Bosque de Saberes

Cultivando un espacio colectivo

The Project

The project proposes the creation of an edible forest in Blanca, conceived as a living space for gathering, learning, and ecology. The forest, collectively designed, will host artistic, environmental, and community-based practices, combining traditional knowledge, scientific research, and artistic methodologies to foster ecological awareness, intergenerational dialogue, and social cohesion.

Actions around Bosque de Saberes

Edible forest: coordinated by Marco Ranieri, in collaboration with environmental scientists, conceived as the ecological core of the space and a model of sustainable biodiversity. It will also function as an open classroom involving secondary school students, who will apply knowledge from subjects such as Biology and Technology through hands-on engagement with planting, ecological monitoring and sustainable systems.

Craft knowledge recovery and Intergenerational exchange: facilitated by Irene Trapote, connecting young people with the traditional farmer and artisanal knowledge and techniques of the elders of Blanca, from cultivation techniques to handcrafted practices. The initiative fosters a two-way exchange in which ancestral skills and lived experience meet the freshness and creative thinking of younger generations, activating tradition as a living and evolving practice rather than a static memory.

The Space

Bosque de Saberes traces its origins back to 2023, when the artist Irene Trapote, together with a group of young people of Maghrebi origin, initiated the transformation of an urban vacant lot located between the Health Centre, the Senior Citizens’ Centre, and the Secondary School of Blanca.
In the project, the first elements of the space were designed through the reuse of recycled materials and the planting of trees, attracting the interest of various local institutions. Building on this experience, the idea of having a climatic island is now conceived as a broader process that brings together art, science, traditional knowledge, and citizen participation.

Art Creation & Context

The Region of Murcia has a young and diverse ecosystem, where education and an active cultural community foster the development of initiatives with artistic, social, and environmental impact.

In Blanca, in the Ricote Valley, an international community of artists and cultural agents has been working for over a decade around sustainability, territory, and collective experimentation, consolidating a context that is particularly receptive to these processes.

Within this framework, the project is developed as a meeting space between art, ecology, and community, strengthening networks of collaboration, promoting new forms of learning, and contributing to rethinking the relationship with the landscape and the environment from a contemporary perspective.

A project by AADK Spain
Facilitaror artists: Marco Ranieri e Irene Trapote
Facilitators advisors: Paloma Zamora Rodríguez y Félix Soriano