Category Archives: Everyday life

The four of us in the MANGO team are not only working together, we are also living together throughout the entire year of the project. Here we will tell you about the fun things that we do oustide of the office. Hopefully it will be just as sustainable and developing as the content of the work, allthough less theoretial :)

Mango: over and out?

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Dear faithful Mango-followers, the project “I have a Mango – a project to think, educate and act towards sustainable development” has now just a few days left. In practice this means that me and Kamilla (here in Colombia called “las Noruegas”) are leaving this magnificent country too soon:( but also it means that we get to look back on a wonderful experience. So, what on earth did we do? Ask any Mango participant, and they will respond: what on earth did we NOT do!? Here comes a short summery of what we have been occupied with from august to may:

Workshops in 11 different chapters in Norway. Topic: damn consumerism!

Meetings with external researchers, institutes, like-minded organizations (see external resources) and other fantastically commited individuals

The CISV Lunchbox! View here

Leader trainings in Bergen, Oslo, Bogotá and Medellín

Staffing and/or giving workshops in close to everything arranged in CISV Norway the fall of 2011 (kick-off seminar, NEO, Fall Meeting, etc)

Verden i Bergen/The world in Bergen project

Workshop, CISV promotion & fair in Baranquilla: “The charms of the backyard”

Content staff at Andinos in Ecuador

La Hora del Planeta/Earth Hour – CISV Colombia

RTF’s: TTT and ARC – Regional Training Forum and Americas Regional Conference (Incl. Common session about Sustainable development)

Tematic movie nights, attending lectures at the university of Oslo & participated in debates arranged by LAG (Latin-America Group)

2 Mosaic projects together with Fundación Conconcreto in Medellín

Parent’s Minicamp in Bogotá

Managing this blog, updating it averagely 2-3 times per week

Photo exhibition – Closura del Proyecto Mango. View invitation here

Creating external resources for everyone who wants to take it further with Sustainable development! View the resources here

General tasks on our “done list”:

Managing budget and accounting, all sorts of practicalities, keeping ourselves updated on sustainable development around the world, general information work, internal and external communication, meetings “opp og i mente” (esto significa un montón de reuniones), reading, writing articles, promoting CISV, etc etc.

We did a little sum up and roughly speaking the people that have met and that have hopefully somehow been influenced by one or several Mangos are: 1.215 people!

Still to come we have evaluations in Colombia and with LNU in Norway, a conference at the house of Literature in Oslo (together with SUM – Center for Development and the Environment), keep the blog running during the summer (so please keep it at your “favourites”!) and dont forget to keep your eyes open for the next group – Human Direction – working on the next focus area in CISV for 2013: Human Rights!

Mango exhibition wednsday 9th of May

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Tomorrow wednsday the 9th of May we in the I have a Mango invite you to the very last activity we have on our Mango program: the Mango closure exhibition! It wil take place in the CISV house in 38#55-18 and opens at 8pm. Here are a little taste of the preparations:

At the exhibit you can enjoy a glass of wine, some tasty fruits, take a look at the photographs from Bergen (Norway) and Bogotá (Colombia) and other exhibition factors that we have made for the occation. You are more than welcome to bring friends and family, in CISV and outside of CISV. Here you can meet a lot of interesting people and make new aquaintances. And: Of course the Mango group are in its totality ready to answer any questions you may have about the project and the topic of sustainable development.

Welcome!

 

Ecuador

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We are in Ecuador! Quito has so far given us a lot of sun, sightseeing, great food, less great coffee (I guess its just yet to find) and partying with awesome people. We have of course also been planning the upcoming event: Andinos 2012!

 

This years Andinos workshop will be arranged in Quito, Ecuador, with visitors from Peru and Colombia as well. Seeing that in our content staff we even have a Brazilian and two Norwegians we hereby declare this Andinos supermulticultural. Me and Kamilla are together with João from Brazil in charge of content, and we have been having much fun looking into the meaning of a JB role and the structure of JB, as well as digging into the content area of the year, our well known “Sustainable development”.

The topic sustainable development is, as we have been discussing all year through, a tricky one in terms of its wideness and its inherent contradictions. Also for the Andinan countries there is often a choice to be made; that of conservation of natural resources or that of economical development. We look forward to see how the young people at this JB gathering, tomorrows desicion makers, conseptualise this term and how they choose to incorporate the awareness around sustainable development in their future projects.

BOOK RECYCLING

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This is not a book. An amazing story about how to transform one piece of art into another.Vintage sewing book from "The Repurposed Library"

Lisa Occhipinti is an artist who has been working on painting, sculpture and photography. She has a very fresh and light aesthetic concept. But her latest accomplishment, has been her new book called “The Repurposed Library”, in this book, she shows that books can have decorative use as well.

In the book she explains how she has found books really special, not only the information they hold inside, but also their shape and all their materials.

She’s not encouraging people to destroy useful or beloved books, but what she means is that if you want to get rid of a book because it is obsolete, you are better of transforming it into something nice for your home, either you turn it into a shelf or into a  lamp, or whatever – just don’t throw it to the garbage. It can still be useful and beautiful.

She has been very creative turning books into other arts, and what she teaches us do in her book can resemble fossils, origami or even water-soaked books.

“This is a craft book, and the underlying statement I aimed to make is to enlighten people to the simple beauty that surrounds us, down to an old, dusty book with the worn corners.” I think this is a very good reminider, especially if you like me, think that it is very nice to have re-used, beautiful and useful things to be part of your home.