Citizens' LAB: BERDE Collective
BERDE is a collective for artistic creation and process development, aimed at people with functional and psychosocial diversity.
The aim of BERDE is to experiment with learning dynamics that enhance the individual and group skills of people with intellectual diversity and mental health problems, allowing creative expression in visual formats, with interrelation and cooperation being essential parameters that facilitate communication and help them to express their emotions or message through an artistic project.
This initiative is part of the Citizen Laboratories pilot project launched by LABoral Centro de Arte. These laboratories are spaces that provide hospitality, infrastructure, human resources and tools to develop artistic projects for collectives and communities that instil values and hybridise knowledge in the city, linked to mental health, disability, human rights, youth and music.
Thanks to these artistic projects, working communities are created that provide space for social inclusion and new models of learning and artistic production that improve life together.
Activity promoted and financed by the Government of the Principality of Asturias.