community workshops · summer 2025talleres comunitarios · verano 2025

Saberes y Circuitos

wheredónde Axochiapan, MorelosAxochiapan, Morelos
whencuándo summer 2025verano 2025
formforma robotics, computing, hardwarerobótica, cómputo, hardware

Over 20 workshops in creative robotics, computing, and hardware with children and teenagers in Axochiapan, Morelos, over five weeks, built around local and ancestral knowledge. Más de 20 talleres de robótica, cómputo y hardware creativo con niños y adolescentes de tres pueblos del municipio de Axochiapan, Morelos, durante cinco semanas, construidos desde el saber local y ancestral.

Over five weeks in summer 2025, we ran more than 20 workshops in creative robotics, computing, and hardware with teenagers in Axochiapan, Morelos, working with the local Indigenous municipality. The programme was built along the way, together with students and cultural workers, and it put local and ancestral ways of knowing at the centre of the computing instead of treating them as an add-on.

The workshops introduced robotics and computational thinking through things that mattered locally, connecting technical skills to community needs and showing how computing can serve collective purposes.

Collective Milpa: Painting, Electronics and Binary Systems

One four-day workshop brought together cultural knowledge, visual arts, and electronics. Participants used the on and off states of an LED to understand binary, a first step toward a longer plan to build a collective computer that grows out of collective practice rather than apart from it.

Durante cinco semanas en el verano de 2025, hicimos más de 20 talleres de robótica, cómputo y hardware creativo con adolescentes en Axochiapan, Morelos, junto con el municipio indígena local. El programa se fue armando en el camino, con estudiantes y trabajadoras culturales, y puso el saber local y ancestral en el centro del cómputo, no como un agregado.

Los talleres introdujeron la robótica y el pensamiento computacional desde lo que importa localmente, conectando las habilidades técnicas con las necesidades de la comunidad y mostrando cómo el cómputo puede servir a fines colectivos.

Milpa Colectiva: Pintura, Electrónica y Sistemas Binarios

Un taller de cuatro días juntó saber cultural, artes visuales y electrónica. Las y los participantes usaron los estados de encendido y apagado de un LED para entender el binario, un primer paso hacia un plan más largo de construir una computadora colectiva que nazca de la práctica colectiva y no aparte de ella.

Painting Circuits

Pintura Circuito

Collective painting met circuitry, with participants drawing the connections and currents of a circuit as image as much as wiring.

La pintura colectiva se encontró con el circuito, con las y los participantes trazando las conexiones y corrientes de un circuito tanto como imagen como cableado.

Collective painting of circuit connections during the pintura circuito workshop
Participants painting the currents and connections of a circuit
Painting and wiring meeting on the same surface
Detail of the collective circuit painting
The group working on the painted circuit together
The finished collective painting of the circuit

Creative Robotics

Robótica Creativa

Hands on robotics sessions where teenagers built and programmed machines rooted in their own surroundings and questions.

Sesiones prácticas de robótica donde las y los adolescentes construyeron y programaron máquinas arraigadas en su propio entorno y sus preguntas.

Teenagers building robots during the creative robotics sessions
Hands on work assembling and programming a robot
Participants testing their machines
Robotics work rooted in the participants' own surroundings
A robot built during the workshops

Hidden Radios

Radios Escondidas

A session exploring radio and signal, where listening devices were built and tucked into the everyday spaces of the community.

Una sesión que exploró la radio y la señal, donde se construyeron dispositivos de escucha y se escondieron en los espacios cotidianos de la comunidad.

Building listening devices during the hidden radios session
A radio tucked into an everyday space of the community

micro:bit Sessions

Sesiones micro:bit

Working with micro:bit boards to introduce sensing, inputs and code through small, tangible projects.

Trabajo con placas micro:bit para introducir el sensado, las entradas y el código a través de pequeños proyectos tangibles.

Working with micro:bit boards to explore sensing and code
Participants programming their micro:bit projects
Small tangible projects built with micro:bits
A micro:bit session in progress
Micro:bit work from the summer workshops

Conductivity and Binary

Conductividad y Binario

Using the on and off states of an LED and the conductivity of everyday materials to make binary logic palpable by hand.

Usando los estados de encendido y apagado de un LED y la conductividad de materiales cotidianos para hacer palpable la lógica binaria con las manos.

Testing the conductivity of everyday materials with an LED
Making binary logic palpable by hand
Participants exploring on and off states with LEDs
Conductivity experiments during the binary sessions