Afaloste. Convivencia al pil-pil Gastronomic-social laboratory 2018-2019

Afaloste is a gastronomic-social laboratory where a diverse and intergenerational group of people gather around a txoko or gastronomic society, eat and talk together about their personal experiences of the politically motivated violence suffered for decades in the Basque Country.

Both the Memorialab initiative and Afaloste are designed under an action-research approach. In a way, they link cycles of action and reflection that feed back into each other over the years (2013-2020).

his evolutionary approach has led Afaloste to emerge naturally from Memorialab, thanks to the support of the Forum of Associations working on Human Rights Education and Peace, in response to a social need.

The promoting organisations have been able to learn and adapt constantly, thus maintaining a permanent thread of research/action. This organisational learning has led to the implementation of innovative social initiatives that respond to the zeitgeist, such as Afaloste.

Iñigo Retolaza Eguren, Coordinator

Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia, Gernika Peace Museum

Rocío Salazar Torre, Bakeola-EDE Fundazioa

María Oianguren Idigoras, Gernika Gogoratuz

Publication prepared for the Forum of Associations working on Human Rights Education and Peace.

 

Edited by: Forum of Associations working on Human Rights Education and Peace.