As we explained in the working characteristics outlined above, our intention was to view transducers as a means of approaching and working on the network-activation project. It is worth pointing out here that we not only sought to represent collective pedagogies or social processes in an exhibition, but also wanted to activate these pedagogies through a series of tools.

The scope of this project was therefore not just reduced to research, but also led to the organization of a series of seminars and workshops that could interweave working networks within Granada's context. (21) With that purpose in mind, we designed two seminars in which participating groups could make use of materials in the archive and work on them critically as case studies. The aim was to establish various proposals to be implemented during the course of the year.

The first seminar we conducted was Cultural Pedagogies: Collaborative Practices and Online Learning (2 to 23 March 2009), a seminar-workshop registered as a university outreach course, thus enabling Fine Arts and Architecture students to include the seminar in their degree studies (22). Members of social and neighborhood movements also took part in the seminar, thus enriching it by having local people contribute their life experiences. The seminar included invitations for a number of different speakers (on cultural policies, pedagogies, artistic intermediation and independent curatorship) to take part, and this gave rise to four possible/tentative projects designed by interdisciplinary groups to be implemented in 2010. In those projects emphasis was placed on working with networks, already active in the city and province of Granada, with which the groups were already familiar.

The second seminar was conducted in conjunction with laFundició, (23) a cooperative focusing on radical pedagogies, cultural production and public spaces. It was designed with professionals involved in formal education, and titled Work projects in visual culture and cultural pedagogy (17-25 November 2009). On this occasion we had the collaboration of the Granada Teacher Training Center, which accredited the seminar as an ongoing education course for teachers who took part in it. During the course, in addition to providing a theoretical and methodological foundation, several types of work were carried out at the kindergarten, primary and secondary levels and in art schools on the basis of established collaborations.

Lastly, for the exhibition opening, an international seminar, Cultural Negotiations: Articulating Collective Pedagogies and Spatial Policies (2-4 December 2009) was held by UNIAarteypensamiento. At this event we were able to present, in the form of public presentations-conferences, six of the international experiences listed in the project’s archive, while encouraging a dialogue between those experiences and three local ones. (24) At the same time, during the mornings a workshop on the internal workings of collective pedagogies at the state level was conducted in the Pedagogical Laboratory premises. More than 20 very different groups or state experiences gathered to discuss the political dimension of education and cultural production. This internal workshop gave rise to mappings exhibited during the exhibition. (25)

Those training experiences gave rise to work groups that during the past few months have been carrying out a number of decentralized local projects in the province of Granada as part of what we have named multipliers, (26) and which will continue throughout 2010. First, two experimental projects in collective pedagogies, both stemming from the teacher-training seminar, have taken shape as long-term projects.

-The first project, known as Rayuela de Colorines is working with an elementary school in the village of Jun that basically was appropriating a public village square through an educational process involving dialogue and exchange among the pupils of an elementary-level group. The coordinating group formed by a teacher, Mercedes Toro, the tras/hallARTE association and the architect Javier Moreno currently continues to work along those lines in conjunction with other social networks in the village, in order to carry out other actions in the square and spark a democratic debate to regenerate the space in a hands-on manner.

-The second project is being implemented in Motril, in a wetland area known as “Charca Suárez”. Developed by the Arts and Crafts School and coordinated by professors Emma Sierra and Juan Garcí­a, the project continues to work on public-space interventions on the state of the wetland and the possibilities of conducting artistic and cooperative work along anthropological lines. This year two aims have been proposed, each different in nature but pursuing the same end. The first being a study of textile work using enea and other plant fibers present in the wetland. Weaving with enea is a craft on the verge of extinction, and the group is introducing it into Textile Design courses at the Arts School through workshops given by the only remaining craftsman in the area. Secondly, this initiative aims to include the craft in the design of systems created to improve the wetland environment.

Secondly, in addition to those two projects we should add an endeavour in the village of Peligros, where a group formed during the first university seminar - subsequently joined by collaborators in various fields - has been carrying out research on local culinary culture and making an archive of recipes and traditional foodstuffs as part of a project called Retroalimentación (Feedback). This year the project is focusing on interviewing a number of experts to recover local knowledge in this area, in tandem with the recovery of a vegetable garden and a greenhouse given by the municipality to the project. There is a mapping of possible sites for the establishment of public gardens where local knowledge can be put to use through self-training in agro-ecological technologies and culture. These experiences are giving rise to virtual platforms used for consultation, as well as events to disseminate such information through presentations, mobile architecture set up in public spaces, fiestas, public lunches and various workshops, the long-term aim being to cultivate vegetable gardens as local spaces for recovering traditional working methods and for networking.