May Garcés
These are some of the projects that have consisted in collaborations, workshops and documents. All of them aim to share the knowledge I've gained, opportunities I've received while exploring my fields of interest.
2025 - Mural at University of Chile Hospital
We intervene public spaces within the Physical and Medical Rehabilitation service (2025), through a large informative mural that presents relevant content for the rehabilitation process of the users.
2023 - Existential questions & complexity Workshops for MF, Chile
Workshop at the Globalcitizenship conference of the Melton Foundation called: "Do we live in the same world?: existential questions & wicked problems"
The idea was to explore topics such as complexity, biases, and philosophy of science through questions that we as humanity have asked ourselves and answered (still trying to answer) through different areas: scientific, religious, environmental, etc.
2022 - SIETAR Conference, Malta
At the SIETAR conference the theme was "Rethinking Interculturality," and we invited participants to revisit the role of "interculturality" (or the dynamics involved in the co-construction and negotiation of meanings, attitudes, and perspectives during intercultural interactions) in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We emphasized the importance of interculturality actively being present and guiding these goals.
2021 - Leadership worshop for Palestinian NGO
I coordinated 10 workshops (2hrs each) every Saturday at 3pm Palestine time, from September 25th until December 11th. The topics were Self Care in Leadership, Systems thinking & Human Centered Design/ Design Thinking.
2018 - Cultural Identity Workshops for K.I. Art & Design Institute, Ghana
Coordinated logistics and content on educational workshops about ghanaian culture & history, touristic tours to Cape ciast castle and other monuments in Accra that reflected on black identity for foreigner groups.
2017 - "Mixed crop strategy to better soil usage and fire reduction"
This project began with at the PIA summit by D-lab MIT. This 2nd stage reached 12 communities in the Kintampo area, giving them cashew seedlings and teaching them how to make nurseries for the seeds. Big companies are buying land in the area and bringing machinery that leaves the local farmers behind. If they have highly valued crops like mature cashew trees they could be better prepared for long term trade and production along their current seasonal farming practices.
2016/2020/2023/2024 - Self-care & Creativity workshops - Amman, Jordan - Temuco & Stgo, Chile
Full day workshop on "Self -care, vicarious trauma & Creativity" for the staff of International Medical Corps who works in syrian refugee camps around the city of Irbid in the north of the country.
My focus was on creative processes (& specifically the flow state) and their role in the design of self-care strategies.
In Temuco we adapted the workshop for health workers during the pandemic and neighbors. In Santiago I worked with the Center for women group at the Huechuraba Municipality
2014 - 2016 Art knows no borders
Co-organized cooperative arts festivals focused on bringing diverse artists together to promote peace through environmental awareness.
Art Knows No Borders is an interdisciplinary arts/educational festival consisting of: *Live performances by professional musicians: Interactive dance events, Green/environmental art, Talks with environmental leaders, Visual arts workshops.
Focusing on cultural diplomacy, environmental sustainability, and peacebuilding, Art Knows No Borders aims to bring artists of multiple fields together in order to engage and support communities in the lower Negev.
JCC 2013 First Chilean Conference of Human Computer Interaction
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.”
― Terence McKenna
PUNCH! art empowered
aims to create events and actions that inspire, encourage, empower others to find their and enjoy their curiosity, through their personal practice of art so that we can improve selfreflection and mutual understanding. We work with artists from all walks, to explore concepts like Cultural Diplomacy and Globalcitizenship enhancing interdiciplinary cooperation.
This begun with the Attendance to the ICD Conference: The Power of Arts and Culture for Promoting Democracy and Global Peace
TEDxJenaParadies performance
"Internal Reflections for Global Actions".
How can we be global actors if we are not aware of our own acts? Do we know what determines our actions? Some questions have answers and some need more time and deeper reflection to figure out.
"Internal reflections for global actions" is an invitation to join Chilean artist May Garcés as she explores, via live action painting performance, thoughts about becoming citizens of the world.
Esencia Mapuche : Artistic Iniciative to explore the Mapuche Identity
Using a crowdfunding platform artists fund this project that consist in going to live in a mapuche community to then tell the unique stories they experience to challenge stereotypes in chilean media about the indigenous group.
Education Now: Understanding tensions in Global Education -China 2010
Through online conversations we explored the situation on education in 5 countries (India, China, Germany, USA & Chile) and then through an Interactive Session at Symposium China 2010 of the Melton Foundation. There we discussed the tensions and challenges, education faces in this century as stated in UNESCO documents.
Back in Chile we shared with the chilean community at De La Frontera University a sum up of these sessions and we discussed the same issues having now the help from real comments and opinions from students from each of those countries which were gathered in the sessions in China, to exemplify and have a broader understanding of this challenges.
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