2/25/2023 0 Comments Another word for field![]() ![]() As violence started to subside, people also needed to restore their sense of safety, to build community, and to regain pride in their hometown. ![]() Tarahumara women creating tumbleweed sculptures for the museum.Īround 2009, local government officials, as well as private citizens, created an initiative called Estrategia Todos Somos Juárez to devise and implement a plan for fighting crime, but even as it began to yield results, local community leaders knew it would take much more to build peace. The city was consumed by a wave of violence and crime, and the statistics were disturbing: 30 percent of businesses closed their doors due to extortion 86,000 jobs were lost 14,000 children became orphans around 300,000 inhabitants fled the city due to fear and insecurity in search of a safe haven and in 2010 alone, 3,766 homicides were reported. Back then, Ciudad Juárez was frequently in the news. La Rodadora Espacio Interactivo in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.Ĭiudad Juárez sits on the border between Mexico and the United States, is located in the middle of the Chihuahuan desert, is a home to 1.3 million people (most of them immigrants), and was the most violent place in the world from 2008 to 2010. Rodadora is the Spanish word for tumbleweed, and the museum was named after this desert plant when it opened its doors to the public in 2013 (fig. 1).Īt the heart of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico sits La Rodadora Espacio Interactivo, an interactive museum built for and by the people of this city. It is only a matter of time before it becomes unstoppable and ubiquitous, defying the odds and surpassing all kinds of obstacles, and planting something new and vibrant (fig. Carried by the wind, it spreads its seeds everywhere it goes. Only when it is mature enough does it detach from the ground. Before it starts rolling across the desert, it grows firmly and steadily on a spot that, despite seemingly adverse conditions, welcomes and nurtures that seed. Tumbleweed…it seems to be an iconic representation of aridness, of solitude, of infertile ground. You are probably forming a picture in your head right now of unbearable sun, endless dunes of sand, and that clichéd ball of tumbleweed, broken away from its roots and running astray. Think about the deserts of the Western United States…of Texas…of Mexico. Tumbleweed rolling across the Mexican desert. This article first appeared in the journal Exhibition (Fall 2022) Vol. Isabel Diez, Set David Solís Adame, and Gabriela Torres Ethics, Standards, and Professional Practices.Ethics, Standards and Professional Practices. ![]()
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