Small-Scale Mining to the Next Level’.
Photo: Sabine LuningPhoto: Sabine Luning
The AGENTS Project has produced a series of films called ‘People who transform’, in which local people in the Amazon were invited to produce short movies using their mobile phone to briefly tell us their local initiatives by answering the following questions:
what has been transformed?
who is transforming?
what are the outcomes?
how they keep their transformative process going?
The goal was to give visibility to sustainable initiatives developed by local populations in the region from more recent to long-term initiatives. The series includes initiatives related to timber and non-timber management, fishing management, organic agriculture, agroforestry in small-farms and traditional communities, oil production in indigenous communities, art and craft by women’s organizations, social technology for irrigation, learning-practice for education and a social fund to collective projects.
The films are introduced by Eduardo Brondizio and the full playlist can be accessed here.
For over two decades, Environment Support Group (ESG) has focussed on the emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and has been working with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. The approach has always been about finding viable and inclusive solutions to vexatious problems advocating deeply democratic processes that draw on intersectoral, interdisciplinary, intersectional experiences, knowledge and histories.
In ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work, a series of four webinars, participants drawn from diverse disciplines and sectors reflect on the sort of issues and concerns that have become systemic to urban governance and living, reflect on the initiatives of ESG in addressing them, and articulate ideas and imaginaries in constructing better futures, and of consequences if we were to not make such efforts.
This webinar involved two presentations: one contextualising the experience of the transformation of Subramanyapura in South Bangalore and ongoing efforts to accommodate complexities of providing housing for the urban poor while also protecting the water commons, presented by ESG, on the one hand, and on the other, experiences of inclusive urbanisms in praxis across Connecticut and in Northern Rhode Island, USA presented by Kathleen Dorgan, Architect and Urban Planner and practitioner of sustainable community participation. The presentations were followed by responses from each of our discussants and conversations followed based on a Q&A.
For over two decades, Environment Support Group (ESG) has focussed on the emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and has been working with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. The approach has always been about finding viable and inclusive solutions to vexatious problems advocating deeply democratic processes that draw on intersectoral, interdisciplinary, intersectional experiences, knowledge and histories.
In ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work, a series of four webinars, participants drawn from diverse disciplines and sectors reflect on the sort of issues and concerns that have become systemic to urban governance and living, reflect on the initiatives of ESG in addressing them, and articulate ideas and imaginaries in constructing better futures, and of consequences if we were to not make such efforts.
For over two decades, Environment Support Group (ESG) has focussed on the emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and has been working with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. The approach has always been about finding viable and inclusive solutions to vexatious problems advocating deeply democratic processes that draw on intersectoral, interdisciplinary, intersectional experiences, knowledge and histories.
In ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work, a series of four webinars, participants drawn from diverse disciplines and sectors reflect on the sort of issues and concerns that have become systemic to urban governance and living, reflect on the initiatives of ESG in addressing them, and articulate ideas and imaginaries in constructing better futures, and of consequences if we were to not make such efforts.
For over two decades, Environment Support Group (ESG) has focussed on the emerging urban environmental and socio-economic challenges and has been working with multiple communities, government agencies, academia, media, etc. The approach has always been about finding viable and inclusive solutions to vexatious problems advocating deeply democratic processes that draw on intersectoral, interdisciplinary, intersectional experiences, knowledge and histories.
In ESG Imaginaries to Make Cities Work, a series of four webinars, participants drawn from diverse disciplines and sectors reflect on the sort of issues and concerns that have become systemic to urban governance and living, reflect on the initiatives of ESG in addressing them, and articulate ideas and imaginaries in constructing better futures, and of consequences if we were to not make such efforts.
#NewCatchInTown, created by The Ministry of Mumbai’s Magic together with the TAPESTRY project and Bombay 61, shows a co-created solution from Mumbai’s oldest communities that has the potential to remove 5000kgs of rubbish every month from Mumbai’s creeks.
A detailed report elaborates on the participatory process through which this community-led and innovative solution evolved. It also shares recommendations focusing on introducing the goal of a clean and healthy creek as an agenda for the civic authorities, recognition of the role of the indigenous community and re-classification of nallahs as creeks, scaling up and proper implementation of the Net Filters Installation through multi-stakeholder collaboration, and stringent laws for sewage disposal.
This short documentary series was produced by the Waterproofing Data project to collect memories about floods that have impacted Rio Branco, Acre and São Paulo in Brazil. The videos are in Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles.
